General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 32B Contributory Group General or Blanket Insurance for Persons in the Service of Counties, Cities, Towns and Districts, and Their Dependents
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purpose of chapter - Chapter 32B, Section 1
The purpose of this chapter is to provide a plan of group life insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance and group general or blanket...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 32B, Section 2
As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— “Appropriate public authority”, as to a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Traffic supervisors as employees - Chapter 32B, Section 2A
In cities and towns which accept the provisions of this section, traffic supervisors shall be considered employees under this chapter, notwithstanding the definition of “Employee”...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reserve, permanent-intermittent or call firefighters as employees - Chapter 32B, Section 2B
In governmental units which accept the provisions of this section, reserve, permanent-intermittent or call firefighters shall be considered employees under this chapter, notwithstanding the definition...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of group life, accidental death, etc., insurance policies; reinsurance agreements - Chapter 32B, Section 3
Upon acceptance of this chapter as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with and purchase, on such terms as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative services contract for payment of claims by political subdivision; claims trust fund; annual audit - Chapter 32B, Section 3A
A city, town, county, except Worcester county, or other subdivision of the commonwealth, when providing hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health care coverage as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Automatic insurance of employees; election to forego coverage; notice; withdrawal - Chapter 32B, Section 4
Each employee shall be automatically insured for at least two thousand dollars of group life insurance and at least two thousand dollars of group accidental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Amount of employee insurance coverage; schedules of benefits; determination; excess coverage, withholding of premium - Chapter 32B, Section 5
The amount of group life insurance on each employee and the amount of group accident death and dismemberment insurance on each employee shall be established...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees to furnish information; certificate or booklet of coverage - Chapter 32B, Section 6
Each employee to whom this chapter applies shall furnish the treasurer of the governmental unit, in such form as he shall prescribe, such information as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Premiums; withholding, contribution; direct payment - Chapter 32B, Section 7
(a) With respect to any period of insurance which is in effect for an active or retired employee and dependent there shall be withheld from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contribution and withholding for premiums; subsidiary or additional rate; payments in lieu of withholding; acceptance of section - Chapter 32B, Section 7A
A governmental unit which has accepted the provisions of section ten and which accepts the provisions of this section may, as a part of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dividends, refunds and rate credits to inure to benefit of governmental unit - Chapter 32B, Section 8
Any dividend or other refund or rate credit shall inure to the benefit of the governmental unit or to the governmental units participating under section...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dividends and refunds; deposit in employees’ group insurance trust fund; administrative costs; effective date - Chapter 32B, Section 8A
In any governmental unit which accepts the provisions of this section, all dividends, their equivalent and other such refunds accepted by the governmental unit from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Policy provisions - Chapter 32B, Section 9
The policy or policies of insurance shall provide that upon retirement of an employee, the policy or policies providing at least two thousand dollars of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Political subdivision; contribution for insurance premiums of retired employees - Chapter 32B, Section 9A
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners, a city having a Plan D or a Plan E charter by majority vote...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reimbursement of governmental unit for healthcare premium contribution received by retiree with creditable service attributable to service in one or more other governmental units - Chapter 32B, Section 9A1/2
[Text of section applicable as provided by 2010, 131, Sec. 200.] Whenever a retired employee or beneficiary receives a healthcare premium contribution from a governmental...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of employee or retired employee; continuation of insurance coverage by spouse - Chapter 32B, Section 9B
Upon the death of an employee or a retired employee, his surviving spouse may continue the group general or blanket insurance coverage for himself or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Death of fire fighter; continuation of insurance coverage by spouse; contribution by governmental unit; acceptance of provisions - Chapter 32B, Section 9C
Upon the death of an insured employee who was killed, or who died from injuries received, in the performance of his duty as a fire...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance premium payable by surviving spouse; contribution by political subdivisions - Chapter 32B, Section 9D
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance premium payable by surviving spouse; additional contribution by political subdivisions - Chapter 32B, Section 9D1/2
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance premium payable by surviving spouse; additional contribution by political subdivisions not accepting provisions of Secs. 9D or 9D1/2 - Chapter 32B, Section 9D3/4
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Subsidiary or additional rate; payment by political subdivisions; premium payment by retired employee; acceptance of section - Chapter 32B, Section 9E
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Retired local employees; life, accidental death and dismemberment coverage; acceptance of section - Chapter 32B, Section 9F
A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Surviving spouse of police officer killed in line of duty; continuation of group coverage; payment of premiums; acceptance of section - Chapter 32B, Section 9G
Upon the death of an insured employee who was killed, or who died from injuries received, in the performance of his duty as a police...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divorced or separated spouses; continuation of group coverage - Chapter 32B, Section 9H
(a) In the event of the granting of a judgment absolute of divorce or of separate support to which a member or subscriber of a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Employees on military leave of absence for active service; payment of premiums; acceptance of section - Chapter 32B, Section 9I
A governmental unit which has accepted the provisions of section ten and which accepts the provisions of this section as hereinafter provided, shall consider an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Acceptance of chapter by county, city, town, municipality or district - Chapter 32B, Section 10
This chapter, except sections seven A, eight A, nine A, nine C, nine D, nine E, nine F, eleven A, eleven B, eleven D, eleven...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Purchase of insurance by public authority following acceptance of chapter - Chapter 32B, Section 10A
The appropriate public authority shall provide for the purchase of insurance, or include the cost thereof, for dental expenses under those sections of this chapter...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Schedules of insurance benefits; establishment; joint participation; administration - Chapter 32B, Section 11
The appropriate public authority in each county, except Worcester county, city, town or district which has accepted this chapter shall from time to time issue...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Additional insurance; application; cancellation; conversion - Chapter 32B, Section 11A
Each employee insured for the minimum amounts of group life and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided in section 5, subject to such conditions...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance for elderly government retirees - Chapter 32B, Section 11B
Any political subdivision, subject to the provisions of section ten B of chapter thirty-two A, shall appropriate funds or apply therefor for the payment of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Optional medicare extension - Chapter 32B, Section 11C
Upon acceptance of this chapter as provided in section ten, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with and purchase on such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Accidental insurance for policemen and firefighters; payment of portion of premiums by municipalities - Chapter 32B, Section 11D
Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with insurance companies or savings banks and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Life and health insurance for retired teachers; appropriation of funds authorized; acceptance of section by political subdivisions - Chapter 32B, Section 11E
Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, any political subdivision, subject to the provisions of section twelve of chapter thirty-two A, shall appropriate funds...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disability income insurance for nonoccupational injury or disease; premiums; cancellation; dividends or refunds; acceptance of this section - Chapter 32B, Section 11F
Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with one or more insurance companies and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint negotiation and purchase of insurance by governmental units; trusts or joint purchase agreements for health care coverage - Chapter 32B, Section 12
Upon acceptance of this chapter as herein provided, the appropriate public authorities of two or more governmental units may join together in negotiating and purchasing,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1958, 558, Sec. 4 - Chapter 32B, Section 13
Repealed, 1958, 558, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rules and regulations - Chapter 32B, Section 14
The appropriate public authority in each governmental unit shall adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, as may be necessary for the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Insurance coverage for employees of governmental units; appropriation or expenditure of public funds for payment of premiums - Chapter 32B, Section 15
(a) Upon acceptance of this subsection by its appropriate public authority and subject to any necessary appropriation, a governmental unit, acting by and through its...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Optional insurance for services of health care organizations - Chapter 32B, Section 16
Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall enter into a contract, hereinafter described, to make...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Election to continue insurance coverages; notice - Chapter 32B, Section 17
(a) In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, an employee, in addition to the right of a deferred retiree status,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2011, 68, Sec. 53 - Chapter 32B, Section 18
Repealed, 2011, 68, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of retiree, spouse or dependent to Medicare health plan - Chapter 32B, Section 18A
(a) A retiree, spouse or dependent insured or eligible to be insured under this chapter, if enrolled in Medicare Part A at no cost to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Health carriers; contracts; public employee committees; agreements with public authorities; transfer of subscribers to commission - Chapter 32B, Section 19
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund - Chapter 32B, Section 20
(a) A city, town, district, county or municipal lighting plant that accepts this section may establish an Other Post-Employment Benefits Liability Trust Fund, and may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Manner of changing health insurance benefits; estimation of savings; approval of agreement; immediate implementation; time for review; distribution of savings; regulations - Chapter 32B, Section 21
(a) Any political subdivision electing to change health insurance benefits under sections 22 or 23 shall do so in the following manner: in a county,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Copayments, deductibles, tiered provider network copayments and other cost-sharing plan design features; increases - Chapter 32B, Section 22
(a) Upon meeting the requirements of section 21, an appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfer of subscribers to commission; notice; transfer to Medicare of eligible subscribers; withdrawal from commission coverage; group coverage provided by commission; deficit in claims trust fund by self-insured political subdivision; administration of coverage for transferred subscribers by commission; reimbursement of commission for coverage costs; withdrawal from commission - Chapter 32B, Section 23
(a) Upon meeting the requirements of section 21, an appropriate public authority which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers may elect...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Health care flexible spending accounts - Chapter 32B, Section 24
An appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers under this chapter may provide health...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Health reimbursement arrangements - Chapter 32B, Section 25
Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, the appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Enrollment audit - Chapter 32B, Section 26
An appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers under this chapter shall conduct an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Historical claims data - Chapter 32B, Section 27
An insurance carrier, third party purchasing group or administrator or the commission in the case of a governmental unit, which has undertaken to provide health...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Joint negotiation and purchase of coverage - Chapter 32B, Section 28
Nothing in section 21, 22 or 23 shall be construed to prevent 2 or more governmental units under a joint purchase or trust agreement from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual report on non-Medicare and Medicare plans with largest subscriber enrollments - Chapter 32B, Section 29
Each fiscal year, the commission shall prepare and place on its website a report delineating the dollar amount of the copayments, deductibles, tiered provider network...
Last modified: September 11, 2015