75R11380 DLF-D
By Hupp H.B. No. 978
Substitute the following for H.B. No. 978:
By Telford C.S.H.B. No. 978
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to the eligibility of certain higher education employees
1-3 to participate in group programs under the Texas Employees Uniform
1-4 Group Insurance Benefits Act.
1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
1-6 SECTION 1. The Texas Employees Uniform Group Insurance
1-7 Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance Code) is
1-8 amended by adding Section 13C to read as follows:
1-9 Sec. 13C. CERTAIN EMPLOYEES INELIGIBLE. (a) An employee of
1-10 a public community/junior college who is employed to perform
1-11 services outside of this state is not eligible to participate in
1-12 the group programs provided under this Act, unless the college
1-13 elects, in accordance with procedures adopted by the trustee, to
1-14 permit those employees to participate in those programs.
1-15 (b) For purposes of this section, an employee is employed to
1-16 perform services outside of this state if 75 percent or more of the
1-17 services performed by the employee are performed outside of this
1-18 state.
1-19 SECTION 2. Section 13(c), Texas Employees Uniform Group
1-20 Insurance Benefits Act (Article 3.50-2, Vernon's Texas Insurance
1-21 Code), is amended to read as follows:
1-22 (c) Unless expelled from the program under Section 13A of
1-23 this Act or ineligible for the program under Section 13C of this
1-24 Act, each part-time employee and each employee of an institution of
2-1 higher education who is described by Section 3(a)(5)(A)(x)
2-2 [3(a)(5)(A)(viii)] of this Act is eligible for participation in the
2-3 group programs provided under this Act upon execution of
2-4 appropriate payroll deduction authorization for the required
2-5 payment of premiums. An institution of higher education shall, at
2-6 the time of employment, notify each employee of the institution who
2-7 is described by Section 3(a)(5)(A)(x) [3(a)(5)(A)(viii)] of this
2-8 Act of the employee's eligibility to participate in the group
2-9 programs provided under this Act.
2-10 SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 1997, and
2-11 applies only to an insurance policy that is delivered, issued for
2-12 delivery, or renewed on or after that date. A policy that is
2-13 delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed before September 1,
2-14 1997, is governed by the law as it existed immediately before the
2-15 effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for
2-16 that purpose.
2-17 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the
2-18 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-19 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-20 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-21 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended.