HB 1025

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to public employee group health insurance;
3	amending s. 112.0801, F.S.; providing for market
4	determination of premium cost for health insurance for
5	retirees; requiring cost of continued participation by
6	retirees in insurance plans to be paid by the retiree;
7	authorizing employers to segregate claims experience of
8	the retiree group from claims experience of active
9	employees; authorizing separate experience rating of
10	retirees from active employees; providing an effective
11	date.
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13	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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15	Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 112.0801, Florida
16	Statutes, is amended to read:
17	112.0801  Group insurance; participation by retired
18	employees.-
19	(1)  Any state agency, county, municipality, special
20	district, community college, or district school board that which
21	provides life, health, accident, hospitalization, or annuity
22	insurance, or all of any kinds of such insurance, for its
23	officers and employees and their dependents upon a group
24	insurance plan or self-insurance plan shall allow all former
25	personnel who have retired prior to October 1, 1987, as well as
26	those who retire on or after such date, and their eligible
27	dependents, the option of continuing to participate in such
28	group insurance plan or self-insurance plan. Retirees and their
29	eligible dependents shall be offered the same health and
30	hospitalization insurance coverage as is offered to active
31	employees at a premium cost determined by the market of no more
32	than the premium cost applicable to active employees. For the
33	retired employees and their eligible dependents, the cost of any
34	such continued participation in any type of plan or any of the
35	cost thereof shall may be paid by the employer or by the retired
36	employees. To determine health and hospitalization plan costs,
37	the employer may segregate shall commingle the claims experience
38	of the retiree group from with the claims experience of the
39	active employees; and, for other types of coverage, the employer
40	may segregate commingle the claims experience of the retiree
41	group from with the claims experience of active employees.
42	Retirees covered under Medicare may be experience-rated
43	separately from the retirees not covered by Medicare and may be
44	experience-rated separately from active employees, provided that
45	the total premium does not exceed that of the active group and
46	coverage is basically the same as for the active group.
47	Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.

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