An Act To Allow School Administrative Units and Educational Advisory Organizations To Participate in the State's Group Health Plan
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1. 5 MRSA §285, sub-§1, ¶I, as amended by PL 2001, c. 667, Pt. E, §2 and PL 2003, c. 689, Pt. B, §6, is further amended to read:
I. Any licensed foster parent caring for a child or children in the foster parent's residence whose care is reimbursed through the Department of Health and Human Services for the period during which the child or children are in that foster parent's care; and
Sec. 2. 5 MRSA §285, sub-§1, ¶J, as enacted by PL 2001, c. 667, Pt. E, §3 and amended by PL 2007, c. 58, §3, is further amended to read:
J. Legislative employees that are recipients of retirement allowances from the Maine Public Employees Retirement System based upon creditable service as teachers, as defined by section 17001, subsection 42 . ; and
Sec. 3. 5 MRSA §285, sub-§1, ¶K is enacted to read:
K. Any employee of a school administrative unit as defined in Title 20-A, section 1, subsection 26 or of an educational advisory organization as described in Title 30-A, section 5724, subsection 9.
Sec. 4. 5 MRSA §285, sub-§1-B, as repealed and replaced by PL 2005, c. 636, Pt. A, §1, is amended to read:
1-B. Ineligibility. Except as provided in subsection 1, paragraph K and subsection 11-A, members of the Maine Municipal Association , members of the Maine Education Association and employees of counties and municipalities and instrumentalities thereof, including quasi-municipal corporations, are not eligible to participate in the group health plan under this section.
Effective 90 days following adjournment of the 125th Legislature, First Regular Session, unless otherwise indicated.