79R8551 KCR-D

By:  Averitt                                                      S.B. No. 1532



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the eligibility of certain educational employees to 
participate or be enrolled in certain group health benefit 
programs.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Section 22.004, Education Code, is amended by 
adding Subsections (k) and (l) to read as follows:
	(k)  Notwithstanding any other law, an employee of a district 
participating in the uniform group coverage program under 
Subsection (a) or providing group health coverage under Subsection 
(b) whose resignation is effective after the last day of an 
instructional year is entitled to participate or be enrolled in the 
uniform group coverage plan or the group health coverage through 
the first anniversary of the date participation in or coverage 
under the uniform group coverage plan or the group health coverage 
is first made available to district employees for the last 
instructional year in which the employee was employed by the 
district.
	(l)  If an employee's resignation is effective after the last 
day of an instructional year, the district and the Teacher 
Retirement System of Texas may not diminish or eliminate the amount 
of a contribution or salary supplementation available to the 
employee under Chapter 1579, 1580, or 1581, Insurance Code, before 
the last date on which the employee is entitled to participation or 
enrollment under Subsection (k).
	SECTION 2.  The change in law made by this Act applies 
beginning with the 2005-2006 school year.
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2005.