Bill Text: TX HB1441 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to reenrollment of certain retirees in the Texas Public School Employees Group Insurance Program.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-27 - Referred to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services [HB1441 Detail]

Download: Texas-2019-HB1441-Introduced.html

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86R7353 LED-D
By: Tinderholt H.B. No. 1441

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to reenrollment of certain retirees in the Texas Public
School Employees Group Insurance Program.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1575.161, Insurance Code, is amended by
adding Subsections (b) and (c) to read as follows:
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), the trustee by rule
shall provide one opportunity to reenroll in a health benefit plan
offered under the group program for an otherwise eligible retiree:
(1) who is eligible to enroll in Medicare;
(2) whose initial enrollment was voluntarily
terminated on or after September 1, 2017, and on or before January
1, 2020; and
(3) who opts to reenroll on or before December 31,
2023.
(c) Subsection (b) and this subsection expire September 1,
2024.
SECTION 2. (a) Not later than November 1, 2019, the Teacher
Retirement System of Texas shall adopt rules necessary to implement
Section 1575.161(b), Insurance Code, as added by this Act.
(b) Rules adopted by the Teacher Retirement System of Texas
under Section 1575.161(b), Insurance Code, as added by this Act,
must apply to a retiree described by that subsection, regardless of
whether the termination of the retiree's initial enrollment
occurred before, on, or after the effective date of the rules or
this Act.
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2019.