00SPONSOR SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 345                                                                             
01 "An Act relating to state employee health insurance."                                                                   
02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03    * Section 1.  AS 21.55.010 is amended to read:                                                                     
04  Sec. 21.55.010.  Creation; membership.  There is established a nonprofit                                            
05 incorporated legal entity to be known as the Comprehensive Health Insurance                                             
06 Association.  Membership consists of all licensed hospital or medical service                                           
07 corporations in the state that offer subscriber contracts for major medical coverage, all                               
08 health maintenance organizations or other managed care arrangements approved by the                                     
09 director, and all insurers licensed to transact health insurance in the state that offer                                
10 policies for major medical coverage on an expense incurred basis.   If the Department                                  
11 of Administration has elected to provide health insurance benefits to state                                             
12 employees by means of self-insurance under AS 39.30.091, the state is included in                                       
13 the membership of the association.   All members shall maintain membership in the                                      
14 association as a condition of doing health insurance business, or being able to offer                                   

01 subscriber contracts or enrollment in a health maintenance organization or managed                                      
02 care arrangement, in the state.                                                                                         
03    * Sec. 2.  AS 21.55.500(10) is amended to read:                                                                    
04   (10)  "health care insurer" has the meaning given in AS 21.54.500  and                                              
05 includes the state if the Department of Administration has elected to provide                                           
06 health insurance benefits to state employees by means of self-insurance under                                           
07 AS 39.30.091 ;                                                                                                         
08    * Sec. 3.  AS 23.40.075 is amended by adding new subsections to read:                                              
09  (b)  Except as provided in this (c) of this section, the state and an organization                                    
10 representing state employees may not enter into a collective bargaining agreement in                                    
11 which members of the bargaining unit are exempted from coverage under the health                                        
12 insurance plan provided by the state under AS 39.30.090(a)(1) or 39.30.091.                                             
13  (c)  Subsection (b) of this section does not apply to a bargaining unit that had                                      
14 entered into an agreement that was in effect on July 1, 1999, that exempted members                                     
15 of the bargaining unit from coverage under the health insurance plan provided by the                                    
16 state.                                                                                                                  
17    * Sec. 4.  The uncodified law of the State of Alaska is amended by adding a new section                            
18 to read:                                                                                                                
19  NO EFFECT ON CURRENT AGREEMENTS.  Nothing in this Act terminates or                                                    
20 modifies the terms of a collective bargaining agreement in effect on the effective date of this                         
21 Act.