81R11237 PMO-D
By: Deshotel H.B. No. 3074
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to availability of health coverage for certain employees
of institutions of higher education.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Section 1551.101, Insurance Code, is amended by
adding Subsection (f) to read as follows:
(f) An employee designated by an institution of higher
education as an instructional employee working less than 40 and at
least 20 hours a week is eligible to participate in the group
benefits program as a full-time employee.
SECTION 2. Section 1551.319(a), Insurance Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(a) A full-time employee and each instructional employee
described by Section 1551.101(f) receives the benefits of a full
state contribution for coverage under this chapter.
SECTION 3. Section 1601.201, Insurance Code, is amended by
amending Subsection (c) and adding Subsection (c-1) to read as
follows:
(c) Except as provided by Subsection (c-1), for [For] an
employee designated by the system as working less than 40 hours a
week, including an individual employed by the system in a position
that as a condition of employment requires the individual to be
enrolled as a student in the system in graduate-level courses, the
system, from money appropriated from the general revenue fund, may
contribute:
(1) not more than 50 percent of the cost of basic
coverage for the employee; and
(2) not more than 25 percent of the cost of dependent
coverage.
(c-1) For a part-time instructional employee designated by
a system as working less than 40 and at least 20 hours a week, the
system may contribute:
(1) the full cost of basic coverage for the employee;
and
(2) not more than 50 percent of the cost of dependent
coverage.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2009.