Bill Title: To require the Department of Administrative Services to create a health insurance program that allows municipal corporations, small employers, and nonprofit corporations or associations to purchase for their employees the same policies or contracts provided to state employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-10 - To Insurance, Commerce, & Labor
[SB34 Detail]Download: Ohio-2009-SB34-Introduced.html
As Introduced
| 128th General Assembly | | Regular Session | | 2009-2010 |
| |
Cosponsors:
Senators Turner, Roberts, Miller, R., Fedor, Sawyer
A BILL
| To enact section 124.824 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
|
require the Department of Administrative Services | 2 |
|
to create a health insurance program that allows | 3 |
|
municipal corporations, small employers, and | 4 |
|
nonprofit corporations or associations to purchase | 5 |
|
for their employees the same policies or contracts | 6 |
|
provided to state employees. | 7 |
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO:
| Section 1. That section 124.824 of the Revised Code be | 8 |
|
enacted to read as follows: | 9 |
| Sec. 124.824. (A) As used in this section: | 10 |
| (1) "Eligible employee" means an employee employed in this | 11 |
|
state who works a normal work week of twenty-five or more hours | 12 |
|
and at least forty weeks per year. "Eligible employee" does not | 13 |
|
include a temporary or substitute employee, or a seasonal employee | 14 |
|
who works only part of the calendar year on the basis of natural | 15 |
|
or suitable times or circumstances. | 16 |
| (2) "Small employer" means an employer who employed an | 17 |
|
average of not more than five hundred eligible employees in this | 18 |
|
state on business days during the preceding calendar year and who | 19 |
|
employs not more than five hundred eligible employees on the first | 20 |
|
day of the plan year. | 21 |
| (B) Not later than six months after the effective date of | 22 |
|
this section, the department of administrative services shall | 23 |
|
implement and administer a health insurance program whereby small | 24 |
|
employers, nonprofit corporations or associations, and legislative | 25 |
|
authorities of municipal corporations may purchase from the | 26 |
|
department insurance coverage for their eligible employees under | 27 |
|
policies or contracts for which the department has contracted | 28 |
|
under division (A) or (B) of section 124.82 of the Revised Code. | 29 |
|
The department shall charge small employers, nonprofit | 30 |
|
corporations or associations, and legislative authorities of | 31 |
|
municipal corporations the entire amount of the premiums or costs | 32 |
|
for coverage and, in addition, may charge a fee for administering | 33 |
|
the program. The department shall ensure that the program is | 34 |
|
actuarially sound. | 35 |
| (C) Nothing in this section prohibits a small employer, | 36 |
|
nonprofit corporation or association, or legislative authority of | 37 |
|
a municipal corporation from charging eligible employees for all | 38 |
|
or any portion of the costs of coverage purchased under this | 39 |
|
section. | 40 |
| (D) The director of administrative services shall adopt rules | 41 |
|
under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code for implementing and | 42 |
|
administering the health insurance program required by this | 43 |
|
section. The rules shall
include any provisions the director | 44 |
|
considers necessary to carry
out the program, including rules | 45 |
|
that
establish procedures by which small employers, nonprofit | 46 |
|
corporations or associations, and legislative authorities of | 47 |
|
municipal corporations may apply to purchase coverage under this | 48 |
|
section. If the department charges an administrative fee under | 49 |
|
this section, the rules also shall prescribe a method for | 50 |
|
determining the amount of the fee to be charged. | 51 |
