Bill Text: NJ A1880 | 2022-2023 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits school districts from entering contracts with contracted service provider unless employees providing services under contract are offered certain health care benefits coverage.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-11 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Education Committee [A1880 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2022-A1880-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 1880

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

220th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2022 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  THOMAS P. GIBLIN

District 34 (Essex and Passaic)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits school districts from entering contracts with contracted service provider unless employees providing services under contract are offered certain health care benefits coverage.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning public school contracts and supplementing chapter 18A of Title 18A of the New Jersey Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A school district shall not enter into a contract with a contracted service provider unless the contracted service provider offers health care benefits coverage for individuals employed no less than 25 hours per week in performance of the contract.  The health care benefits shall offer coverage that exceeds the definition of silver level, as defined in section 1302 of "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act" (42 U.S.C. s.18022), and the employee's contribution shall be no more than 20 percent of the cost of the coverage.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     This bill would prohibit a school district from entering a contract with a contracted service provider unless the contracted service provider offers health care benefits coverage to its employees who are performing work under the contract, provided the employees are working for at least 25 hours per week under the contract.  The bill also stipulates that the coverage would have to exceed the definition of silver level under the federal "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."  In addition, the employee would not be required to contribute more than 20 percent of the cost of the coverage.