OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS Legislative Office Building, Room 5200 Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200 http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa sHB-5042 AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH CARE COST GROWTH. AMENDMENT LCO No.: 4982 File Copy No.: 56 House Calendar No.: 85 Primary Analyst: CP 4/27/22 Contributing Analyst(s): (NF) OFA Fiscal Note State Impact: None Municipal Impact: None Explanation The amendment strikes the underlying bill and its associated fiscal impact. This amendment, which expands the Office of Health Strategy’s (OHS) duties to include, among other things, setting annual health care cost growth benchmarks, health care quality benchmarks, and primary care spending targets, codifying provisions of Executive Order 5, does not result in a fiscal impact to OHS or municipalities. The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.