Sec. 2-71o. Group health insurance for temporary sessional employees. Payment. Regulations.
Sec. 2-71o. Group health insurance for temporary sessional employees. Payment. Regulations. (a) Any person employed as a temporary sessional employee by
the Joint Committee on Legislative Management may elect to participate in any group
hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan offered to full-time permanent
employees of the Legislative Department, provided such participation shall be at the
employee's own expense.
(b) On or after July 1, 1984, any such temporary sessional employee who (1) is
employed during both the sessional and interim periods, (2) was so employed for at least
two hundred days during the previous twelve-month period and (3) elects to participate in
any such plan, shall be eligible to have payment for the cost of such participation made
in the same manner and to the same extent as in the case of full-time permanent employees of the Legislative Department. The Joint Committee on Legislative Management
shall adopt regulations to implement the provisions of this subsection.
(P.A. 83-447; P.A. 84-356, S. 1, 3.)
History: P.A. 84-356 amended Subsec. (a) making it applicable to "temporary" sessional employees and added Subsec.
(b), providing that the state shall pay for such sessional employees' coverage as if they were full-time permanent employees
if certain requirements are met and granting the legislative management committee regulatory authority.