Introduced Version






SENATE BILL No. 475

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



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.





Schneider, Yoder




    January 13, 2011, read first time and referred to Committee on Insurance and Financial Institutions.







Introduced

First Regular Session 117th General Assembly (2011)


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SENATE BILL No. 475



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 5-10-8-7; (11)IN0475.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 5-10-8-7, AS AMENDED BY P.L.2-2007, SECTION 82, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2011]: Sec. 7. (a) The state, excluding state educational institutions, may not purchase or maintain a policy of group insurance, except:
        (1) life insurance for the state's employees;
        (2) long term care insurance under a long term care insurance policy (as defined in IC 27-8-12-5), for the state's employees;
        (3) an accident and sickness insurance policy (as defined in IC 27-8-5.6-1) that covers individuals to whom coverage is provided by a local unit under section 6.6 of this chapter; or
        (4) an insurance policy that provides coverage that supplements coverage provided under a United States military health care plan.
    (b) With the consent of the governor, the state personnel department may establish self-insurance programs to provide group insurance other than life or long term care insurance for state employees and retired state employees. The state personnel department may contract with a

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.