PRINTER'S NO. 3667
No. 2476 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY HARHART, MAJOR, STERN, REICHLEY, MICOZZIE, DALEY,
MANN, ADOLPH, BEYER, BRENNAN, BUXTON, CAPPELLI, CARROLL,
CLYMER, CONKLIN, DeLUCA, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN,
GRUCELA, HARHAI, HARKINS, HARRIS, HENNESSEY, HESS,
HUTCHINSON, M. KELLER, KOTIK, KULA, McILHATTAN,
McILVAINE SMITH, MILNE, MUNDY, MURT, MYERS, O'NEILL,
PETRARCA, READSHAW, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, SONNEY,
J. WHITE AND WOJNAROSKI, MAY 2, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MAY 2, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 24 (Education) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for health insurance premium
3 assistance program.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 8509(b) of Title 24 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 8509. Health insurance premium assistance program.
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10 (b) Amount of premium assistance.--Participating eligible
11 annuitants shall receive premium assistance payments as provided
12 in paragraphs (1) and (2). Such payments shall be made by the
13 board to the participating eligible annuitants for their payment
14 directly to their approved insurance carriers. Such payments may
15 also be paid by the board, at the board's discretion, directly
1 to the participating eligible annuitants' approved insurance
2 carriers. The board shall have the right to verify the
3 application and receipt of the payments by the participating
4 eligible annuitants and their approved insurance carriers. The
5 premium assistance payments are as follows:
6 (1) Effective July 1, 1992, $55 per month or the actual
7 monthly premium, whichever is less.
8 (2) Effective January 1, 2002, $100 per month or the
9 actual monthly premium, whichever is less.
10 (3) Effective July 1, 2008, $200 per month or the actual
11 monthly premium, whichever is less.
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13 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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