Bill Text: FL S1710 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public Employee Group Health Insurance [EPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-25 - Withdrawn from Community Affairs; Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means -SJ 00344; Withdrawn from further consideration -SJ 00344 [S1710 Detail]

Download: Florida-2010-S1710-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2010                                    SB 1710 
        
       By Senator Fasano 
       11-01584-10                                           20101710__ 
    1                        A bill to be entitled                       
    2         An act relating to public employee group health 
    3         insurance; amending s. 112.0801, F.S.; providing for 
    4         market determination of premium cost for health 
    5         insurance for retirees; requiring cost of continued 
    6         participation by retirees in insurance plans to be 
    7         paid by the retiree; authorizing employers to 
    8         segregate claims experience of the retiree group from 
    9         claims experience of active employees; authorizing 
   10         separate experience rating of retirees from active 
   11         employees; providing an effective date. 
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 112.0801, Florida 
   16  Statutes, is amended to read: 
   17         112.0801 Group insurance; participation by retired 
   18  employees.— 
   19         (1) Any state agency, county, municipality, special 
   20  district, community college, or district school board that which 
   21  provides life, health, accident, hospitalization, or annuity 
   22  insurance, or all of any kinds of such insurance, for its 
   23  officers and employees and their dependents upon a group 
   24  insurance plan or self-insurance plan shall allow all former 
   25  personnel who have retired prior to October 1, 1987, as well as 
   26  those who retire on or after such date, and their eligible 
   27  dependents, the option of continuing to participate in such 
   28  group insurance plan or self-insurance plan. Retirees and their 
   29  eligible dependents shall be offered the same health and 
   30  hospitalization insurance coverage as is offered to active 
   31  employees at a premium cost determined by the market of no more 
   32  than the premium cost applicable to active employees. For the 
   33  retired employees and their eligible dependents, the cost of any 
   34  such continued participation in any type of plan or any of the 
   35  cost thereof shall may be paid by the employer or by the retired 
   36  employees. To determine health and hospitalization plan costs, 
   37  the employer may segregate shall commingle the claims experience 
   38  of the retiree group from with the claims experience of the 
   39  active employees; and, for other types of coverage, the employer 
   40  may segregate commingle the claims experience of the retiree 
   41  group from with the claims experience of active employees. 
   42  Retirees covered under Medicare may be experience-rated 
   43  separately from the retirees not covered by Medicare and may be 
   44  experience-rated separately from active employees, provided that 
   45  the total premium does not exceed that of the active group and 
   46  coverage is basically the same as for the active group. 
   47         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.