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North Dakota House Bill HB1371

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1-Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota
2-In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
3-HOUSE BILL NO. 1371
4-(Representatives Hauck, Dockter, Heinert, Marschall, Vetter)
5-(Senator Larson)
6-AN ACT to provide for a legislative management study relating to providing uniform group insurance
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3+Adopted by the Government and
4+Veterans Affairs Committee
5+Sixty-ninth
6+February 13, 2025
7+Legislative Assembly
8+of North Dakota
9+Introduced by
10+Representatives Hauck, Dockter, Heinert, Marschall, Vetter
11+Senator Larson
12+A BILL for an Act to amend and reenact section 54-52.1-02 of the North Dakota Century Code,
13+relating to uniform group insurance program benefits for retired peace officers.for an Act to
14+provide for a legislative management study relating to providing uniform group insurance
715 program health insurance benefits coverage for retired peace officers.
816 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA:
9-SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT
10-SYSTEM UNIFORM GROUP INSURANCE PROGRAM HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR
11-RETIRED PEACE OFFICERS. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative management shall consider
12-studying the impact of providing uniform group insurance program health insurance benefits for retired
13-peace officers. The study must include a thorough review of benefits provided for peace officers and
14-consideration of health insurance benefit options, premium costs, eligibility requirements for retirement,
15-years of service limitations, eligibility for Medicare, potential costs to the state and political subdivisions,
16-the effect of providing benefits on recruitment and retention, any impact on the state's financial reporting
17-of postemployment benefit-related unfunded liability, and establishing a retired peace officer health
18-insurance pool. The legislative management shall reports its findings and recommendations, together
19-with any legislation necessary to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative
20-assembly. H. B. NO. 1371 - PAGE 2
21-____________________________ ____________________________
22-Speaker of the House President of the Senate
23-____________________________ ____________________________
24-Chief Clerk of the House Secretary of the Senate
25-This certifies that the within bill originated in the House of Representatives of the Sixty-ninth Legislative
26-Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as House Bill No. 1371.
27-House Vote: Yeas 57 Nays 32 Absent 5
28-Senate Vote:Yeas 45 Nays 1 Absent 1
29-____________________________
30-Chief Clerk of the House
31-Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025.
32-Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.
33-____________________________
34-Governor
35-Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025,
36-at ________ o’clock ________M.
37-____________________________
38-Secretary of State
17+ SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 54-52.1-02 of the North Dakota Century Code is
18+amended and reenacted as follows:
19+ 54-52.1-02. Uniform group insurance program created - Formation into subgroups.
20+ 1. In order to promote the economy and efficiency of employment in the state's service,
21+reduce personnel turnover, and offer an incentive to high-grade individuals to enter
22+and remain in the service of state employment, there is created a uniform group
23+insurance program. The uniform group must be composed of eligible and retired
24+employees and peace officers, and be formed to provide hospital benefits coverage,
25+medical benefits coverage, and life insurance benefits coverage in the manner set
26+forth in this chapter.
27+ 2. The uniform group may be divided into the following subgroups at the discretion of the
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29+ 1. a. Medical and hospital benefits coverage group consisting of active eligible
30+employees and retired employees not eligible for Medicare, except for peace
31+officers and employees who first retire after July 1, 2015, and are not eligible for
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33+ HOUSE BILL NO. 1371
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56+Medicare on their retirement. In determining premiums for coverage under this
57+subsectionsubdivision for retired employees not eligible for Medicare, the rate for
58+a non-Medicare retiree single:
59+ (1) Single plan is one hundred fifty percent of the active member single plan
60+rate, the rate for a non-Medicare retiree family;
61+ (2) Family plan of two peopleindividuals is twice the non-Medicare retiree single
62+plan rate, and the rate for a non-Medicare retiree family; and
63+ (3) Family plan of three or more personsindividuals is two and one-half times
64+the non-Medicare retiree single plan rate.
65+ 2. b In addition to the coverage provided in subsection 1subdivision a, another
66+coverage option may be provided for retired employees not eligible for Medicare,
67+except for peace officers and employees who first retire after July 1, 2015, and
68+are not eligible for Medicare on their retirement, provided the option does not
69+increase the implicit subsidy as determined by the governmental accounting
70+standards board's other postemployment benefit reporting procedure. In offering
71+this additional option, the board may have an open enrollment but thereafter
72+enrollment for this option must be as specified in section 54-52.1-03.
73+ 3. c. Retired Medicare-eligible employee group medical and hospital benefits
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75+ 4. d. Active eligible employee life insurance benefits coverage.
76+ 5. e. Retired employee life insurance benefits coverage.
77+ 6. f. Terminated employee continuation group medical and hospital benefits coverage.
78+ 7. g. Terminated employee conversion group medical and hospital benefits coverage.
79+ 8. h. Dental benefits coverage.
80+ 9. i. Vision benefits coverage.
81+ 10. j. Long-term care benefits coverage.
82+ 11. k. Employee assistance benefits coverage.
83+ 12. l. Prescription drug coverage.
84+ m. Medical and hospital benefits coverage group consisting of retired peace officers
85+who are not eligible for Medicare and who are eligible for retirement, as
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120+ (1) As used in this section, a "peace officer" means a retiree who was a peace
121+officer as defined in section 12-63-01 and was employed in a permanent
122+position as a peace officer by this state or by a political subdivision of this
123+state for thirty-two hours or more per week, at least twenty weeks each year
124+of employment, and for at least twenty years of employment, regardless of
125+participation in a public employees retirement system program.
126+ (2) The board shall pay the full necessary and proper premium
127+amount to the proper carrier on a monthly basis for a retired peace officer
128+who is not eligible for Medicare but is eligible for retirement, as determined
129+by the peace officer's employer, to receive coverage through the uniform
130+group insurance program. The retired peace officer may not be charged by
131+the board for any portion of the premium amount.
132+SECTION 1. LEGISLATIVE MANAGEMENT STUDY - PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
133+RETIREMENT SYSTEM UNIFORM GROUP INSURANCE PROGRAM HEALTH INSURANCE
134+BENEFITS FOR RETIRED PEACE OFFICERS. During the 2025-26 interim, the legislative
135+management shall consider studying the impact of providing uniform group insurance program
136+health insurance benefits for retired peace officers. The study must include a thorough review of
137+benefits provided for peace officers and consideration of health insurance benefit options,
138+premium costs, eligibility requirements for retirement, years of service limitations, eligibility for
139+Medicare, potential costs to the state and political subdivisions, the effect of providing benefits
140+on recruitment and retention, any impact on the state's financial reporting of postemployment
141+benefit-related unfunded liability, and establishing a retired peace officer health insurance pool.
142+The legislative management shall reports its findings and recommendations, together with any
143+legislation necessary to implement the recommendations, to the seventieth legislative assembly.
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