May 17, 2007, Introduced by Rep. Wenke and referred to the Committee on Oversight and Investigations.
A bill to limit the cost of health benefits of certain state
and local public employees.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
Sec. 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the
"public employee health benefit cap act".
Sec. 2. As used in this act:
(a) "Health benefit plan" means a plan providing medical,
optical, or dental benefits to any employee or group of employees
or their dependents.
(b) "Public employer" means 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 community
college or junior college described in section 7 of article VIII of
the state constitution of 1963. Public employer also includes the
following:
(i) A public university that elects to come under the
provisions of this act.
(ii) This state as to noncivil service employees.
(iii) The civil service commission if it elects to come under
the provisions of this act.
Sec. 3. A public employer shall not offer a health benefit
plan to an employee if the cost of the benefit plan exceeds the
cost of the most expensive benefit plan covering the same type of
benefits that is offered to a nonexclusively represented employee
in the classified state civil service.