2002 SPECIAL SESSION (18th)                                                                                  A SB3 R1 7

Amendment No. 7

 

Assembly Amendment to Senate Bill No. 3  First Reprint                                                        (BDR S‑15)

Proposed by: Committee on Ways and Means

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 6

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends:         Summary:               Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

ASSEMBLY ACTION              Initial and Date              |SENATE ACTION                        Initial and Date

       Adopted       Lost                                               |          Adopted       Lost                                           

Concurred In                     Not                                                        |Concurred In  Not                                 

       Receded        Not                                               |         Receded        Not                                           

 

     Amend section 1, page 2, line 4, by deleting “$486.10” and inserting “$465.78”.

     Amend sec. 2, page 2, line 13, by deleting “$275.40” and inserting “$263.89”.

     Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 3 as sec. 5 and adding new sections designated sections 3 and 4, following sec. 2, to read as follows:

     “Sec. 3.  The board of the public employees’ benefits program shall ensure that:

     1.  No state employee who is a member of the program is required to pay, for the fiscal year 2002-2003, any part of the cost of the premiums or contributions for the program which are attributable to the health benefits coverage of the employee by the program. The provisions of this subsection do not prohibit requiring a state employee to pay the cost of the premiums or contributions attributable to the coverage of the state employee’s dependents by the program.

     2.  Any money resulting from the amendatory provisions of section 1 of this act that exceeds the amount necessary to carry out the provisions of subsection 1 is applied to reserves or used to maintain current health benefits.

     Sec. 4.  The board of the public employees’ benefits program shall issue a request for information or a request for proposals to determine whether privatization of the public employees’ benefits program is economically feasible. The board of the public employees’ benefits program shall require that any information or proposals returned in response to a request issued pursuant to this section are returned to the board in sufficient time to allow the board to use such information or proposals when making any decisions regarding any plan for benefits that will begin on or after July 1, 2003.”.

     Amend sec. 3, page 2, line 14, by deleting:

“January 1, 2003.” and inserting:

“October 1, 2002.”.

     Amend the title of the bill, third line, after the semicolon, by inserting:

“requiring the board of the public employees’ benefits program to issue a request for information or proposals concerning privatization of the program;”.