SB 365-1_ Filed 01/26/2006, 11:36

COMMITTEE REPORT




MADAM PRESIDENT:

    The Senate Committee on Appropriations, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 365, has had the same under consideration and begs leave to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that said bill be AMENDED as follows:

SOURCE: Page 1, line 1; (06)AM036501.1. -->     Page 1, delete lines 1 through 14.
    Page 2, line 2, after "2006" insert " , and before July 1, 2012".
    Page 2, line 9, delete "and".
    Page 2, line 11, after "seq." insert " ; and".
    Page 2, between lines 11 and 12, begin a new line block indented and insert:
        " (4) who is not an officer or agent eligible to participate in a plan under section 6 of this chapter.".
    Page 2, line 14, delete "." and insert " , except that the plan offered under this subsection covers only the:
        (1) retired state employee; and
        (2) spouse of the retired state employee.
However, the plan offered under this subsection does not cover the spouse of a retired state employee for any period that the spouse is eligible for health care benefits from the spouse's employer or from Medicare.
".
    Page 2, line 15, after "and" insert " , subject to subsection (b),".
    Page 2, line 18, after "to" insert " one hundred fifty percent (150%) of".
    Page 2, delete lines 23 through 25.
    Page 2, line 26, delete "Except as provided in subsection (f), a" and

insert " A".
    Page 2, line 33, delete "Eligibility" and insert " Subject to subsection (b), eligibility".
    Page 2, line 39, delete "Except as provided in subsection (f), when" and insert " When".
    Page 3, delete lines 5 through 15.
    Page 4, line 21, after "law," insert " the state may establish a program under which".
    Page 4, line 21, after "state" insert " or state employees".
    Page 4, line 23, delete "employee" and insert " health care".
    Renumber all SECTIONS consecutively.
    (Reference is to SB 365 as introduced.)

and when so amended that said bill do pass .

Committee Vote: Yeas 8, Nays 0.

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Senator Meeks, Chairperson


AM 036501/DI 44    2006