Bill Text: MI SB1199 | 2017-2018 | 99th Legislature | Chaptered
Bill Title: Labor; public service employment; mandated public employee contribution to employer-provider health care benefits; modify the hard cap issue date deadline. Amends sec. 3 of 2011 PA 152 (MCL 15.563).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - Assigned Pa 477'18 With Immediate Effect [SB1199 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2017-SB1199-Chaptered.html
Act No. 477
Public Acts of 2018
Approved by the Governor
December 24, 2018
Filed with the Secretary of State
December 27, 2018
EFFECTIVE DATE: December 27, 2018
STATE OF MICHIGAN
99TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2018
Introduced by Senator Stamas
ENROLLED SENATE BILL No. 1199
AN ACT to amend 2011 PA 152, entitled “An act to limit a public employer’s expenditures for employee medical benefit plans; to provide the power and duties of certain state agencies and officials; to provide for exceptions; and to provide for sanctions,” by amending section 3 (MCL 15.563), as amended by 2013 PA 270.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3. (1) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a public employer that offers or contributes to a medical benefit plan for its employees or elected public officials shall pay no more of the annual costs or illustrative rate and any payments for reimbursement of co-pays, deductibles, or payments into health savings accounts, flexible spending accounts, or similar accounts used for health care costs, than a total amount equal to $5,500.00 times the number of employees and elected public officials with single-person coverage, $11,000.00 times the number of employees and elected public officials with individual-and-spouse coverage or individual-plus-1-nonspouse-dependent coverage, plus $15,000.00 times the number of employees and elected public officials with family coverage, for a medical benefit plan coverage year beginning on or after January 1, 2012. A public employer may allocate its payments for medical benefit plan costs among its employees and elected public officials as it sees fit. By October 1 of each year after 2011 and before 2019, the state treasurer shall adjust the maximum payment permitted under this subsection for each coverage category for medical benefit plan coverage years beginning the succeeding calendar year, based on the change in the medical care component of the United States Consumer Price Index for the most recent 12-month period for which data are available from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. By April 1 of each year after 2018, the state treasurer shall adjust the maximum payment permitted under this subsection for each coverage category for medical benefit plan coverage years beginning the succeeding calendar year, based on the change in the medical care component of the United States Consumer Price Index for the most recent 12-month period for which data are available from the United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
(2) For a medical benefit plan coverage year beginning January 1, 2014 through December 31, 2014, the multiplier used to calculate the maximum public employer payment under subsection (1) is $12,250.00 for employees and elected public officials with individual-and-spouse coverage or individual-plus-1-nonspouse-dependent coverage. The state treasurer shall adjust the multiplier each year as provided in subsection (1).
(3) For purposes of calculating a public employer’s maximum total annual medical benefit plan costs under subsection (1), “employee or elected public official” does not include an employee or elected public official who declines the medical benefit plan offered or contributed to by the public employer.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Secretary of the Senate
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Approved
Governor
