school employees; state
health insurance
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Committee on Retirement & Government Operations |
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Committee on Appropriations |
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Caucus and COW |
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As Passed the House |
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HB 2243 allows all school districts and community college districts to participate in the state health and accident insurance program.
Current law requires that a school district be comprised of five hundred or fewer full-time employees to be eligible for the Department of Administration’s (DOA) health and accident insurance coverage. DOA is required to allow school districts meeting set requirements to participate in the state coverage.
DOA is required to determine the administrative costs associated with the districts’ involvement in the plan and shall allocate these costs based on the number of total statewide employees participating in the coverage. Records shall be maintained by insurance providers delineating claims and costs attributable to the participating districts and shall report these findings to DOA by November 1 of each year. The report shall include the impact of districts’ participation in the state plan and the director of DOA is required to provide this information to the legislature by December 1 of each year.
Upon determining that state health and accident insurance coverage is in the best interest of their employees, eligible districts may allow their employees to participate in state coverage. It is required that state coverage be the sole coverage offered to the school district employees if they participate in the state plan. Upon electing to participate in the plan, the governing body shall notify DOA by January 15 prior to the year the employees will receive coverage. All entities electing to participate must do so for at least two years and must accept all conditions of the plan determined by DOA and must accept all contractual arrangements with providers. Finally, participating governing bodies must reimburse DOA for all operational costs associated with their participation in state coverage.