Bill Text: IN HB1114 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Health coverage for certain disabled officers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-12 - Representative Barnes added as coauthor [HB1114 Detail]
Download: Indiana-2010-HB1114-Introduced.html
Citations Affected: IC 5-10-8-2.3.
Synopsis: Health coverage for certain disabled officers. Requires a
local government unit that employs an individual as a police officer,
county police officer, or sheriff who is disabled in the line of duty to
offer to provide and pay for certain health coverage for the individual
and the individual's spouse, surviving spouse, and certain children.
Effective: July 1, 2010.
January 5, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Veterans Affairs and Public
Safety.
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(b) As used in this section, "disabled in the line of duty" refers to a disability that occurs as a direct result of personal injury or illness caused by incident, accident, or violence that results from any action that an individual in the individual's capacity as a public safety employee:
(1) is obligated or authorized by rule, regulation, condition of employment or service, or law to perform; or
(2) performs in the course of controlling or reducing crime or enforcing the criminal law.
The term includes a disability presumed incurred in the line of duty under IC 5-10-13.
(c) As used in this section, "public safety employee" means a
full-time police officer, county police officer, or sheriff.
(d) A local unit public employer that employs a public safety
employee who is disabled in the line of duty shall, after June 30,
2010, offer to provide and pay for health insurance coverage for:
(1) the public safety employee;
(2) the public safety employee's spouse or surviving spouse;
and
(3) each natural child, stepchild, or adopted child of the public
safety employee:
(A) until the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age;
(B) until the child becomes twenty-three (23) years of age
if the child is enrolled in and regularly attending a
secondary school or is a full-time student at an accredited
college or university; or
(C) during the entire period of the child's physical or
mental disability;
whichever period is longest. If group health insurance coverage is
offered by the local unit to active public safety employees under
section 2.2 of this chapter, the health insurance provided under this
section must be equal in coverage to that offered to active public
safety employees. The offer to provide and pay for health insurance
coverage must remain open for as long as the public safety
employee, spouse, surviving spouse, or child of the public safety
employee is eligible for the coverage under subsection (e), (f), (g),
or (h).
(e) A public safety employee's eligibility under this section ends
on the earliest of the following:
(1) When the public safety employee is no longer disabled.
(2) When the public safety employee is eligible for Medicare
coverage as prescribed by 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.
(3) When the local unit terminates the health insurance
program for active public safety employees.
(f) A spouse's eligibility under this section ends on the earliest
of the following:
(1) When the public safety employee is no longer disabled.
(2) When the spouse is eligible for Medicare coverage as
prescribed by 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.
(3) When the local unit terminates the health insurance
program for active public safety employees.
(g) A surviving spouse's eligibility under this section ends on the
earliest of the following:
(1) When the surviving spouse is eligible for Medicare
coverage as prescribed by 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.
(2) When the local unit terminates the health insurance
program for active public safety employees.
(3) On the date of the surviving spouse's remarriage.
(h) A child's eligibility under this section ends on the earliest of
the following:
(1) When the public safety employee is alive and no longer
disabled.
(2) When the child is eligible for Medicare coverage as
prescribed by 42 U.S.C. 1395 et seq.
(3) When the local unit terminates the health insurance
program for active public safety employees.
(4) When the child no longer meets the criteria set forth in
subsection (d)(3).
