House Bill hb0647

    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 647

        By Representative Trovillion






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the state group insurance

  3         program; amending s. 110.123, F.S.; providing a

  4         period of time during which certain retired

  5         officers and employees may elect to participate

  6         under the program; providing that former state

  7         officers and employees who are vested in the

  8         Florida Retirement System may participate in

  9         the state group health insurance plan at the

10         time of receiving their state retirement

11         benefits; providing an effective date.

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13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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15         Section 1.  Paragraph (g) of subsection (3) of section

16  110.123, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

17         110.123  State group insurance program.--

18         (3)  STATE GROUP INSURANCE PROGRAM.--

19         (g)1.  Participation by individuals in the program

20  shall be available to all state officers, full-time state

21  employees, and part-time state employees; and such

22  participation in the program or any plan thereof shall be

23  voluntary. Participation in the program shall also be

24  available to retired state officers and employees who elect at

25  the time of retirement to continue coverage under the program,

26  but they may elect to continue all or only part of the

27  coverage they had at the time of retirement. A surviving

28  spouse may elect to continue coverage only under the state

29  group health insurance plan or a health maintenance

30  organization plan.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 2002                 HB 647

    563-162B-02






  1         2.  Commencing on July 1, 2002, there shall be a

  2  one-time period of 90 days during which retired state officers

  3  and employees who did not elect at the time of retirement to

  4  continue coverage under the program may elect to participate

  5  in the program with all or part of the coverage they had at

  6  the time of retirement.

  7         3.  Notwithstanding paragraph (2)(g), former state

  8  officers and employees who are vested in the Florida

  9  Retirement System, and who have deferred receiving their state

10  retirement benefits until age 62 to avoid early retirement

11  penalties, may participate in the state group health insurance

12  plan at the time of receiving their state retirement benefits

13  on the same basis as a retiree defined in paragraph (2)(g).

14         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

15  law.

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18                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Provides a 90-day period of time during which described
20    retired officers and employees in the Florida Retirement
      System may elect to participate in the State Group
21    Insurance Program. Provides that described former state
      officers and employees who are vested in the Florida
22    Retirement System may participate in the group health
      insurance plan at the time of receiving their state
23    retirement benefits.

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