Code of Alabama - Title 36: Public Officers and Employees - Chapter 29 - State Employees' Health Insurance Plan
- Article 1 General Provisions.
- Section 36-29-1 Definitions
When used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The State Employees'...
- Section 36-29-2 State Employees' Insurance Board; procedures for election of state employee members and retired members
The State Employees' Insurance Board shall consist of the members of the State Personnel Board, together with the Director of Finance, the Secretary-Treasurer of the...
- Section 36-29-3 Factors to be considered by board in design of health insurance plan
The health insurance plan provided for in this chapter shall be designed by the State Employees' Insurance Board to provide a reasonable relationship between the...
- Section 36-29-4 Establishment and provisions of health insurance plan; rules and regulations
The board is hereby empowered and authorized to establish a fully insured or self-insured health insurance plan for employees and retirees of the State of...
- Section 36-29-5 Expenses, treatment, etc., not to be included under plan
(a) Such health insurance shall not include any of the following: (1) Expenses incurred by or on account of an individual prior to the effective...
- Section 36-29-6 Authorization and execution of contracts; documentation of benefits
(a) The board is hereby authorized to execute a contract or contracts to provide the plan determined in accordance with the provisions of this chapter....
- Section 36-29-7 Payment of employer's contribution; coverage for dependents; changes to contributions; withholding of employee's contribution; State Employees' Insurance Fund
(a) The board is hereby authorized to provide under the provisions of this chapter that the employer's contribution to the cost of such plan for...
- Section 36-29-8 Optional inclusion by persons eligible for coverage; submission of false or misleading information
(a) All persons in the employment of the State of Alabama who are eligible for coverage under the provisions of this chapter and the rules...
- Section 36-29-9 Contracts to provide for health insurance for retiring state employees, spouses and dependents; adoption of rules and regulations for election by retiring employees or surviving spouses and dependents as to participation, etc., in plan
The contract or contracts shall provide for health insurance for retiring state employees and their spouses and dependents as defined by rules and regulations of...
- Section 36-29-10 Election by retired employees to continue coverage; payment of premiums
(a) Employees covered under the plan who retire from active service before January 1, 2012, and begin receiving monthly benefits from the Employees' Retirement System...
- Section 36-29-11 Payment of benefits under plan
Any benefits payable under the plan adopted may be paid either directly to the attending physician, hospital, medical group or other furnishing the service upon...
- Section 36-29-12 Rules and regulations; notice of denial of claim; review
The board shall promulgate such rules and regulations as may be required for the effective administration of the provisions of this chapter. The board shall...
- Section 36-29-13 Appropriations to board; recognition of Medicaid premiums paid by retiree
(a) There is hereby provided from the funds of the State Employees' Health Insurance Plan $1,592,605.00 (estimated) for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1985....
- Section 36-29-14 Health insurance coverage under State Employees' Insurance Board; operation of board
(a) Any agency of the state, or any governmental entity, body, or subdivision thereto, any county, any municipality, any municipal foundation, any fire or water...
- Section 36-29-14.1 Election by soil and water conservation districts to receive coverage for officers and employees
(a) The governing body of any county soil and water conservation district may, by resolution legally adopted to conform to rules prescribed by the State...
- Section 36-29-15 Coverage of members of Legislature, Lieutenant Governor and dependents; limitation of benefits; payment of premiums; rules and regulations
(a) Any member of the Legislature and the Lieutenant Governor, during their term of office, and their dependents, shall be eligible for coverage under the...
- Section 36-29-16 Group insurance for retired judges of probate and legislators; payment of cost
Any judge of probate who qualifies to retire from active service with a benefit from the Judicial Retirement Fund or any legislator shall be entitled...
- Section 36-29-17 Election by employees and officers of Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Board to receive coverage
(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 36-29-1, an employee or executive officer of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame Board and his or her dependents...
- Section 36-29-18 Generic equivalent medications
As a condition of participation in an insurance policy of the State Employees Insurance Board (SEIB) a pharmacist shall dispense a generic equivalent medication to...
- Section 36-29-19 Reserved
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- Section 36-29-19.1 The State Employees' Insurance Board shall maintain detailed records
The board shall maintain records in sufficient detail to accurately determine the total health insurance costs and the contributions toward health insurance premiums by employees...
- Section 36-29-19.2 The State Employees' Insurance Board may offer supplemental coverage
The board may no later than January 1, 2006, offer employees a supplemental coverage to other employer group health insurance coverage. (1) For employees who...
- Section 36-29-19.3 Surcharge on smokers; changes in contributions
A surcharge on smokers and users of tobacco products shall be added to the employee and retiree contribution by the board to be effective October...
- Section 36-29-19.4 Assistance to low income employees and retirees
The board shall provide assistance to low income employees and retirees who meet the federal poverty levels defined in this section, effective October 1, 2005,...
- Section 36-29-19.5 Premium deductions shall be pretax; transfer of funds
Employee's contribution to the health insurance premium shall be deducted from payroll on a pretax basis as permitted under Section 125 of the Internal Revenue...
- Section 36-29-19.6 The State Employees' Insurance Board shall constitute a body corporate
(a) The board shall constitute a body corporate for the purposes of management of the plan. The board shall have all powers and privileges of...
- Section 36-29-19.7 Retiree contribution based on years of service
(a) The board shall set forth the employer contribution to the health insurance premium for each retiree class. (b) For employees who retire other than...
- Section 36-29-19.8 Supplemental coverage for certain retirees
The board may offer a retiree a supplemental coverage to other employer group health insurance coverage and certain requirements shall be maintained regarding retiree health...
- Section 36-29-19.9 Continued coverage for spouse and dependents of covered person killed in the line of duty
(a) Notwithstanding any other laws to the contrary, a spouse and dependents of a person covered under the State Employees' Insurance Board (SEIB) health insurance...
- Article 2 Flexible Employee Benefits.
- Section 36-29-20 Legislative findings and intent
The Legislature finds that private employers have provided their employees with flexible employee benefit plans which provide a savings both to the employer and the...
- Section 36-29-21 Definitions
When used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) BOARD. The Flexible Employees Benefits...
- Section 36-29-22 Creation of "Flexible Employees Benefit Board."
There is hereby created the Flexible Employees Benefit Board, which shall consist of a state employee appointed by the Executive Director of the Alabama State...
- Section 36-29-23 Authorization to establish flexible employee benefit plan; provisions of plan
The board, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized to establish a flexible employee benefit plan for state employees in compliance with Section 125...
- Section 36-29-24 Authorization to deduct or reduce salary or wages designated by employee
In order to carry out the provisions of the flexible employee benefit plan or any long-term care plan, or both, the board or the head...
- Section 36-29-25 Rules and regulations
The board may promulgate rules and regulations concerning the selection of benefits offered and such other rules and regulations as may be required for the...
- Section 36-29-26 Payment of administrative expenses
In the event the board adopts and implements a flexible employee benefit plan which includes the offering of benefits in addition to health insurance premiums,...
- Section 36-29-27 Fund for administration of plan
The board is authorized to establish such funds in the State Treasury as are necessary to administer said plan and may deposit as necessary in...
- Section 36-29-28 Treatment of reduction under retirement systems
The amount by which a state employee's salary or wage is reduced pursuant to a salary reduction agreement authorized by this article shall continue to...
- Section 36-29-29 Board protection from liability
The board and the head of each department, agency, or county health department, and their employees shall not incur any liability to any employee for...
- Section 36-29-30 Authority to adopt flexible benefit plans
Counties, municipal corporations, county school boards and other political subdivisions in this state shall continue to have the authority to adopt flexible benefit plans for...
- Article 3 High Deductible Health Plan.
Last modified: May 3, 2021