PRINTER'S NO. 4010

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2876 Session of 1996


        INTRODUCED BY TRAVAGLIO, ITKIN, COY, MARKOSEK, OLASZ, BAKER,
           DERMODY, CORPORA, HALUSKA, STABACK, SAINATO, TRELLO, SHANER
           AND ROONEY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1996

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, SEPTEMBER 25, 1996

                                     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.
     9     * * *
    10     (b)  Amount of premium assistance.--Effective July 1, 1992,
    11  participating eligible annuitants shall receive premium
    12  assistance payments of [$55] $162 per month or the actual
    13  monthly premium, whichever is less. Such payments shall be made
    14  by the board to the participating eligible annuitants for their
    15  payment directly to their approved insurance carriers. Such
    16  payments may also be paid by the board, at the board's
    17  discretion, directly to the participating eligible annuitants'
    18  approved insurance carriers. The board shall have the right to

     1  verify the application and receipt of the payments by the
     2  participating eligible annuitants and their approved insurance
     3  carriers.
     4     * * *
     5     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

















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