PRINTER'S NO. 1601
No. 1341 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY BUSH, JOHNSON, AFFLERBACH, BOWSER, BELFANTI,
HALUSKA, TRELLO, ITKIN, MICHLOVIC, TRUMAN, BUNT, CARLSON,
LASHINGER, E. Z. TAYLOR, DEAL AND NOYE, JUNE 3, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, JUNE 3, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the continuation
3 of certain medical insurance coverage.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 71 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 5711. Extended medical insurance coverage.
9 A beneficiary spouse or a beneficiary dependent child who
10 survives an annuitant who elected to convert medical insurance
11 coverage under § 5905(h) (relating to medical insurance
12 coverage) shall have the option, upon the death of the
13 annuitant, to continue medical insurance coverage by having the
14 board deduct the appropriate annual premium charge in equal
15 monthly installments.
16 Section 2. This act applies to all annuitants.
17 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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