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CO Code § 24-50-608 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-608. Dependents - Eligibility - Election of Coverage

  Any eligible employee may elect to have the employee's dependents covered by the group benefit plans. Such election shall be made at the time the employee becomes enrolled in the plan under such procedures as the director shall establish. If dependent coverage is not elected at the time that an employee becomes enrolled in an appropriate plan, any subsequent election of dependent coverage shall be made under such conditions as the director may impose.    Any employee who elects coverage, as provided in subsection (1) of this section, and who has a change in the number of dependents may, at the time of such change, increase or decrease the number of dependents covered by the group benefit plans under procedures established by and subject to the approval of the director.    Any employee who has no eligible dependents at the time the employee becomes enrolled in the group benefit plans and who later has an eligible dependent may, at the time the dependency status changes, elect appropriate coverage for such dependent under procedures established by and subject to the approval of the director.    If a dependent is no longer eligible for coverage because the dependent turned twenty-six years old, the director shall remove the dependent from the group benefit plan by the end of the month in which the dependent turned twenty-six years old. If the director fails to remove the ineligible dependent, the employee and the employee's department shall not be directly financially liable for the premiums paid for the dependent coverage if no claims have been paid for the ineligible dependent. If the director fails to remove the ineligible dependent and a claim has been paid for the ineligible dependent, the employee and the employee's department shall not be directly financially liable for the paid claim. The costs for premiums and claims paid may be paid from the group benefit plans reserve fund established in section 24-50-613.     Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1132, § 1, effective May 19. L. 2010: (4) added, (HB 10-1228), ch. 298, p. 1404, § 1, effective July 1. L. 2018: (4) amended, (SB 18-131), ch. 100, p. 775, § 4, effective August 8.   Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 10-8-210 as it existed prior to 1994.   Cross references: For the legislative declaration in SB 18-131, see section 1 of chapter 100, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.
CO Code § 24-50-610 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-610. Payroll Deductions - Employees

 The amount of monthly contributions, if any, to be made by employees enrolled in group benefit plans shall be deducted from the salaries of such employees and remitted to the department of personnel. The procedure for such deductions and remittances, including a procedure for determination of the appropriate amount and collection and remittance of monthly contributions from elected state officials who do not receive compensation other than expense reimbursement from state funds, shall be established by the department of personnel; except that the department of personnel shall not establish any method of collection and remittances of monthly contributions from elected state officials who do not receive compensation other than expense reimbursement from state funds from any entity other than from such individual state officials.   Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1133, § 1, effective May 19. L. 98: Entire section amended, p. 307, § 3, effective August 5.   Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 10-8-212.
CO Code § 24-50-611 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-611. Employer Payments

 The head of each state agency, department, or institution having employees enrolled in group benefit plans shall make a monthly payment to the department of personnel for each employee so enrolled of an amount as provided for in section 24-50-609. The estimated amount required for such payments shall be included in the annual budgets of such agencies, departments, and institutions.   Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1133, § 1, effective May 19.   Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 10-8-213.
CO Code § 24-50-612 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-612. Administrative Duties

  It is the duty of the department of personnel to provide such assistance and to perform such duties as are necessary to carry out the state's administrative, accounting, and clerical responsibilities in connection with the operation of group benefit plans.    and (3) Repealed.     Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1134, § 1, effective May 19. L. 95: (1) amended, p. 655, § 72, effective July 1. L. 2010: (2) repealed, (HB 10-1181), ch. 351, p. 1628, § 20, effective June 7. L. 2018: (3) repealed, (SB 18-131), ch. 100, p. 776, § 6, effective August 8.   Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 10-8-214.   Cross references: (1) For the legislative declaration contained in the 1995 act amending subsection (1), see section 112 of chapter 167, Session Laws of Colorado 1995.   (2) For the legislative declaration in SB 18-131, see section 1 of chapter 100, Session Laws of Colorado 2018.
CO Code § 24-50-614 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-614. State Payments - Authority of Controller

 The state contributions to group benefit plans shall be paid monthly to the director by the state controller, who shall make a charge against the accounts of the state departments, agencies, and institutions for this purpose. Such charges shall be the amounts necessary to cover the state contributions, as defined in section 24-50-609, for employees and shall be made against both general revenue fund accounts and specific cash fund accounts as required.   Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1135, § 1, effective May 19.   Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 10-8-216.
CO Code § 24-50-615 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-615. Continuation of Previously Existing Benefits for Persons Absorbed by the State Personnel System

 Any other provision of law to the contrary notwithstanding, the director shall continue, as a benefits option, the existing group life and health benefits of any person employed by a state agency if such person has been or will be brought or assimilated into the state personnel system on or after January 1, 1972, until such time as similar benefits offered by the director to state employees pursuant to this part 6 are equivalent in benefit and economic cost to the benefits held by said person.   Source: L. 94: Entire part added with relocations, p. 1135, § 1, effective May 19.   Editor's note: This section was formerly numbered as 10-8-218.
CO Code § 24-50-618 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-618. Group Benefit Plans - Institutions of Higher Education

  A state institution of higher education, which, for the purposes of this section, shall include the Auraria higher education center established in article 70 of title 23, C.R.S., or a group of state institutions may establish and offer one or more group benefit plans, in addition to or in lieu of a plan contracted for by the director pursuant to this part 6, to employees of the institution or institutions who are in the state personnel system.      Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (1) of this section to the contrary, a state institution of higher education or group of institutions shall consult with the governor's office and provide to the director at least twelve months' written advance notice before the institution or group of institutions may: (2) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of subsection (1) of this section to the contrary, a state institution of higher education or group of institutions shall consult with the governor's office and provide to the director at least twelve months' written advance notice before the institution or group of institutions may:   Cease offering to institutional employees in the personnel system one or more group benefit plans that the director contracted for and that the institution or group of institutions offered in the preceding plan year; or    Offer to institutional employees in the personnel system one or more group benefit plans that were contracted for by the director and that the institution or group of institutions did not offer in the preceding plan year.       If the director concludes on the basis of actuarial data that ceasing to offer one or more group benefit plans as described in subparagraph (I) of paragraph (a) of this subsection (2) is likely, in the first year in which it is not offered, to result in an increase in costs for that plan or any other plan contracted for by the director, the institution or group of institutions may not cease to offer the plan or plans unless specifically authorized to do so by the governor. The director shall provide the conclusion, in writing and with copies of the actuarial data upon which it is based, to the governor's office and the affected institution or group of institutions no later than one hundred eighty days after the date on which the institution or group of institutions provides the notice required in paragraph (a) of this subsection (2).       It is the intent of the general assembly that the director will provide for employees of the state institutions of higher education and for all other state employees the most cost-competitive group benefit plans available.     Source: L. 2010: Entire section added, (HB 10-1427), ch. 408, p. 2020, § 4, effective June 10. L. 2011: Entire section amended, (HB 11-1301), ch. 297, p. 1427, § 22, effective August 10. L. 2012: (1) amended, (HB 12-1081), ch. 210, p. 906, § 12, effective August 8.
CO Code § 24-50-619 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-619. Continuation of Dental or Medical Benefits - Dependents of State Employee - Work-Related Death - Definitions

  As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:   "Employee" means a current employee as defined in section 24-50-603 (7) who has dental or medical benefit coverage pursuant to this part 6.    "State agency" means the department, commission, council, board, bureau, committee, institution of higher education, agency, or other governmental unit of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of state government that employs an employee at the time of his or her work-related death.    "Work-related death" means a death that is the proximate result of an injury arising out of and in the course and scope of employment at a state agency.       The dependents of an employee who dies in a work-related death are automatically qualified for the continuation of dental or medical benefits pursuant to this part 6 for twelve months from the end of the month in which the work-related death occurred, so long as the dependents had dental or medical benefits pursuant to this part 6 at the time of the employee's work-related death. The dental or medical benefits allowed to dependents pursuant to this section shall be the same coverage that the dependents were enrolled in at the time of the employee's work-related death.    The applicable state agency shall pay the cost of providing dental or medical benefits on behalf of the employee's dependents for the twelve-month period pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. The state agency shall make arrangements with the director or the director's designee to pay such costs.    The director or the director's designee may promulgate rules in accordance with the "State Administrative Procedure Act", article 4 of this title 24, for the implementation of this section.     Source: L. 2018: Entire section added, (SB 18-148), ch. 21, p. 272, § 1, effective March 7.
CO Code § 24-50-620 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 6 - State Employees Group Benefits Act|§ 24-50-620. Targets for Investment in Primary Care

 A carrier shall adopt appropriate targets for investments in primary care to support value-based health care delivery in alignment with the affordability standards developed in accordance with section 10-16-107 (3.5). The carrier shall consider the recommendations of the primary care payment reform collaborative created in section 10-16-150. Targets established under this section do not apply in the case of a nonprofit, nongovernmental health maintenance organization with respect to managed care plans that provide a majority of covered professional services through a single contracted medical group.   Source: L. 2019: Entire section added, (HB 19-1233), ch. 194, p. 2122, § 5, effective May 16.   Cross references: For the legislative declaration in HB 19-1233, see section 1 of chapter 194, Session Laws of Colorado 2019.
CO Code § 24-50-801 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 8 - State Employee Incentive Program|§ 24-50-801. Legislative Declaration

 The general assembly hereby finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to concentrate on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of state government in order to provide better service to the citizens of the state of Colorado, to increase state government productivity, and to decrease state government costs. The general assembly recognizes that one method of achieving a more efficient and effective state government is to encourage the involvement of state employees in the development of innovative ideas that will increase the productivity and service level of state government while decreasing the costs of state government. The general assembly realizes that employee incentive programs that reward state employees for innovations by allowing the employees to share the cost savings resulting from such innovations will help encourage employee involvement in making state government more efficient and effective. The general assembly further recognizes that rewarding state employees may also increase employee morale and enthusiasm, decrease employee turnover, and improve customer service.   Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 302, § 1, effective April 7.
CO Code § 24-50-802 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 8 - State Employee Incentive Program|§ 24-50-802. Definitions

 As used in this part 8, unless the context otherwise requires:      "Employee" means any employee within the state personnel system except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1). (1) (a) "Employee" means any employee within the state personnel system except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1).    "Employee" does not mean:   An employee of the office of state planning and budgeting, the office of the state auditor, the joint budget committee, or the department of personnel;    An elected official or member of the general assembly; or    The executive directors and budget officers of principal departments and their deputies or the presidents of any college or university and their deputies.          "State agency" means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, institution, or other agency of the state, including institutions of higher education.     Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 303, § 1, effective April 7.
CO Code § 24-50-804 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 8 - State Employee Incentive Program|§ 24-50-804. Development of Recommendations for an Employee Incentive Program

  In developing recommendations for the implementation of an employee incentive program, the state personnel director shall consult with representatives from the state personnel board, the office of state planning and budgeting, the office of the state controller, the office of the state auditor, and the four largest employee organizations representing employees in the state personnel system. The director shall also solicit input from employees and managers in the state personnel system and other affected parties.    The state personnel director shall include the following elements in the recommendations for an employee incentive program:   Criteria for eligibility for the employee incentive program;    A formula for calculating and distributing cost savings;    Employee protections against retaliation for initiating or participating in an employee incentive program;    A means of providing public recognition and financial compensation to employees whose innovations result in cost savings to the state;    A method for the centralized or departmental administration of the employee incentive program; and    A mechanism for returning an amount equal to fifty percent of the cost savings realized by any department as a result of an employee's cost-savings innovation to the Colorado taxpayers and for allowing the department in which the employee is employed to retain an amount equal to fifty percent of such cost savings.        Source: L. 2004: Entire part added, p. 303, § 1, effective April 7. L. 2016: (1) amended, (SB 16-189), ch. 210, p. 768, § 53, effective June 6.
CO Code § 24-50-805 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 8 - State Employee Incentive Program|§ 24-50-805. Institutions of Higher Education - Alternative Employee Incentive Programs

 Notwithstanding any provision of this part 8 to the contrary, the chief executive officer of a state institution of higher education may establish and implement an incentive program for employees, including classified employees, of the institution. At a minimum, the incentive program shall include the elements described in section 24-50-804 (2)(a) to (2)(e). An incentive program implemented pursuant to this section shall not be subject to approval by the state personnel director.   Source: L. 2011: Entire section added, (HB 11-1301), ch. 297, p. 1428, § 23, effective August 10.
CO Code § 24-50-901 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 9 - State Employees' Ideas That Improve State Government Operations|§ 24-50-901. Legislative Declaration

 The general assembly hereby finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to concentrate on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of state government in order to provide better service to the residents and taxpayers of the state of Colorado, to increase state government productivity, and to decrease state government costs and waste. The general assembly recognizes that one method of achieving a more efficient and effective state government is to encourage the involvement of state employees in the development of innovative ideas that will increase the productivity and service level of state government while decreasing the costs of state government. The general assembly realizes that employee incentive programs that reward state employees for innovative ideas by allowing and incentivizing the employees to share the cost savings resulting from such innovative ideas will help encourage employee involvement in making state government more efficient and effective. The general assembly further recognizes that rewarding state employees' ideas may also increase employee morale and enthusiasm, decrease employee turnover, and improve customer service.   Source: L. 2010: Entire part added, (HB 10-1264), ch. 284, p. 1329, § 1, effective August 11.
CO Code § 24-50-902 (2021)
2021 Colorado Code|Title 24 - Government - State|Article 50 - State Personnel System - Department of Personnel|Part 9 - State Employees' Ideas That Improve State Government Operations|§ 24-50-902. Definitions

 As used in this part 9, unless the context otherwise requires:      "Employee" means, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), all state employees, including those employees within the state personnel system and those exempt from the state personnel system as specified in section 13 (2) of article XII of the state constitution. (1) (a) "Employee" means, except as provided in paragraph (b) of this subsection (1), all state employees, including those employees within the state personnel system and those exempt from the state personnel system as specified in section 13 (2) of article XII of the state constitution.    "Employee" does not include:   An employee of the office of state planning and budgeting, the office of the state auditor, the joint budget committee, or the department of personnel;    An elected official or member of the general assembly;    The executive director, program manager, division director, or budget officer of a principal department; or    An employee of a governing board of an institution of higher education or a higher education institutional system, an employee of an institution of higher education or of a higher education institutional system, or an employee of the Auraria higher education center created in article 70 of title 23, C.R.S.          "Executive director" means a state agency's executive director or similar senior level manager or managing director.    "Idea application" means the application described in section 24-50-903 (1)(a).    "Projected savings" means an amount calculated by a state agency that may be realized by the agency directly as a result of an employee's idea application.    "Savings realized" means an amount calculated by a state agency that was actually realized by the agency directly as a result of an employee's idea application.    "State agency" means any department, board, bureau, commission, division, institution, office, or other agency of the executive, legislative, and judicial branch of the state government. "State agency" shall not include an institution of higher education.     Source: L. 2010: Entire part added, (HB 10-1264), ch. 284, p. 1330, § 1, effective August 11. L. 2011: (1)(b) and (6) amended, (HB 11-1301), ch. 297, p. 1427, § 21, effective August 10.