14-A:6 Group Insurance Participation. –
I. Members of the general court may participate at their own expense in a group health and dental insurance arrangement for members of the general court during their tenure in office. Such group health and dental insurance arrangement shall be the state employees group insurance plan afforded full-time state employees. Participation in such state employees group insurance plan by a member of the general court shall not be considered by any judicial, administrative, executive or any other body as evidence that a member of the general court is an employee of the state.
II. Notwithstanding the terms of any state employee group insurance contract or other state law to the contrary, members of the general court who have participated in a group health and dental insurance arrangement for members of the general court during their tenure in office, shall elect, within 30 days after they leave the general court, either to continue to participate fully in that arrangement for as long as they choose to do so at their own expense, or to discontinue their participation.
III. The commissioner of the department of administrative services shall invoice and collect amounts due from members. Collected amounts shall be deposited in the employee and retiree benefit risk management fund.
IV. Failure to remit payment for participation pursuant to paragraph I of this section in full within 30 days of billing shall be grounds for terminating benefits, effective with the beginning of the billing period. Reenrollment shall be dependent upon payment of outstanding participation or other amounts.
V. Failure to remit payment in full for participation pursuant to paragraph II of this section within 60 days of billing shall be grounds for permanently terminating benefits effective upon the beginning of the billing period. Either in the billing notice or in a separate notice to the person billed, the department of administrative services shall advise that failure to pay the specified amount in full within the required time shall be grounds for permanent termination of benefits.
Source. 1988, 162:1. 1991, 69:1. 1998, 339:1, eff. Aug. 25, 1998. 2012, 80:1, eff. July 22, 2012.