State Employee Benefits Committee
Statutory Authority: 29 Delaware Code, Sections 5210(4), 9602(b)(4) (29 Del. C. §§5210(4), 9602(b)(4))
Group Health Care Insurance Eligibility and Coverage Rules, Rule 7.0 Higher Education Employees
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, pursuant to 29 Del.C. Chapter 101 and 29 Del.C. Sections 5210(4), 9602(b)(4), the Delaware State Employee Benefits Committee proposes to revise its Group Health Care Insurance Eligibility and Coverage Rules. The proposed amendment inserts a new sentence in Rule 7.01 that clarifies that coverage is retained under certain circumstances for public school or higher education employees through the end of the summer.
A public hearing will be held on the proposed revisions to the Group Health Care Insurance Eligibility and Coverage Rules on Thursday, December 5, 2002 at 1:00 p.m., in Room 112 of the Tatnall Building, William Penn Street, Dover, Delaware, 19901. The State Employee Benefits Committee will receive and consider input in writing from any person on the proposed revisions to the Group Health Care Insurance Eligibility and Coverage Rules. Any written comments should be submitted to the Committee in care of Deborah E. McCall at the State Personnel Office, Blue Hen Corporate Center, 655 South Bay Road, Suite 202, Dover, Delaware 19901. The final date to submit written comments shall be at the above scheduled public hearing. Anyone wishing to obtain a copy of the proposed Group Health Care Insurance Eligibility and Coverage Rules or to make comments at the public hearing should notify Deborah E. McCall at the above address by calling (302) 739-8331.
This notice will be published in two newspapers of general circulation not less than twenty (20) days prior to the date of the hearing.
State Of Delaware
State Employee Benefits Committee
Group Health Care Insurance
Proposed Revisions To Eligibility And Coverage Rules
7.01 Coverage ends on the last day of the month in which the employee terminates employment. A public school or higher education employee (less than 12 month employee) whose employment during a school year continues through the last scheduled work day of that school year shall retain coverage through August 31 of the same year so long as the required contributions have been made. In the event an Employee fails to make the required contributions for any optional coverage selected, coverage will revert to "Basic" coverage on the first day of the month for which the Employee failed to make the required contribution. If an employee works one day in the month in which they terminate, they shall earn state share for the entire month.
Please Note: As the remainder of the regulation is not being modified it is not being published.