California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 1 - Administrative Personnel › Chapter 2 - Board of Administration of Public Employees' Retirement System › Subchapter 3 - Public Employees' Medical and Hospital Care Act Regulations › Article 1 - Definitions, Coverage, Enrollment, Conversion, Minimum Standards, Alternative Benefit Plans, Contributions, Contingency Reserve Fund, Contracting Agency Participation and Medicare Part B › Section 599.503 - Effective Date of Enrollment

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Normal Effective Date. The effective date
					 of enrollment, re-enrollment, or change of enrollment shall be the first of the
					 month following the date the employee or annuitant's Health Benefits Plan
					 Enrollment Form is received in the employing office, subject to deferral under
					 subsection (b) of this section. An enrollment shall not become effective if
					 payroll deduction is not accomplished within six months following the date on
					 which such enrollment would normally have become effective.
(b) Deferred Effective Date. The effective
					 date of enrollment of an employee or annuitant who, in the month preceding that
					 in which his or her enrollment would otherwise be effective, has insufficient
					 earnings after all other mandatory deductions to permit deduction of his or her
					 full contributions, shall be the first day of the month following that in which
					 his or her earnings after other mandatory deductions are sufficient to permit
					 such deduction. This applies to an employee hired on the last day of the month
					 which is also the first day of a pay period.
(c) Effective Date of Enrollment of a Newborn
					 Child or Adopted Child of an Employee or Annuitant Enrolled for Self and One or
					 More Family Members. Notwithstanding the effective date of enrollment as
					 otherwise specified in this section, and without requirement of any prior
					 enrolling action, enrollment of a newborn child or adopted child of an employee
					 or annuitant who has enrolled family members shall be effective on the date of
					 birth or the date physical custody is obtained, and any increase in premium
					 because of the addition of such family member shall be effective on the first
					 of the following month.
(d)
					 Effective Date of Enrollment of an Annuitant on Approval of Retirement. The
					 effective date of enrollment of an annuitant under Section
					 599.502(c)(3) is
					 the first of the month following the month in which retirement is approved, but
					 in no event earlier than the first day of the month following the effective
					 date of retirement.
(e) Effective
					 Date of Enrollment of an Eligible Family Member (other than an adopted or
					 newborn child). The effective date of a change of enrollment adding an eligible
					 family member, other than an adopted or a newborn child, shall be the first of
					 the month following the date the Health Benefits Plan Enrollment Form is
					 received in the employing office. Enrollment of an eligible family member may
					 not be earlier than the first day of the month following the acquisition of the
					 family member.
(f) Contracting
					 Agency Employees and Annuitants. Enrollments of a contracting agency's
					 employees and annuitants which are received in the office of the Board on or
					 before the last day of the month immediately preceding the effective date of
					 the agency's participation under the Act shall be effective on the effective
					 date of such agency participation.
(g) Effective Date of Enrollment of a Newborn
					 Child or Adopted Child of an Employee or Annuitant Enrolled for Self Only. The
					 effective date of enrollment of a newborn or adopted child of an employee or
					 annuitant enrolled for self only shall be the first day of the month following
					 the date of birth or the date physical custody is obtained. Any premium
					 increase resulting from the enrollment of such child shall be due from the
					 effective date of enrollment.
(h)
					 Effective Date in Open Enrollment Period. The effective date of enrollment in
					 special or limited open enrollment period shall be fixed by the Board in its
					 action providing such open enrollment period.
1.
						Amendment filed 6-15-79; designated effective 8-1-79 (Register 79, No. 24). For
						prior history, see Register 75, No. 19.
2. Amendment filed 6-27-80;
						designated effective 8-1-80 (Register 80, No. 26).
3. Amendment of
						subsections (e) and (g)-(j) filed 6-9-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter
						(Register 86, No. 24).
4. Change without regulatory effect amending
						subsection (d) and NOTE filed 10-31-2006 pursuant to section
						100, title 1, California Code of
						Regulations (Register 2006, No. 44).
5. Repealer of subsection (c),
						subsection relettering, amendment of newly designated subsection (d) and
						amendment of NOTE filed 2-28-2020; operative 4-1-2020 (Register 2020, No.
						9).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						  22794,
						  22796,
						  22846 and
						  22860,
						  Government Code. Reference: Section
						  22846,
						  Government Code.