Citations Affected: IC 5-10-8-7.
Synopsis: Public employee health plan eligibility. Specifies that
coverage under state employee and state educational institution health
plans is available to certain individuals.
Effective: July 1, 2011.
January 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial
Institutions.
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state
and local administration.
private agency, business firm, limited liability company, or corporation
for administrative services. A commission may not be paid for the
placement of the contract. The department may require, as part of a
contract for administrative services, that the provider of the
administrative services offer to an employee terminating state
employment the option to purchase, without evidence of insurability,
an individual policy of insurance.
(c) Notwithstanding subsection (a), with the consent of the
governor, the state personnel department may contract for health
services for state employees and individuals to whom coverage is
provided by a local unit under section 6.6 of this chapter through one
(1) or more prepaid health care delivery plans.
(d) The state personnel department shall adopt rules under IC 4-22-2
to establish long term and short term disability plans for state
employees (except employees who hold elected offices (as defined by
IC 3-5-2-17)). The plans adopted under this subsection may include
any provisions the department considers necessary and proper and
must:
(1) require participation in the plan by employees with six (6)
months of continuous, full-time service;
(2) require an employee to make a contribution to the plan in the
form of a payroll deduction;
(3) require that an employee's benefits under the short term
disability plan be subject to a thirty (30) day elimination period
and that benefits under the long term plan be subject to a six (6)
month elimination period;
(4) prohibit the termination of an employee who is eligible for
benefits under the plan;
(5) provide, after a seven (7) day elimination period, eighty
percent (80%) of base biweekly wages for an employee disabled
by injuries resulting from tortious acts, as distinguished from
passive negligence, that occur within the employee's scope of
state employment;
(6) provide that an employee's benefits under the plan may be
reduced, dollar for dollar, if the employee derives income from:
(A) Social Security;
(B) the public employees' retirement fund;
(C) the Indiana state teachers' retirement fund;
(D) pension disability;
(E) worker's compensation;
(F) benefits provided from another employer's group plan; or
(G) remuneration for employment entered into after the
disability was incurred.
(The department of state revenue and the department of workforce
development shall cooperate with the state personnel department
to confirm that an employee has disclosed complete and accurate
information necessary to administer subdivision (6).)
(7) provide that an employee will not receive benefits under the
plan for a disability resulting from causes specified in the rules;
and
(8) provide that, if an employee refuses to:
(A) accept work assignments appropriate to the employee's
medical condition;
(B) submit information necessary for claim administration; or
(C) submit to examinations by designated physicians;
the employee forfeits benefits under the plan.
(e) This section does not affect insurance for retirees under
IC 5-10.3 or IC 5-10.4.
(f) The state may pay part of the cost of self-insurance or prepaid
health care delivery plans for its employees.
(g) A state agency may not provide any insurance benefits to its
employees that are not generally available to other state employees,
unless specifically authorized by law.
(h) The state may pay a part of the cost of group medical and life
coverage for its employees.
(i) Coverage under any of the following is not available to an
individual other than an employee who is covered under the
program or contract and the spouse and children of the employee:
(1) A self-insurance program established under subsection (b)
to provide group health coverage.
(2) A contract with a prepaid health care delivery plan
entered into by the state personnel department under
subsection (c).
(3) A health benefit program through which a state
educational institution provides coverage for health care
services rendered to employees of the state educational
institution.