Bill Text: NC H122 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Add Counties/Towns/Cities-State Health Plan

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-05-07 - Re-ref Com On Insurance [H122 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-H122-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

H                                                                                                                                                   2

HOUSE BILL 122

Committee Substitute Favorable 4/16/15

 

Short Title:        Add Counties/Towns/Cities‑State Health Plan.		(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

March 3, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT TO Authorize VARIOUS COUNTIES, Towns, and Cities TO ENROLL their EMPLOYEES AND DEPENDENTS IN THE STATE HEALTH PLAN FOR TEACHERS AND STATE EMPLOYEES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 135‑48.47(a) reads as rewritten:

"(a)       Eligibility. – The employees and dependents of employees of the following local government units are eligible to participate in the State Health Plan:

(1)        Montgomery County.Caldwell, Haywood, Madison, Montgomery, and Yancey Counties.

(2)        Towns of Elizabethtown and Matthews. Burnsville, Canton, Clyde, Elizabethtown, Granite Falls, Hudson, Maggie Valley, Matthews, Rutherfordton, Sawmills, Spindale, Valdese, and Waynesville.

(3)        Cities of Lowell and Morganton.

Employees and dependents participating under this section are not guaranteed participation in the Plan, and participation is contingent on their respective local government units complying with the provisions of this section and this Article, as well as any policies adopted by the Plan."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.