HB 1025

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


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