20.515 Employee trust funds, department of. There is appropriated to the department of employee trust funds for the following programs:

(1) Employee benefit plans.

(a) Annuity supplements and payments. A sum sufficient to pay the benefits authorized under ss. 40.02 (17) (d) 2. and 40.27 (1), (1m) and (3) in excess of the amounts payable under other provisions of ch. 40 and to reimburse any amounts expended under par. (w) for the costs of administering the benefits provided under ss. 40.02 (17) (d) 2. and 40.27 (1), (1m) and (3).

(c) Contingencies. A sum sufficient to make all payments due other parties under subchs. III to VI, VIII and IX of ch. 40 when the moneys for the payment have not yet been received by the public employee trust fund. The public employee trust fund shall reimburse this appropriation as soon as moneys are received for the cost of the payments.

(r) Benefit and coverage payments. All moneys credited to the public employee trust fund for payment from the appropriate accounts and reserves of the fund of the benefits, contributions, insurance premiums and refunds authorized by ch. 40 for the respective benefit plans. Estimated disbursements under this paragraph shall not be included in the schedule under s. 20.005.

(s) Benefit and coverage payments; employers other than the state; retired employees. All moneys received for health care coverage by the public employee trust fund from eligible employees, as defined in s. 40.02 (25) (b) 11., and from employers, as defined in s. 40.02 (28), other than the state, and their employees electing to be included in health care coverage plans through a program offered by the group insurance board for payment of benefits and the costs of administering benefits under s. 40.51 (7) and (10). Estimated disbursements under this paragraph shall not be included in the schedule under s. 20.005.

(t) Automated operating system. From moneys credited to the public employee trust fund administrative account under s. 40.04 (2), as a continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule to fund the design and implementation of an automated operating system.

(tm) Health savings account plan. All moneys deposited in the public employee trust fund relating to the establishment and operation of health savings accounts under s. 40.515 to be used for the payment of expenses relating to health savings accounts.

(u) Employee-funded reimbursement account plan. All moneys deposited in the public employee trust fund under s. 40.875 (1) (e), for the purpose of reimbursing employee-funded reimbursement account plan providers for claims payments to employees under the employee-funded reimbursement account plan and to pay costs under contracts with employee-funded reimbursement account plan providers.

(w) Administration. From moneys credited to the public employee trust fund administrative account under s. 40.04 (2), the amounts in the schedule for general program operations.

History: 1971 c. 40 s. 93; 1971 c. 125; 1973 c. 90, 151, 337; 1975 c. 39; 1977 c. 29, 84; 1979 c. 34, 38; 1979 c. 102 s. 236 (4); 1981 c. 96; 1981 c. 187 s. 10; 1981 c. 250; 1983 a. 27, 247, 255; 1983 a. 394 s. 2; 1985 a. 29; 1987 a. 27, 107; 1987 a. 403 s. 256; 1989 a. 14, 31; 1989 a. 56 s. 259; 1991 a. 269; 1995 a. 27, 88, 89, 240; 1997 a. 26, 27; 1999 a. 9; 2001 a. 16, 109; 2003 a. 33; 2005 a. 25, 228; 2007 a. 20; 2013 a. 20; 2019 a. 9.