Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 60
                        Barcode 101336
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11  Senator Fasano moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 6, between lines 6 and 7,
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17         Section 2.  Section 112.0801, Florida Statutes, is
18  amended to read:
19         112.0801  Group insurance; participation by retired
20  employees.--
21         (1)  Any state agency, county, municipality, special
22  district, community college, or district school board which
23  provides life, health, accident, hospitalization, or annuity
24  insurance, or all of any kinds of such insurance, for its
25  officers and employees and their dependents upon a group
26  insurance plan or self-insurance plan shall allow all former
27  personnel who have retired prior to October 1, 1987, as well
28  as those who retire on or after such date, and their eligible
29  dependents, the option of continuing to participate in such
30  group insurance plan or self-insurance plan.  Retirees and
31  their eligible dependents shall be offered the same health and
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 60 Barcode 101336 1 hospitalization insurance coverage as is offered to active 2 employees at a premium cost of no more than the premium cost 3 applicable to active employees. For the retired employees and 4 their eligible dependents, the cost of any such continued 5 participation in any type of plan or any of the cost thereof 6 may be paid by the employer or by the retired employees. To 7 determine health and hospitalization plan costs, the employer 8 shall commingle the claims experience of the retiree group 9 with the claims experience of the active employees; and, for 10 other types of coverage, the employer may commingle the claims 11 experience of the retiree group with the claims experience of 12 active employees. Retirees covered under Medicare may be 13 experience-rated separately from the retirees not covered by 14 Medicare and from active employees, provided that the total 15 premium does not exceed that of the active group and coverage 16 is basically the same as for the active group. 17 (2) For the purposes of determining eligibility to 18 participate in group insurance under this section, the term 19 "retiree" means, with respect to a person who has retired 20 under the Florida Retirement System, a person who has retired 21 on or after reaching his or her normal retirement date, as 22 defined in s. 121.021. With respect to a person who has 23 retired under a state retirement system other than the Florida 24 Retirement System or a nonstate retirement system, the term 25 "retiree" includes any person who has retired on or after 26 reaching the normal retirement date as defined for that 27 system. 28 29 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 30 31 2 2:20 PM 04/28/05 s0060c1c-11-k9f
Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 60 Barcode 101336 1 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 2 And the title is amended as follows: 3 On page 1, line 11, after the semicolon, 4 5 insert: 6 amending s. 112.0801, F.S.; defining the term 7 "retiree" for purposes of determining 8 eligibility of public-employer retirement 9 system retirees to participate in group 10 insurance of the system's employees; 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3 2:20 PM 04/28/05 s0060c1c-11-k9f