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HOUSE BILL 2077
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State of Washington 52nd Legislature 1991 Regular Session
By Representatives Hine, Silver, Peery and Holland.
Read first time February 21, 1991. Referred to Committee on Appropriations.
AN ACT Relating to school district employee benefits; amending RCW 28A.400.275; and adding a new section to chapter 28A.400 RCW.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 28A.400.275 and 1990 1st ex.s. c 11 s 5 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Any contract for employee benefits executed after April 13, 1990, between a school district and a benefit provider or employee bargaining unit is null and void unless it contains an agreement to abide by state laws relating to school district employee benefits. The term of the contract may not exceed one year.
(2)
School districts shall ((annually)) submit periodically, but no more
often than every two years, to the Washington state health care authority
summary descriptions of all benefits offered under the district's employee
benefit plan. The districts shall also submit summary data to the
health care authority specifying the total number of employees ((and, for
each employee, types of coverage or benefits received including numbers of
covered dependents, the number of eligible dependents, the amount of the
district's contribution, additional premium costs paid by the employee through
payroll deductions, and the age and sex of the employee and each dependent))
in each bargaining group and in the nonbargaining group, and, for each such
group, the mean and range of district contribution, employee payroll deduction,
and total premium for insurance benefits provided to the employees in the group.
The plan descriptions and the data shall be submitted in a format and according
to a schedule established by the health care authority.
(3)
Any benefit provider offering a benefit plan by contract with a school district
under subsection (1) of this section shall agree to make available to the
school district the benefit plan descriptions ((and, where available, the
demographic information on plan subscribers)) that the district is required
to report to the Washington state health care authority under this section.
(4) This section shall not apply to benefit plans offered in the 1989-90 school year.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. A new section is added to chapter 28A.400 RCW to read as follows:
The superintendent of public instruction shall adopt rules to implement the intent of RCW 28A.400.275 and 28A.400.280.