Bill Text: MI HB4172 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; public service employment; public employee contribution to employer-provider health care benefits; increase. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-08 - Printed Bill Filed 02/03/2011 [HB4172 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2011-HB4172-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 4172

 

February 1, 2011, Introduced by Reps. Farrington, Forlini, Lund and McMillin and referred to the Committee on Government Operations.

 

     A bill to limit a public employer's portion of the cost of

 

health insurance benefits; and to provide for exceptions.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"publicly funded health insurance contribution act".

 

     Sec. 3. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Health insurance" means employee medical, dental, or

 

optical benefits.

 

     (b) "Public employer" means the state; a county, township,

 

village, city, school district, or other political subdivision of

 

the state; an authority; a public institution of higher education;

 

or any other entity jointly created by 2 or more public employers.

 

     Sec. 5. Except as otherwise provided in this act, beginning

 

October 1, 2011, a public employer that offers health insurance to

 

its employees or elected officials shall pay no more than 80% of

 

the premium or other cost of the health insurance plan for single-

 

person coverage and no more than 75% for 2-party, employee and

 

children, or full-family coverage.

 

     Sec. 7. If a collective bargaining agreement that is

 

inconsistent with section 5 is in effect for a group of employees

 

of a public employer on the effective date of this act, the

 

requirements of section 5 do not apply to that group of employees

 

until the collective bargaining agreement expires. The requirements

 

of section 5 apply to any extension or renewal of the agreement.

 

     Sec. 9. The requirements of section 5 apply to all public

 

employees to the greatest extent consistent with constitutionally

 

allocated powers. Accordingly, this act does not apply to employees

 

in the state classified service; to state police troopers and

 

sergeants, to the extent it would impair constitutionally protected

 

bargaining rights; or to university employees, to the extent that

 

it would interfere with constitutionally granted university

 

autonomy.