BILL NUMBER: AB 1109	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wilk

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 8910 to, and to repeal Section 22810 of, the
Government Code, relating to health benefits coverage.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1109, as introduced, Wilk.  Legislature: health benefits
coverage.
   Existing law, as added by Proposition 112, adopted June 5, 1990,
establishes the California Citizens Compensation Commission and
requires the commission to establish the annual salary and the
medical, dental, insurance, and other similar benefits of state
officers, including Members of the Legislature. The Public Employees'
Medical and Hospital Care Act, which governs health care coverage
available to public employees, specifies that a Member of the
Legislature is eligible to enroll in an approved health benefit plan,
as defined, pursuant to that act.
   Existing law establishes the California Health Benefit Exchange
(Exchange) within state government, specifies the powers and duties
of the board governing the Exchange, and requires the board to
facilitate the purchase of qualified health plans through the
Exchange by qualified individuals and small employers by January 1,
2014.
   This bill would instead provide that the only health benefit plans
available to a Member of the Legislature who is elected to or
serving in office on or after January 1, 2016, with respect to his or
her service as a Member of the Legislature, are health benefit plans
that are offered through the Exchange. The bill would require the
state to reimburse the Member of the Legislature for the cost of
coverage in an amount not to exceed the amount of the state employer'
s contribution for coverage for a Member as of December 31, 2015.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8910 is added to the Government Code, to read:
   8910.   Notwithstanding any other law, the only health benefit
plans available to a Member of the Legislature who is elected to or
serving in office on or after January 1, 2016, with respect to his or
her service as a Member of the Legislature, shall be health benefit
plans that are offered through the California Health Benefit
Exchange. The state shall reimburse the Member of the Legislature for
the cost of coverage in an amount not to exceed the amount of the
state employer's contribution for coverage for a Member as of
December 31, 2015.
  SEC. 2.  Section 22810 of the Government Code is repealed. 

   22810.  A Member of the Legislature may enroll in a health benefit
plan. The contributions of the member shall be the total cost of his
or her coverage and the coverage of any family members, less the
amount contributed pursuant to Section 8901.6 by the state.