Amends GS 135-48.1(9), defining “dependent child,” as the title indicates.
Amends GS 135-48.41(g), 135-48.42, and 135-48.43 with regards to limiting health plan enrollment by eligible employees and eligible dependents to the annual enrollment period unless there is a qualifying event. Permits eligible employees to change their elections, including adding or removing dependents, during the Plan year only if there is a qualifying event as defined under federal law.
Repeals GS 135-48.5(c), subdivisions (a5) and (16) of GS 135-48.30, and Part 6 of Article 3B of GS Chapter 135 to remove the optional program of long-term care benefits. Makes conforming changes. Provides that any employee, retired employee, or dependent enrolled under long-term care at the time of the repeal of Part 6 of Article 3B of GS Chapter 136 (Part 6) is entitled to a nongroup plan of long-term care benefits. Authorizes the Executive Administrator and the Board of Trustees of the Plan to decide how the conversion rights are to be administered. Directs that any unencumbered administrative fees collected by the Plan under Part 6 be transferred to the Public Health Benefit Fund created under GS 135-48.5(a).
Amends GS 135-48.22(2) and 135-48.30(2) to make a clarifying change related to coinsurance as the title indicates.
Effective July 1, 2012.