§ 5-10-18-4 — Required offer of health coverage; duration

(a) If an employer of a public safety officer
who dies in the line of duty after December 31, 2017, offers health
coverage for active employees, the employer shall offer to provide and
pay for health coverage under the health coverage plan provided for
active employees for the surviving spouse and each natural child,
stepchild, and adopted child of the public safety officer.
(b) The health coverage for a surviving natural child, stepchild, or
adopted child of the public safety officer provided under subsection (a)
continues:
(1) until the child becomes eighteen (18) years of age;
(2) until the child becomes twenty-three (23) years of age, if the
child is:
(A) enrolled in and regularly attending a secondary school; or
(B) a full-time student at an accredited college or university; or
(3) during the entire period of the child's physical or mental
disability;
whichever period is longest.
(c) If the employer of a public safety officer who dies in the line of
duty after December 31, 2017, offers health coverage to active
employees, the health coverage that the employer provides to a
surviving spouse and each natural child, stepchild, and adopted child
of the public safety officer under subsection (a) must be equal to that
offered to active employees.
(d) The employer's offer to provide and pay for health coverage
under subsection (a) must remain open as long as the employer
continues to offer health coverage for active employees, and:
(1) the surviving spouse is eligible for the health coverage under
subsection (a); or
(2) a natural child, a stepchild, or an adopted child of the public
safety officer is eligible for the health coverage under subsections
(a) and (b).

Legislative History

As added by P.L.111-2019, SEC.2.