Read 1st time January 18, 2000, and 1000 copies ordered printed.
ANNE C. WALKER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 103.115, RSMo Supp. 1999, relating to health care coverage for certain former public officials, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 103.115, RSMo Supp. 1999, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 103.115, to read as follows:
103.115. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of this section, any former employee or any surviving spouse who is receiving retirement benefits from the Missouri state employees' retirement system or the transportation department employees' and highway patrol retirement system; or any former administrative law judge or surviving spouse of a former administrative law judge who is receiving retirement benefits pursuant to the provisions of sections 287.812 to 287.856, RSMo[, or sections 476.450 to 476.686, RSMo]; or any former teacher or surviving spouse of a former teacher who elected to remain in the public school retirement system pursuant to the provisions of section 104.342, RSMo, and who is receiving retirement benefits from the public school retirement system and is, or becomes, a member of the Missouri consolidated health care plan or an alternative delivery health care program provided by the board on behalf of the state shall, upon application with the board of trustees, be made, constituted, appointed and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retiree health and, in addition to duties prescribed in section 104.610, RSMo, or any other law, and upon request of the board of trustees, give the board, orally or in writing, a short detailed statement of physical, medical and health problems affecting retirees. As compensation for the extra duty imposed by this [section] subsection, each such special consultant as defined above shall receive, in addition to all other compensation provided by law, an amount contributed toward medical benefits coverage provided by the above-referenced plan or plans as appropriated by law.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section to the contrary, any person who formerly served
in a position described in subsection 1 of section 3 of article XIII of the Missouri Constitution who is receiving
retirement benefits from any state retirement plan administered by the Missouri state employees' retirement
system by virtue of such previous public service, who is eligible for Medicare benefits, as defined in section
103.089, and is or becomes a member of the Missouri consolidated health care plan or an alternative delivery
health care program provided by the board on behalf of the state shall, upon application to the board of trustees,
be made, constituted, appointed and employed by the board as a special consultant on the problems of retiree
health. In addition to the duties prescribed in section 104.610, RSMo, or any other law, and upon request of the
board of trustees, such special consultant shall give the board, orally or in writing, a short detailed statement of
physical, medical and health problems affecting retirees. As compensation for the extra duty imposed by this
subsection, each such special consultant shall receive, in addition to all other compensation provided by law,
medical coverage benefits coordinated with Medicare benefits for participants covered by Part A or Part B, or
both, of Medicare benefits, or reduced by an amount determined by the claims administrator to provide a benefit
equivalent to the amount which would be provided on a coordination of benefits basis for participants not covered
by Part A or Part B, or both, of Medicare benefits.
Missouri House of Representatives