GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

S                                                                                                                                                    2

SENATE BILL 1251*

Pensions & Retirement & Aging Committee Substitute Adopted 6/16/10

Short Title:        State Health Plan/Treat Teachers Equitably.	(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

May 20, 2010

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to grant the same health benefit coverage currently provided to other state employees to teachers who have worked a full school year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 135-45.2(a)(8) reads as rewritten:

"§ 135-45.2.  Eligibility.

(a)        Noncontributory Coverage. - The following persons are eligible for coverage under the Plan, on a noncontributory basis, subject to the provisions of G.S. 135-45.4:

…

(8)        Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. G.S. 135-45.12 employees formerly covered by the provisions of this section, other than retired employees, who have been employed for 12 or more months by an employing unit unit, or who have completed a contract term of employment of 10 or 11 months and whose employing unit is a local school administrative unit, and whose jobs are eliminated because of a reduction, in total or in part, in the funds used to support the job or its responsibilities, provided the employees were covered by the Plan at the time of separation from service resulting from a job elimination. Employees covered by this subsection shall be covered for a period of up to 12 months following a separation from service because of a job elimination."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2010.