Bill Text: MI SB0396 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Insurance; health; health insurance for surviving spouse and children of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty; provide for. Amends title of 2004 PA 46 (MCL 28.631 - 28.638) & adds sec. 4a.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-19 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0396 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2009-SB0396-Introduced.html
SENATE BILL No. 396
March 19, 2009, Introduced by Senators McMANUS, BROWN, KAHN and GARCIA and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.
A bill to amend 2004 PA 46, entitled
"Public safety officers benefit act,"
(MCL 28.631 to 28.638) by amending the title and by adding section
4a.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
TITLE
An act to provide compensation and other benefits to
dependents of public safety officers who are killed or who are
permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty; to create the
public safety officers benefit fund; to prescribe the duties and
responsibilities of certain state officers; and to make an
appropriation.
Sec. 4a. (1) For every law enforcement officer who has died in
the line of duty, the state shall provide the surviving spouse and
his or her dependents with health coverage comparable to the
coverage the law enforcement officer was receiving at the time of
his or her death. Coverage provided under this section shall cease
for the spouse should the spouse qualify for comparable health
coverage from another provider and for a dependent upon 1 of the
following, whichever is later:
(a) His or her eighteenth birthday.
(b) If the dependent is enrolled as a full-time student at an
accredited university or college, his or her twenty-fifth birthday.
(2) This section applies only to a law enforcement officer who
died in the line of duty between October 1, 2003 and August 1,
2007, and whose surviving spouse and dependent health coverage was
not continued by the public agency he or she served.
