H190 - State Health Plan Modifications (SL 2015-100)

Overview: S.L. 2015-100 makes a number of modifications to the State Health Plan, including:

• Amends the statute pertaining to enrollment to allow retirees and surviving spouses to disenroll themselves or their dependents from the Plan during the Plan year without a qualifying event.
• Amends the statute to provide that coverage ceases on the earliest of the last day of the month or as soon thereafter as administratively feasible, in which the Plan approves cancellation of coverage for an employee or retired employee.
• Adds "employees eligible for coverage on a noncontributory basis" to the statute pertaining to partially contributory coverage.
• Provides eligibility for coverage under the Plan on a fully contributory basis to Disability Income Plan Beneficiaries.
• Removes some references to preexisting conditions and waiting periods from eligibility provisions.
• Adds "other contributory basis" to enrollment language pertaining to new employees that must be given the opportunity to enroll or decline enrollment for themselves and their dependents within 30 days from the date of employment or from first becoming eligible on a partially contributory or other contributory basis.

This act became effective July 1, 2015.