September 25, 2013, Introduced by Senators CASWELL, COLBECK and HANSEN and referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing.
A bill to amend 2011 PA 152, entitled
"Publicly funded health insurance contribution act,"
by amending section 3 (MCL 15.563).
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,
plus $15,000.00 times the number of employees and elected public
officials with family coverage, which includes individual-plus-1-
nonspouse-dependent 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, the state treasurer shall adjust the
maximum
payment permitted under this section 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, 2013 through December 31, 2013, the multiplier used to calculate
the maximum public employer payment under subsection (1) shall be
$13,455.00 for employees and elected public officials with
individual-and-spouse coverage and shall be adjusted 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.
(4) A public employer's total annual costs of all of the
medical benefit plans the public employer offers or contributes to
for its employees and elected public officials under this section
do not include any of the following:
(a) A payment by the public employer to an employee or elected
public official in lieu of medical benefit plan coverage.
(b) Any amount that the public employer pays directly or
indirectly for the assessment levied pursuant to the health
insurance claims assessment act, 2011 PA 142, MCL 550.1731 to
550.1741.
Enacting section 1. Section 3(1), (3), and (4) of the publicly
funded health insurance contribution act, 2011 PA 152, MCL 15.563,
as amended or added by this amendatory act, clarifies the original
intent of the legislature that the term "family coverage" includes
individual-plus-1-nonspouse-dependent coverage; that a public
employee or elected official who declines the public employer's
medical benefit plan coverage is not an employee or elected public
official for purposes of calculating the public employer's maximum
total annual medical benefit plan costs; and that a public
employer's medical benefit plan costs do not include payments to
employees in lieu of medical benefit plan coverage or assessments
levied pursuant to the health insurance claims assessment act, 2011
PA 142, MCL 550.1731 to 550.1741. These amendments are curative and
apply retroactively.