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RI Gen L § 36-12-2.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-2.1 - Health insurance benefits - Coverage for abortions excluded.

§ 36-12-2.1. Health insurance benefits — Coverage for abortions excluded.(a) The state of Rhode Island shall not include in any health insurance contracts, plans, or policies covering employees, any provision which shall provide coverage for induced abortions (except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term, or where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest). This section shall be applicable to all contracts, plans or policies of:(1) All health insurers subject to title 27;(2) All group and blanket health insurers subject to title 27;(3) All nonprofit hospital, medical, surgical, dental, and health service corporations;(4) All health maintenance organizations; and(5) Any provision of medical, hospital, surgical, and funeral benefits and of coverage against accidental death or injury when the benefits or coverage are incidental to or part of other insurance authorized by the statutes of this state.(b) Provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to benefits provided under existing collective bargaining agreements entered into prior to June 30, 1982.(c) Nothing contained herein shall be construed to pertain to insurance coverage for complications as the result of an abortion.History of Section.P.L. 1981, ch. 290, § 1; P.L. 1983, ch. 262, § 1; P.L. 2019, ch. 27, § 8.
RI Gen L § 36-12-2.3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-2.3 - Health insurance benefits - Administrative services fees for continued coverage requirements of group health plans.

§ 36-12-2.3. Health insurance benefits — Administrative services fees for continued coverage requirements of group health plans.In accordance with the Tax Reform Act of 1986 (P.L. 99-514), amending § 162(k) of the Federal Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C. § 162(k), in the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), 42 U.S.C. § 403, a general revenue receipt account is created to be used solely for deposit of any applicable administrative services fees.History of Section.P.L. 1989, ch. 126, art. 42, § 1; P.L. 1995, ch. 370, art. 40, § 110.
RI Gen L § 36-12-2.4 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-2.4 - Health insurance benefits - COBRA.

§ 36-12-2.4. Health insurance benefits — COBRA.For purposes of fulfilling any employer obligations under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), 42 U.S.C. § 403 et seq., a domestic partner shall be deemed a dependent of an employee as defined herein.History of Section.P.L. 2006, ch. 189, § 2; P.L. 2006, ch. 316, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-12-2.5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-2.5 - Health insurance benefits - Coverage of former spouse.

§ 36-12-2.5. Health insurance benefits — Coverage of former spouse.Commencing January 1, 2014, a state employee's family health plan shall not provide coverage to a former spouse unless the former spouse was covered by said plan in accordance with § 27-20.4-1 as of December 31, 2013.History of Section.P.L. 2013, ch. 144, art. 3, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-3 - Deductions from pay.

§ 36-12-3. Deductions from pay.Payments for hospital care and surgical-medical services, rights, and benefits of dependents of employees may be deducted from the state payroll as provided in §§ 36-6-12 and 36-6-13. Payments for surgical-medical services, rights, and benefits of all persons in the service of the state, other than employees, as defined in § 36-12-1(2), whether employed, appointed, or elected, and the dependents of persons may also be deducted from the state payroll as provided in §§ 36-6-12 and 36-6-13.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 136, § 3; P.L. 1981, ch. 276, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-4.1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-4.1 - Coverage of Medicare-eligible retired employees.

§ 36-12-4.1. Coverage of Medicare-eligible retired employees.(a) The director of the department of administration shall ensure retired employees access to Medicare-eligible retiree healthcare insurance. Under this program, the state will establish a health reimbursement account (HRA) funded by state contributions for each Medicare-eligible state retiree who elects to receive healthcare insurance through the state-sponsored program.(b) The funds contained in the HRA may be utilized for any eligible medical care expenses as defined in § 213(d) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, which includes reimbursements for healthcare insurance premiums.(c) The director of the department of administration shall procure services to maximize consumer choice and options with respect to the individual policies available to Medicare-eligible retirees.(d) The maximum state contribution to each Medicare-eligible state retiree's HRA account will be equal to the lowest-cost Medicare supplemental plan that is filed with the Office of the Health Insurance Commissioner of Rhode Island, that is available through the state-sponsored program, and that meets the provisions of the Medicare-eligible retiree healthcare insurance benefit defined in § 36-12-1(9). The maximum state contribution will vary by age as specified by the rates set forth in the Medicare supplemental plan filing.(e) For Medicare-eligible state retirees who retired before September 30, 2008, effective January 1, 2014, the state of Rhode Island will credit an amount to each retiree's HRA account on a monthly basis. The amount of such credit shall be calculated based on the retiree's years of service, as a percentage of the maximum state contribution set forth in (d) above, and in accordance with the following formula:  Years of Service State's Contribution Employee's Share   10 - 15 50% 50%   16 - 19 70% 30%   20 - 27 90% 10%   28+ 100% 0%  (f) For Medicare-eligible state retirees who retire on or after October 1, 2008, effective January 1, 2014, the state of Rhode Island will credit monthly an amount to each retiree's HRA account equal to 80% of the maximum state contribution set forth in (d) above, provided the retiree has a minimum of twenty (20) years of service and is at least fifty-nine (59) years of age.(g) Medicare-eligible teacher retirees may purchase the individual policies available to Medicare-eligible state retirees under the state-sponsored program.History of Section.P.L. 2013, ch. 144, art. 2, § 2.
RI Gen L § 36-12-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-5 - Annual appropriations.

§ 36-12-5. Annual appropriations.The general assembly shall annually appropriate a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of §§ 36-12-1—36-12-5. The state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his or her orders upon the general treasurer for the payment of the sum, or so much thereof as may be required from time to time, upon receipt by him or her of properly authenticated vouchers.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 136, § 5.
RI Gen L § 36-12-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-7 - Eligibility for benefits.

§ 36-12-7. Eligibility for benefits.(a) All persons in the service of the state on and after July 1, 1960, whether elected, appointed or employed, who elect to participate in an insurance contract or contracts shall be eligible to participate therein. The director, however, with the consent of the insurance company or companies, may by rule or regulation exclude those classes of temporary, part-time, or intermittent employees for whom insurance contracts shall be deemed to be impracticable.(b) The director, with the consent of the insurance company or companies, may authorize the inclusion in insurance contracts of employees of public authorities, full-time employees of organizations representing state employees, or other appropriate agencies of the state as may be designated in the rules or regulations of the director, and may prescribe the rate of contribution required from such participating authorities, or other agencies.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 2; P.L. 1968, ch. 235, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-8 - Provisions of insurance contract.

§ 36-12-8. Provisions of insurance contract.(a) The director is hereby authorized and directed to establish a life insurance plan for employees of the state as herein provided, which, subject to the conditions and limitations contained in §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, and in the regulations promulgated pursuant to the authority vested in him or her by §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, will provide for each participating employee group life insurance equal to the amount of his or her annual compensation, taken to the next higher multiple of one thousand dollars ($1,000), plus an equal amount of group accidental death insurance with dismemberment coverage as provided herein.(b) In addition to the benefits provided hereinbefore and subject to the conditions and limitations of the policy or policies purchased by the director, the policy or policies shall provide payments as follows:  Loss Amount Payable   For accidental loss of life. An amount equal to the full amount of life insurance provided by this section.   For accidental loss of one hand or one foot or loss of sight of one eye. An amount equal to one-half the amount of life insurance provided by this section.   For accidental loss of two or more such members. An amount equal to the full amount of life insurance provided by this section.  (c) For any one accident the aggregate amount of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance that may be paid shall not exceed the amount of life insurance provided by §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14.(d) The director shall by regulation provide for the conversion of other than annual rates of compensation to an annual basis and shall further specify the types of compensation to be included in annual compensation.(e) The amount of insurance shall be reduced by one percent (1%) thereof at the end of each calendar month following the date the employee attains the age of sixty-five (65), until the amount of the insurance reaches forty percent (40%) of the annual salary at age seventy (70). The amount of insurance shall remain at forty percent (40%) of the annual salary thereafter until the active employee reaches age seventy-four (74), at which point it shall be reduced to thirty percent (30%) of the annual salary until age eighty (80), at which point it shall be reduced to twenty-five percent (25%) of the annual salary and it shall remain at twenty-five percent (25%) thereafter.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 3; P.L. 1987, ch. 574, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-9 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-9 - Beneficiaries - Payment of benefits.

§ 36-12-9. Beneficiaries — Payment of benefits.(a) The policy or policies issued hereunder shall include a provision prescribing the conditions under which an insured employee may designate and change the beneficiary or beneficiaries to receive insurance payable upon the death of the employee.(b) If, at the death of any employee insured hereunder, there shall be more than one designated beneficiary, then, unless the employee shall have specified the respective interests of the beneficiaries, the interests of the beneficiaries shall be several and equal. If any designated beneficiary shall predecease the employee, the rights and interest of the beneficiary shall thereupon automatically terminate. If, at the death of the employee, there be no designated beneficiary as to all or any part of the insurance, then the amount of the insurance payable for which there is no designated beneficiary shall be payable to the estate of the employee; provided, however, that the insurance company may, in that case, at its option, and subject to rules approved by the director, pay the amount to any one of the following surviving relatives: wife, husband, mother, father, child, or children. Payment to any one or more of the surviving relatives shall completely discharge the insurance company's liability with respect to the amount of insurance so paid.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 4.
RI Gen L § 36-12-10 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-10 - Participation by employees.

§ 36-12-10. Participation by employees.Any policy of insurance purchased by the director as authorized in §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 shall provide that all employees eligible under the terms of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 will be automatically insured thereunder commencing on the date they first become so eligible; provided, that any employee desiring not to be so insured shall, on an appropriate form to be prescribed by the director, give written notice to the director that he or she desires not to be insured. If the notice is received before the employee shall have become insured under the policy he or she shall not be so insured; if it is received after he or she shall have become insured his or her insurance under the policy shall cease, effective with the end of the pay period during which the notice is received by the director.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 5.
RI Gen L § 36-12-11 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-11 - Deductions from salary - Payments by employers.

§ 36-12-11. Deductions from salary — Payments by employers.(a) During any period in which an employee under age sixty-five (65) is insured under a policy of insurance purchased by the director as authorized in §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, there shall be withheld by the employer from each salary payment of the employee, as his or her share of the cost of his or her group life and accidental death and dismemberment insurance, an amount specified in the contract or policy which shall not exceed the rate of twenty-five cents (25¢) biweekly for each one thousand dollars ($1,000) of his or her group life insurance; provided, that an employee who is paid on other than a biweekly basis shall have an amount so withheld, determined at a proportionate rate, which rate shall be adjusted to the nearest cent.(b) The cost of providing the insurance benefits provided for in §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, together with the cost of administration of the provisions of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 in excess of the amounts paid by employees therefor, shall be paid by the participating employers in those proportions and at those times as the director may determine.(c) The payments shall be made by the participating employers out of appropriations made therefor, and the general assembly shall annually appropriate those sums to the fund herein created which may be required during the fiscal year.(d) The sums withheld from employees and the funds appropriated by participating employers as provided herein shall be deposited with the general treasurer of the state to the credit of a fund which is hereby created as the group life insurance fund.(e) During any period in which an employee is insured under a policy of long term health care insurance purchased by the director as authorized in § 36-12-6, there shall be withheld by the employer from each salary payment of the employee as his or her cost of long term care insurance an amount specified in the contract or policy; provided, that an employee who is paid on other than a biweekly basis shall have an amount so withheld, determined at a proportionate rate, which rate shall be adjusted to the nearest cent.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 6; P.L. 1988, ch. 433, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-12 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-12 - Termination of insurance.

§ 36-12-12. Termination of insurance.Each contract of insurance purchased under §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 shall contain a provision, in terms approved by the director, to the effect that any insurance thereunder on any employee shall cease upon the termination of his or her employment subject to a provision which shall be contained in the contract of insurance for temporary extension of coverage under conditions approved by the director and for conversion to an individual policy of life insurance for the employee, except that the director may by appropriate general regulation provide that an employee who retires, under the provisions of any retirement system of the state of Rhode Island, with the exception of that provided in § 42-28-22, shall have his or her life insurance only, in effect at the time of retirement, continue in the amounts for which he or she would have been insured from time to time had his or her salary payments continued at the same rate as on the date of cessation of employment.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 7; P.L. 1969, ch. 159, § 1; P.L. 1987, ch. 574, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12-13 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-13 - Regulations and effective date of insurance.

§ 36-12-13. Regulations and effective date of insurance.Subject to the provisions of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, the director is hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to give effect to the intent and purposes of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, to establish an effective date or dates for the insurance coverage provided hereunder.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 8.
RI Gen L § 36-12-14 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-14 - Severability.

§ 36-12-14. Severability.The provisions of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 are hereby declared to be severable, and in case any part, section, or provision of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 is held void by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining parts, sections, and provisions of §§ 36-12-6 — 36-12-14 shall not, thereby, be impaired or otherwise affected.History of Section.P.L. 1960, ch. 119, § 9.
RI Gen L § 36-12-15 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12 - Insurance Benefits|Section 36-12-15 - Repealed.

§ 36-12-15. Repealed.History of Section.P.L. 2006, ch. 157, § 1; P.L. 2006, ch. 631, § 1; Repealed by P.L. 2006, ch. 157, § 3, effective June 21, 2006; . P.L. 2006, ch. 631, § 3, effective July 14, 2006.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-1 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-1 - Name of act.

§ 36-12.1-1. Name of act.This act shall be known as the "Health Insurance and Benefits Funding Act".History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-2 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-2 - Statement of purpose.

§ 36-12.1-2. Statement of purpose.The purpose of the Health Insurance and Benefits Funding Act is to address the necessity of funding the State's unfunded liability for retiree health care benefits required by recent accounting changes and prudent resource management.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-3 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-3 - Background.

§ 36-12.1-3. Background.The general assembly finds that the State faces a significant unfunded liability associated with its retiree health care benefits programs. To date, the State has been funding retiree health care benefits on a pay-as-you-go basis. Recently established governmental accounting standards applicable to the State require that the State account for such unfunded costs on an accrued actuarial basis. An actuarial study conducted by the State shows that the State faces an unfunded future liability for retiree health care benefits in excess of six hundred million dollars ($600,000,000). The creation and eventual funding of a dedicated trust fund for the purpose of financing this liability on accrued actuarial basis is fiscally prudent and will produce significant benefits to the State.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-5 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-5 - Establishment of OPEB system.

§ 36-12.1-5. Establishment of OPEB system.An OPEB System is hereby established and placed under the management of the OPEB Board for the purpose of providing and administering OPEB Benefits for Retired Employees of the State of Rhode Island and their dependants under the provisions of chapter 36-12, entitled "Insurance Benefits", of this title, and for retired non-classified employees who are participants in the Board of Governors for Higher Education's alternate retirement plans. The OPEB System so created shall begin operation as of July 1, 2010. It shall have the power and privileges of a corporation and shall be known as the "Rhode Island State Employees' and Electing Teachers OPEB System" and by that name all of its business shall be transacted.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3; P.L. 2009, ch. 5, art. 4, § 1.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-6 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-6 - Responsibility for administration - rules and regulations.

§ 36-12.1-6. Responsibility for administration — rules and regulations.The general administration and the responsibility for the proper operation of the OPEB System and for making effective the provisions of chapter 36-12 of this title are hereby vested in an OPEB Board. The OPEB Board shall, from time to time, establish rules and regulations for the administration and transaction of the business of the OPEB System. Rules and regulations which have been or may be established pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall be compiled, codified, and published so that they shall be generally available to the members of the system. The OPEB Board shall also perform such other functions as are required for the execution of chapters 12, 12.1 and 12.2 of this title. In its discretion, the OPEB Board may issue regulations governing the application of this chapter.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-7 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-7 - Composition of the OPEB board.

§ 36-12.1-7. Composition of the OPEB board.The OPEB Board shall consist of the State Controller, the State Budget Officer, the State Personnel Administrator and the General Treasurer, or their designees.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3; P.L. 2011, ch. 363, § 32.
RI Gen L § 36-12.1-8 (2021)
2021 Rhode Island General Laws|Title 36 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 36-12.1 - Retiree Health Care Trust Fund|Section 36-12.1-8 - Meetings of the OPEB board.

§ 36-12.1-8. Meetings of the OPEB board.Meetings shall be held at such place as may be designated in the call of the meeting, provided at no cost to the state, at the call of the chairperson.History of Section.P.L. 2008, ch. 9, art. 4, § 3.