Bill Text: MI SB0225 | 2019-2020 | 100th Legislature | Introduced

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Bill Title: Labor; public service employment; opt-out for public employee contribution to employer-provider health care benefits; remove population threshold exclusion. Amends sec. 8 of 2011 PA 152 (MCL 15.568).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-14 - Referred To Committee On Appropriations [SB0225 Detail]

Download: Michigan-2019-SB0225-Introduced.html

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SENATE BILL No. 225

 

 

March 14, 2019, Introduced by Senator SANTANA and referred to the Committee on Appropriations.

 

 

 

     A bill to amend 2011 PA 152, entitled

 

"Publicly funded health insurance contribution act,"

 

by amending section 8 (MCL 15.568), as amended by 2014 PA 184.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 

     Sec. 8. (1) By a 2/3 vote of its governing body each year,

 

prior to the beginning of the medical benefit plan coverage year, a

 

local unit of government may exempt itself from the requirements of

 

this act for the next succeeding medical benefit plan coverage

 

year.

 

     (2) A 2/3 vote of the governing body of the local unit of

 

government prior to the beginning of each succeeding medical

 

benefit plan coverage year is required to extend an exemption under

 

this section.

 

     (3) An exemption under this section is not effective for a

 

city with a mayor who is both the chief executive and chief

 

administrator, unless the mayor also approves the exemption.

 

     (4) An exemption under this section is not effective for a

 

county with a county executive who is both the chief executive and

 

chief administrator, unless the county executive also approves the

 

exemption.

 

     (5) An exemption under this section is not effective for a

 

city with a population greater than 600,000.

 

     Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days

 

after the date it is enacted into law.