(a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, and the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement, a municipality or a local or regional board of education may join together with any combination of other municipalities and local or regional boards of education by written agreement as a single entity for the purpose of providing medical or health care benefits for their employees. Such written agreement shall establish the membership of such group, the duration of such benefits plan, requirements regarding payment for such benefits plan and the procedures for a municipality or local or regional board of education to withdraw from such group and terminate such benefits plan. Such agreement shall not constitute a multiple employer welfare arrangement, as defined in Section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time. Any group established pursuant to this section shall not be deemed a fictitious group. As used in this section, “municipality” means any town, city or borough, consolidated town and city, consolidated town and borough or any district, as defined in section 7-324.
(b) Before a municipality or a local or regional board of education may enter into an agreement described in subsection (a) of this section, the legislative body of a municipality shall approve such an agreement in cases where: (1) There is an existing arrangement between a municipality and the board of education serving such municipality for the provision of medical or health care benefits to the employees of both the municipality and the board of education serving such municipality; or (2) a municipality and the board of education serving such municipality have separate medical or health care benefits plans for their respective employees and both such benefits plans are paid for by the general fund of the municipality.
(P.A. 10-174, S. 1; P.A. 11-67, S. 3.)
History: P.A. 11-67 amended Subsec. (a) to redefine “municipality” by adding “any district, as defined in section 7-324”.
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