Ind. Code § 20-26-17-5

Current through P.L. 171-2024

Section 20-26-17-5 - Compensation to producer or adviser; eligibility for coverage; collectively bargained coverage

(a) The following apply with respect to a school corporation's employee health coverage program:

(1) If the school corporation pays a commission, a bonus, an override, a contingency fee, or any other compensation to an insurance producer or other adviser in connection with the health coverage, the school corporation shall:

(A) specify the commission, bonus, override, contingency fee, or other compensation in the school corporation's annual budget fixed under IC 6-1.1-17; and

(B) make the information specified under clause (A) available to the public upon request.

(2) The school corporation may allow:

(A) members of the school corporation's governing body; or

(B) an attorney of the school corporation's governing body;

to be covered under the school corporation's employee health coverage program.

(3) Except as provided in subsection (b), all individuals insured under the school corporation's employee health coverage program:

(A) are eligible for the same coverage as all other individuals insured under the program; and

(B) to the extent allowed by federal law, may pay different amounts for the coverage.

(b) Except as provided in IC 5-10-8-6.7(b), a school corporation:

(1) may:

(A) make an assignment of wages upon the request of a school corporation employee in accordance with IC 22-2-6-2 to pay the school corporation employee's share of premiums for health insurance that is available to the school corporation employee as a result of a collective bargaining agreement:

(i) negotiated with the school corporation by a labor organization; and

(ii) under which the school corporation employee is covered; and

(B) pay the school corporation's share of premiums for the bargained health insurance; and

(2) is not required to make the bargained health insurance available to all school corporation employees.

IC 20-26-17-5

Amended by P.L. 143-2016, SEC. 1, eff. 7/1/2016.

Amended by P.L. 233-2015, SEC. 175, eff. 7/1/2015.

Added by P.L. 200-2011, SEC. 2, eff. 7/1/2011.