Bill Text: OR HB3478 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to benefit plans provided to certain educational employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HB3478 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HB3478-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

NOTE:  Matter within  { +  braces and plus signs + } in an
amended section is new. Matter within  { -  braces and minus
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LC 3179

                         House Bill 3478

Sponsored by Representative JOHNSON; Representatives BREWER,
  PARRISH, SHEEHAN, Senator THOMSEN

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Authorizes school and education service districts that have
access to or enforceable proposals for benefit plans that provide
health, dental and vision benefits and are comparable to and have
premiums equal to or less than premiums for comparable benefit
plans offered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board to provide
benefit plans for employees that are not provided and
administered by board.
  Prohibits districts that elect not to offer benefit plans
provided and administered by board from offering benefit plans
provided and administered by board for three years from date of
election.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to benefit plans provided to certain educational
  employees; amending ORS 243.886.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1. ORS 243.886 is amended to read:
  243.886. (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of
this section:
  (a) A district may not provide or contract for a benefit plan
unless the benefit plan is provided and administered by the
Oregon Educators Benefit Board under ORS 243.860 to 243.886; and
  (b) Eligible employees of a district may participate only in
benefit plans provided and administered by the board.
  (2)(a) Except for community college districts, a district that
was self-insured before January 1, 2007, or a district that had
an independent health insurance trust established and functioning
before January 1, 2007, may provide or contract for benefit plans
other than benefit plans provided and administered by the board
if the premiums for the benefit plans provided or contracted for
by the district are equal to or less than the premiums for
comparable benefit plans provided and administered by the board.
  (b) A community college district may provide or contract for
benefit plans other than benefit plans provided and administered
by the board.
  (c) In accordance with procedures adopted by the board to
extend benefit plan coverage under ORS 243.864 to 243.874 to
eligible employees of a self-insured district, a district with an
independent health insurance trust or a community college
district, these districts may choose to offer benefit plans that
are provided and administered by the board. Once employees of a
district participate in benefit plans provided and administered
by the board, the district may not thereafter provide or contract
for benefit plans other than those provided and administered by
the board.
  (3)(a) A district that has not offered benefit plans provided
and administered by the board before June 23, 2009, may provide
or contract for benefit plans other than benefit plans provided
and administered by the board if the premiums for the benefit
plans provided or contracted for by the district are equal to or
less than the premiums for comparable benefit plans provided and
administered by the board. Once employees of a district or an
employee group within a district participates in benefit plans
provided and administered by the board, the district may not
thereafter provide or contract for benefit plans for those
employees or employee groups other than those provided and
administered by the board.
  (b) To maintain the exception created in  { + paragraph (a)
of + } this subsection, the board must perform an actuarial
analysis of the district at least once every two years. If
requested by the district or a labor organization representing
eligible employees of the district, the board shall perform the
actuarial analysis annually.
   { +  (c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subsection, a
district may provide or contract for benefit plans that provide
health, dental and vision benefits other than those benefit plans
provided and administered by the board that provide health,
dental and vision benefits if the district has access to or
enforceable proposals for benefit plans that provide health,
dental and vision benefits that have been determined by the
district to have premiums that are equal to or less than the
premiums for comparable benefit plans provided and administered
by the board. A district that elects to offer benefit plans that
offer health, dental and vision benefits other than those benefit
plans provided and administered by the board may not participate
in the benefit plans provided and administered by the board for a
minimum of three years from the date the district elects to offer
benefit plans other than those benefit plans provided and
administered by the board. + }
    { - (c) - }   { + (d) + } As used in this subsection,
'district' does not include a community college district.
  (4) Nothing in ORS 243.860 to 243.886 may be construed to
expand or contract collective bargaining rights or collective
bargaining obligations.
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