Bill Text: MI HB4700 | 2011-2012 | 96th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Education; school districts; certain requirements regarding disclosure of information for certain public schools that provide medical benefit plans for employees; provide for. Amends 1976 PA 451 (MCL 380.1 - 380.1852) by adding sec. 1255a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 14-0)
Status: (Passed) 2011-07-27 - Assigned Pa 95'11 With Immediate Effect [HB4700 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2011-HB4700-Chaptered.html
Act No. 95
Public Acts of 2011
Approved by the Governor
July 15, 2011
Filed with the Secretary of State
July 15, 2011
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 15, 2011
STATE OF MICHIGAN
96TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2011
Introduced by Reps. Shaughnessy, Crawford, Foster, Haines, Hooker, Knollenberg, Kowall, MacMaster, McMillin, Opsommer, Potvin, Price, Scott and Yonker
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4700
AN ACT to amend 1976 PA 451, entitled “An act to provide a system of public instruction and elementary and secondary schools; to revise, consolidate, and clarify the laws relating to elementary and secondary education; to provide for the organization, regulation, and maintenance of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to prescribe rights, powers, duties, and privileges of schools, school districts, public school academies, intermediate school districts, and other public school entities; to provide for the regulation of school teachers and certain other school employees; to provide for school elections and to prescribe powers and duties with respect thereto; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes; to provide for the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; to establish a fund and provide for expenditures from that fund; to provide for and prescribe the powers and duties of certain state departments, the state board of education, and certain other boards and officials; to provide for licensure of boarding schools; to prescribe penalties; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” (MCL 380.1 to 380.1852) by adding section 1255a.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 1255a. (1) If a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy has 100 or more employees in a medical benefit plan, or participates in an arrangement or letter of intent described in section 15(2) of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85, for a medical benefit plan for 100 or more public employees, the board of the school district or intermediate school district or board of directors of the public school academy shall not enter into a contract for that medical benefit plan unless the contract provides for 1 of the following:
(a) That the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy is a policyholder for the medical benefit plan and, at all times during the period of the contract, the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy will have access by electronic means to at least all of the claims utilization and cost information described in section 15 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85.
(b) That, within 10 business days after making a written request, the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy will be given access by electronic means to at least all of the claims utilization and cost information described in section 15 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.85.
(2) For a medical benefit plan provided by a school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy for fewer than 100 employees, subsection (1) does not affect the ability of the school district, intermediate school district, or public school academy to be a policyholder for the medical benefit plan.
(3) As used in this section, “medical benefit plan” means that term as defined in section 3 of the public employees health benefit act, 2007 PA 106, MCL 124.73.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
