104.352. Part-time legislative employees--insurance benefits--vesting service--deferred normal and partial annuities--requirements.
Part-time legislative employees--insurance benefits--vestingservice--deferred normal and partial annuities--requirements.
104.352. 1. Each employee described in paragraph (b) of subdivision(20) of section 104.010 shall be entitled to the same insurance benefitsprovided under sections 103.003 to 103.175, RSMo to employees described inparagraph (a) of subdivision (20) of section 104.010 to cover the medicalexpenses of such employees and their spouses and children. Such insurancebenefits shall be made available to employees described in paragraph (b) ofsubdivision (20) of section 104.010 upon their initial employment as suchemployees in the same manner provided for employees described in paragraph(a) of subdivision (20) of section 104.010, and shall be continued duringany period of time, not to exceed one year, in which such employees are notpaid for full-time employment, so long as such employees pay the sameamount for such insurance benefits as is required of employees described inparagraph (a) of subdivision (20) of section 104.010 who continue receivingsuch insurance benefits during a leave of absence without pay from theiremployment with the state. Any employee described in paragraph (b) ofsubdivision (20) of section 104.010 who is reemployed by the generalassembly or either house thereof, or by any member of the general assemblywhile acting in his official capacity as a member, by the thirteenthlegislative day of the session of the general assembly immediatelyfollowing the session of the general assembly in which such employee waslast so employed, without having elected to discontinue the insurancebenefits described in this subsection, shall be entitled to continue suchinsurance benefits without having to prove insurability for himself or anyof his covered dependents for whom he has paid for such coveragecontinuously since last employed as an employee described in paragraph (b)of subdivision (20) of section 104.010. Any employee described inparagraph (b) of subdivision (20) of section 104.010 who is not reemployedby the general assembly or either house thereof, or by any member of thegeneral assembly while acting in his official capacity as a member, by thethirteenth legislative day of the session of the general assemblyimmediately following the session of the general assembly in which suchemployee was last so employed, shall be deemed terminated as an employee asof such thirteenth legislative day, and the insurance benefits provided forsuch employee under this subsection and sections 103.003 to 103.175, RSMo,shall be terminated as provided for employees described in paragraph (a) ofsubdivision (20) of section 104.010 whose employment is terminated. Duringeach month of service in which an employee described in paragraph (b) ofsubdivision (20) of section 104.010 is employed, the state shall make anycontribution required by sections 103.003 to 103.175, RSMo, for suchemployee.
2. Any employee described in paragraph (b) of subdivision (20) ofsection 104.010 who is actively employed on or after September 28, 1992,shall be deemed vested for purposes of determining eligibility for benefitsunder sections 104.320 to 104.620 after being so employed for at leastsixty months.
(L. 1979 S.B. 1 § 2, A.L. 1981 H.B. 835, et al., A.L. 1984 H.B. 1370, A.L. 1985 H.B. 790, A.L. 1988 H.B. 1643 & 1399, A.L. 1992 H.B. 1574 merged with S.B. 499, et al., A.L. 2007 S.B. 406)