(1) The Public Employees’ Benefit Board may allow self-pay groups to participate in benefit plans available to eligible state employees, if the group meets a minimum participation level equal to 75 percent of the persons in the group.
(2) Nothing in subsection (1) of this section applies to:
(a) Any person or group of persons similarly situated exempted by state or federal law from any minimum participation requirement; or
(b) Any person or group of persons participating prior to January 1, 1992, in a benefit plan that was offered by the State Employes’ Benefit Board.
(3) As used in subsection (1) of this section, “self-pay group” means a group of persons other than state employees for whom the state makes no contributions for benefit plans under ORS 243.105 to 243.285. [1991 c.577 §4; 1997 c.222 §36]
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