Resolve, To Assist Retired Teachers by Establishing a Health Insurance Payment Program
Maine Legislature, Session 121, LD 1225
Committee: Labor
Sponsors: JACKSON, STANLEY, FISCHER, HATCH, HEIDRICH, NUTTING, PATRICK, SMITH, WATSON, BLAIS

Legislative Document 
No.I22S 
H.P.899 
House of Representatives, March 6, 2003 
Resolve, To Assist Retired Teachers by Establishing a Health 
Insurance Payment Program 
Reference to the Committee on Labor suggested and ordered printed. 
Presented by Representative JACKSON of Fort Kent. 
Cosponsored by Senator STANLEY of Penobscot and 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Representatives: FISCHER of Presque Isle, HATCH of Skowhegan, HEIDRICH of Oxford, 
NUTTING of Oakland, PATRICK of Rumford, SMITH of Van Buren, WATSON of Bath, 
Senator: BLAIS of Kennebec. 
Printed on m:ycled paper 
Sec. 1. 
Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Premium Payment 
Program. 
Resolved: 
That the Department of Administrative and 
Financial 
Services, 
referred to 
in this 
resolve 
as 
"the 
department," shall create the Retired Teachers' Health Insurance 
Premium Payment Program, referred to in this resolve as "the 
program." 
The 
program 
must 
be 
similar 
to 
the 
Maine 
State 
Retirement System and allow a teacher who contributes to the 
Maine State Retirement System to make pretax contributions to the 
fund under section 2 of this resolve that will be used to pay the 
cost of the group accident and sickness or health insurance 
provided to teachers under the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 
20-A, section 13451 after that teacher retires. 
The amount of 
the teacher's contribution must be equal to the difference 
between the cost of the insurance and the amount contributed by 
the State pursuant to Title 20-A, section 13451, subsection 3. 
Eligibility requirements for the program must be the same as 
provided in Title 20-A, section 13451; and be it further 
Sec. 2. Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Premium Payment Fund. 
Resolved: 
That the department shall create the Retired Teachers' 
Health Insurance Premium Payment Fund, 
referred to in this 
resolve as "the fund," as part of the program. 
The department 
may expend money from the fund to carry out the purposes of the 
program and to pay for necessary administrative costs. 
The fund 
may be interest bearing and any eligible investment earnings 
credited to the assets of the fund become part of the assets of 
that fund. 
Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any 
fiscal year does not lapse but must be carried forward for the 
next fiscal year; and be it further 
Sec. 3. Report. Resolved: 
That the department shall submit 
proposed 
legislation 
necessary 
to 
statutorily establish 
the 
program and fund to the Legislature by January 1, 2004. 
SUMMARY 
This resolve requires the Department of Administrative and 
Financial Services to establish the Retired Teachers' Health 
Insurance 
Premium 
Payment 
Program 
and 
the 
Retired Teachers' 
Health Insurance Premium Payment Fund. 
The program will be 
similar to the Maine State Retirement System and be available to 
teachers who make contributions to the Maine State Retirement 
System to allow those teachers to make pretax contributions to 
the Retired Teachers' Health Insurance Premium Payment Fund, 
which will be used to pay the cost of health insurance premiums 
less the contribution by the State, which is currently 35~, once 
the teachers retire. 
This resolve requires the department to 
submit proposed legislation to the Legislature by January 1, 2004. 
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