Chapter 32B

Section 1. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a plan of group life insurance, group accidental death and dismemberment insurance and group general or blanket hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health insurance for certain persons in the service of counties, exce…

Section 10. This chapter, except sections seven A, eight A, nine A, nine C, nine D, nine E, nine F, eleven A, eleven B, eleven D, eleven E, eleven F and sixteen, may be accepted in a county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; in a city having a Plan D o…

Section 10A. The appropriate public authority shall provide for the purchase of insurance, or include the cost thereof, for dental expenses under those sections of this chapter which provide for the purchase of hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health insurance benefi…

Section 11. The appropriate public authority in each county, except Worcester county, city, town or district which has accepted this chapter shall from time to time issue rules and regulations establishing a schedule of group life, accidental death and dismemberment insurance for…

Section 11A. Each employee insured for the minimum amounts of group life and group accidental death and dismemberment insurance provided in section 5, subject to such conditions as the appropriate public authority shall approve, may be insured for amounts of group life insurance …

Section 11B. Any political subdivision, subject to the provisions of section ten B of chapter thirty-two A, shall appropriate funds or apply therefor for the payment of group general or blanket insurance providing hospital, surgical, chiropractic, medical, dental and other health…

Section 11C. Upon acceptance of this chapter as provided in section ten, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the governmental unit and its active and retired employees …

Section 11D. Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with insurance companies or savings banks and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the governmental unit and…

Section 11E. Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, any political subdivision, subject to the provisions of section twelve of chapter thirty-two A, shall appropriate funds or apply therefor for the payment of certain costs for group life and health insurance cov…

Section 11F. Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with one or more insurance companies and purchase on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the governmental unit and its …

Section 12. Upon acceptance of this chapter as herein provided, the appropriate public authorities of two or more governmental units may join together in negotiating and purchasing, as provided in section three, one or more policies of insurance providing the benefits set forth h…

Section 14. The appropriate public authority in each governmental unit shall adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this chapter, as may be necessary for the administration of this chapter. At the option of the appropriate public authority, a copy of any such pro…

Section 15. (a) Upon acceptance of this subsection by its appropriate public authority and subject to any necessary appropriation, a governmental unit, acting by and through its appropriate public authority, may offer its employees a policy or policies of group long-term disabili…

Section 16. Upon acceptance of this section as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall enter into a contract, hereinafter described, to make available the services of a health care organization to certain eligible and retired employee…

Section 17. (a) In any city or town which accepts the provisions of this section, an employee, in addition to the right of a deferred retiree status, or, conversion of insurance coverages to a non-group policy as provided in this chapter, and upon his involuntary termination of e…

Section 18A. (a) A retiree, spouse or dependent insured or eligible to be insured under this chapter, if enrolled in Medicare Part A at no cost to the retiree, spouse or dependent or eligible for coverage under Medicare Part A at no cost to the retiree, spouse or dependent, shall…

Section 19. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers by acceptance of any other section of this chapter may instead elect to pr…

Section 2. As used in this chapter the following words shall, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, have the following meanings:— ''Appropriate public authority'', as to a county, except Worcester county, the county commissioners; as to a city, the mayor; as to a town, t…

Section 20. (a) As used in this section, and section 20A, the following words shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly requires otherwise: ''Chief executive officer'', the mayor in a city or the board of selectmen in a town, unless some other municipal office …

Section 20A. When a governmental unit obtains an actuarial valuation report in accordance with GASB containing statements of the liabilities of the unit for health care and other post-employment benefits for its retired employees and their dependents, it shall submit a copy to PE…

Section 21. (a) Any political subdivision electing to change health insurance benefits under sections 22 or 23 shall do so in the following manner: in a county, except Worcester county, by a vote of the county commissioners; in a city having Plan D or a Plan E charter, by majorit…

Section 22. (a) Upon meeting the requirements of section 21, an appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers by acceptance of any other section of this chapter may include, as part of the heal…

Section 23. (a) Upon meeting the requirements of section 21, an appropriate public authority which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers may elect to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers by transferring its subscribers to the commi…

Section 24. An appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers under this chapter may provide health care flexible spending accounts to allow certain subscribers, as determined by the appropriate…

Section 25. Notwithstanding any general or special law or regulation to the contrary, the appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers under this chapter or transfer its subscribers to the com…

Section 26. An appropriate public authority of a political subdivision which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers under this chapter shall conduct an enrollment audit not less than once every 2 years. The audit shall be completed in order to ensu…

Section 27. An insurance carrier, third party purchasing group or administrator or the commission in the case of a governmental unit, which has undertaken to provide health insurance coverage to its subscribers by acceptance of sections 19 or 23, shall, upon written request, prov…

Section 28. Nothing in section 21, 22 or 23 shall be construed to prevent 2 or more governmental units under a joint purchase or trust agreement from jointly negotiating and purchasing coverage as authorized in section 12.

Section 29. Each fiscal year, the commission shall prepare and place on its website a report delineating the dollar amount of the copayments, deductibles, tiered provider network co-payments and other design features offered by the commission in the non-Medicare plan with the lar…

Section 2A. In cities and towns which accept the provisions of this section, traffic supervisors shall be considered employees under this chapter, notwithstanding the definition of ''Employee'' in section two.

Section 2B. In governmental units which accept the provisions of this section, reserve, permanent-intermittent or call firefighters shall be considered employees under this chapter, notwithstanding the definition of ''Employee'' in section two, and upon retirement shall be consid…

Section 3. Upon acceptance of this chapter as hereinafter provided, the appropriate public authority of the governmental unit shall negotiate with and purchase, on such terms as it deems to be in the best interest of the governmental unit and its employees, from one or more insur…

Section 3A. A city, town, county, except Worcester county, or other subdivision of the commonwealth, when providing hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health care coverage as authorized by this chapter, and subject to the adequacy of a claims trust fund as hereinafter …

Section 4. Each employee shall be automatically insured for at least two thousand dollars of group life insurance and at least two thousand dollars of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance and group general or blanket insurance, providing hospital, surgical, medical,…

Section 5. The amount of group life insurance on each employee and the amount of group accident death and dismemberment insurance on each employee shall be established by the appropriate public authority and shall be not less than two thousand dollars except that those employees …

Section 6. Each employee to whom this chapter applies shall furnish the treasurer of the governmental unit, in such form as he shall prescribe, such information as is necessary to enroll himself alone, or himself and his dependents, under the policy or policies of insurance. Each…

Section 7. (a) With respect to any period of insurance which is in effect for an active or retired employee and dependent there shall be withheld from each payment of salary, wages, other compensation, pension or retirement allowance, subject to the provisions of section nine A, …

Section 7A. A governmental unit which has accepted the provisions of section ten and which accepts the provisions of this section may, as a part of the total monthly cost of contracts of insurance authorized by sections three and eleven C, with contributions as required by sectio…

Section 8. Any dividend or other refund or rate credit shall inure to the benefit of the governmental unit or to the governmental units participating under section eleven in proportion to the gross premiums paid by each governmental unit.

Section 8A. In any governmental unit which accepts the provisions of this section, all dividends, their equivalent and other such refunds accepted by the governmental unit from the carrier or carriers as a result of any policy or policies entered into under the authority of this …

Section 9. The policy or policies of insurance shall provide that upon retirement of an employee, the policy or policies providing at least two thousand dollars of group life insurance and at least two thousand dollars of group accidental death and dismemberment insurance as set …

Section 9A. A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners, a city having a Plan D or a Plan E charter by majority vote of its city council, any other city by vote of its city council, approved by the mayor, a regional school district by vote of the region…

Section 9B. Upon the death of an employee or a retired employee, his surviving spouse may continue the group general or blanket insurance coverage for himself or his dependents providing hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health benefits, until the remarriage or death …

Section 9C. Upon the death of an insured employee who was killed, or who died from injuries received, in the performance of his duty as a fire fighter his surviving spouse may continue the group hospital, surgical, medical, dental and other health insurance for herself and her de…

Section 9D. A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of its city council, any other city by vote of its city council, approved by the mayor; a district, except as hereinafter provided, by vot…

Section 9E. A county, except Worcester county, by vote of the county commissioners; a city having a Plan D or Plan E charter by majority vote of its city council; in any other city by vote of its city council, approved by the mayor; a district, except as hereinafter provided, by …