California Education Code

§ 7000

EDC § 7000Div. 1 · Title 1 · Part 5 · Ch. 1 · Art. 1

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding Article 1 (commencing with Section 53200) of Chapter 2 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, a county superintendent of schools, a school district, or a community college district, which provides health and welfare benefits or dental care benefits for the benefit of its certificated employees, shall permit enrollment in, respectively, the health and welfare benefit plan or dental care benefit plan currently provided for its current certificated employees by any former certificated employee thereof who retired therefrom under any public retirement system and his or her spouse and by any surviving spouse of a former certificated employee thereof who either retired therefrom under any public retirement system or was, at the time of death, both employed thereby in a position requiring contributions to the State Teachers’ Retirement System and a member of the State Teachers’ Retirement System. This subdivision does not apply to either the new spouse upon the remarriage of a surviving spouse of a former certificated employee or the children of a certificated or former certificated employee.

(b)A county superintendent of schools or district may develop an experience claims rating for the persons specified in subdivision (a) and may, if appropriate, require those persons to pay different rates as a class. Any plan pursuant to this article shall provide separate single and two-party rates for at least the following classes: for those under 65, for those over 65 who have Medicare A and B, and for those over 65 who do not have Medicare A.

(c)The county superintendent of schools, school district, or community college district shall annually select a one-month period during which persons described by subdivision (a) may elect to enroll in, respectively, the health and welfare benefit plan or the dental care benefit plan or change their enrollment from one to another health and welfare plan or dental care benefit plan, respectively.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1990, Ch. 1372, Sec. 42.