GA Code § 45-18-7 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 45 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 18 - Employees' Insurance and Benefits Plans|Article 1 - State Employees' Health Insurance Plan and Post-Employment Health Benefit Fund|Part 1 - State Employees' Health Insurance Plan|§ 45-18-7. Retiring Employees, Spouses, and Dependents

 The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retiring state employees and their spouses and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the board, on such terms as the board may deem appropriate; and the board may authorize the inclusion in the plan of the employees and retiring employees of state authorities covered by the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia and their spouses and dependent children, as defined by the regulations of the board. Any state authority participating in the plan shall be required to pay the same rate of contribution paid by the state. The board shall adopt regulations prescribing the conditions under which an employee or retiring employee may elect to participate in or withdraw from the plan.   (Ga. L. 1961, p. 147, § 7; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1005, § 1; Ga. L. 2002, p. 1473, § 1; Ga. L. 2015, p. 422, § 5-98/HB 310.)    The 2015 amendment,  effective July 1, 2015, deleted the subsection (a) designation; and deleted former subsection (b), which read: "Employees of the state-wide probation system administered by the Department of Corrections who were employees of a county probation system of a county having a population of 800,000 or more according to the United States decennial census of 2000 or any future such census and who were members of a local retirement system and had ten or more years of creditable service under the local retirement system at the time the county probation system became a part of the state-wide probation system shall be eligible to continue coverage under the health insurance plan for the state employees upon retirement from a local retirement system by paying a premium set by the board. Such retired persons shall be eligible to enroll their spouses and eligible dependents in accordance with the regulations of the board. Such retirees shall be treated in the same manner as other retirees eligible to continue coverage under the Employees' Retirement System of Georgia. The board may promulgate and adopt rules and regulations governing continuance and discontinuance of coverage for such retired persons and their spouses and eligible dependents."   Law reviews.   - For article on the 2015 amendment of this Code section, see 32 Ga. St. U.L. Rev. 231 (2015).   OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL   Ineligible employees of state authority.   - Stone Mountain Memorial Association is an authority of the state, and association employees, being employees of a state authority not covered by the Employees Retirement System of Georgia, do not meet the eligibility requirements set forth in this section. 1975 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 75-6.1.   Withdrawal from plan.   - The State Personnel Board can adopt a regulation providing for a method by which state employees can withdraw from the State Health Insurance Plan after their initial employment. 1969 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 69-502.