Bill Text: MI HB5624 | 2009-2010 | 95th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; public service employment; percentage of health benefits required to be paid by public employees; establish. Creates new act.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 22-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-12-02 - Printed Bill Filed 12/02/2009 [HB5624 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2009-HB5624-Introduced.html

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HOUSE BILL No. 5624

 

December 1, 2009, Introduced by Reps. Agema, Moss, Tyler, Haines, Meltzer, McMillin, Daley, Lori, Walsh, Green, Hildenbrand, Elsenheimer, Denby, Kowall, Lund, Ball, DeShazor, Amash, Meekhof, Knollenberg, Pearce and Schuitmaker and referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

     A bill to require certain conditions on health benefits that

 

public employers offer to their employees and elected officials.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the

 

"health benefit cost sharing act".

 

     Sec. 2. As used in this act:

 

     (a) "Health benefits" means medical, dental, or vision health

 

care coverage.

 

     (b) "Public employer" means this state; a city, village,

 

township, county, or other political subdivision of this state; any

 

intergovernmental, metropolitan, or local department, agency, or

 

authority, or other local political subdivision; or a school

 

district, a public school academy, or an intermediate school

 

district, as those terms are defined in the revised school code,

 

1976 PA 451, MCL 380.1 to 380.1852.

 

     Sec. 3. (1) If a public employer offers health benefits to its

 

employees or elected officials, each employee or elected official

 

shall pay a percentage of the premium cost of the health benefits

 

that equals or exceeds 15%.

 

     (2) Health benefit copayments, deductibles, or coinsurance

 

payments are in addition to, and not included in, the share of the

 

cost of health benefits required under subsection (1).