(a) Pursuant to standards established by the Department of Human Resources, the employing office of a state employee or state annuitant shall possess documentation verifying eligibility of an employee’s or annuitant’s family member prior to the enrollment of a family member in a health benefit plan. The employing office shall maintain the verifying documentation in the employee or annuitant’s official personnel or member file.
(b) The employing office of the state employee or state annuitant shall obtain verifying documentation to substantiate the continued eligibility of family members as follows:
(1) At least once every three years for the following family members:
(A) Spouses.
(B) Domestic partners.
(C) Children and stepchildren.
(D) Domestic partner children.
(2) At least once annually for other children for whom the state employee or state annuitant has assumed a parent-child relationship.
(c) For purposes of this section, the Public Employees’ Retirement System is the employing office of a state annuitant.
(Added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 28, Sec. 4. (SB 98) Effective June 24, 2015.)
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