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

Indiana § 20-26-17-5

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 20: EDUCATION
• Art. 26: SCHOOL CORPORATIONS: GENERAL
• Ch. 17: School Corporation Employee Health Coverage

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(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.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.200-2011, SEC.2. Amended by P.L.233-2015, SEC.175; P.L.143-2016, SEC.1.