LRB-1023/3
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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kirschbaum, BB0332 - Add WTC districts to joint self insured plans
For 2015-2017 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Higher education
Under current law, a city, village, town, or county (political subdivision) may, with one or more other political subdivisions, jointly provide health care benefits to their officers and employees on a self-insured basis if the political subdivisions together have at least 100 employees.
This bill allows technical college districts, under the same conditions, to join with other technical college districts to jointly provide health care benefits on a self-insured basis. The bill also allows technical college districts to jointly procure stop loss insurance and jointly self-insure stop loss risk.
For further information see the local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
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1. 66.0137 (4m) (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0137 (4m) (title) Joint self-insured plans and stop loss insurance.
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2. 66.0137 (4m) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
66.0137 (4m) (bm) A technical college district and one or more other technical college districts, that together have at least 100 employees, may jointly do any of the following:
1. Provide health care benefits to their officers and employees on a self-insured basis.
2. Procure stop loss insurance.
3. Self-insure stop loss risk.
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3. 66.0137 (4m) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
66.0137 (4m) (c) Any plan under par. (b) or (bm) 1. shall comply with the provisions listed in sub. (4).
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4. 254.11 (13) of the statutes is amended to read:
254.11 (13) "Third-party payer" means a disability insurance policy that is required to provide coverage for a blood lead test under s. 632.895 (10) (a); a health maintenance organization or preferred provider plan under ch. 609; a health care coverage plan offered by the state under s. 40.51 (6); a self-insured health plan offered by a city or village under s. 66.0137 (4), a political subdivision or technical college district under s. 66.0137 (4m), a town under s. 60.23 (25), a county under s. 59.52 (11) (c), or a school district under s. 120.13 (2) (b); or a health care plan operated by a cooperative association organized under s. 185.981.
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5. 632.895 (10) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
632.895 (10) (a) Except as provided in par. (b), every disability insurance policy and every health care benefits plan provided on a self-insured basis by a county board under s. 59.52 (11), by a city or village under s. 66.0137 (4), by a political subdivision or technical college district under s. 66.0137 (4m), by a town under s. 60.23 (25), or by a school district under s. 120.13 (2) shall provide coverage for blood lead tests for children under 6 years of age, which shall be conducted in accordance with any recommended lead screening methods and intervals contained in any rules promulgated by the department of health services under s. 254.158.
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