Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 3, September 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
KRS
161.158
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
KRS
161.158 authorizes local boards of education
to administer group insurance coverage for its employees.
KRS
161.159 requires the Kentucky Board of
Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to implement the life
insurance program for local school district employees. This administrative
regulation establishes requirements for Department of Education administration
of the group health and life insurance programs for certified and noncertified
employees of local boards of education and interlocal educational
cooperatives.
Section 1. Definitions.
(1) "Blended employee" means an employee
having:
(a) The expectation that he is to be
employed for the full school term (or the remainder of the school term) as
defined in
KRS
158.070 in a position with no state
certification required;
(b) The
expectation that also he is to be employed for the full school term (or the
remainder of the school term) as established in
KRS
158.070 in a position with state
certification required;
(c) A
combined work hours requirement equal to a minimum of seventy (70) percent of
the school day or month as established in
KRS
158.060; and
(d) Status as a beneficiary or participant in
either of the two (2) retirement systems, CERS or KTRS.
(2) "Interlocal educational cooperative"
means two (2) or more local boards of education governed by an interlocal
cooperation agreement described in
KRS
65.210 through
65.300
and formed to make educational programs and services more efficiently and
effectively available to boards of education on a multidistrict
basis.
(3) "Regular, full-time,
certified employee" means an employee with the expectation that he is to
perform duties for the full school term (or the remainder of the school term)
as established in
KRS
158.070, and the employment will not require
less than seventy (70) percent of the school day or school month as defined in
KRS
158.060.
(4) "Regular, full-time, noncertified
employee" means an employee having the expectation that he is to be employed
for the full school term (or the remainder of the school term) as established
in
KRS
158.070, and whose assignments require a
minimum of eighty (80) hours per school month as established in
KRS
158.060.
(5) "Unpaid leave" means leave time without
pay beginning the first day of the month following an employee's last paid
working day.
Section 2.
Group health coverage shall consist of a single contract or the single contract
dollar equivalent applied to any alternate plans of coverage contained in the
master contracts between the Commonwealth and the carriers.
Section 3. Group life insurance coverage
shall consist of benefit amounts as specified in the master contract between
the Commonwealth and the carrier.
Section
4.
(1) Regular full-time
certified, noncertified, and blended employees shall be eligible for state
contribution for health and life insurance premiums unless they are on leave
without pay from the local educational agency or interlocal
cooperative.
(2) For purposes of
administration of the group health and life insurance programs for local school
district employees:
(a) Leave without pay
shall include unpaid leave, unpaid sick leave, unpaid educational leave, and
unpaid leave while receiving Workers' Compensation benefits; and
(b) Unpaid leave shall include the beginning
of the first day of the month following an employee's last paid working
day.
(3) An employee on
leave without pay shall not be eligible for state contribution for health and
life premiums until the employee has actively returned to work from
leave.
(4) An employee who has
actively returned to work shall be eligible for state contribution for health
and life premiums when he returns to work at least one (1) day of the next
consecutive month after being on leave without pay.
Section 5. The extent of eligibility for
state contribution for health and life insurance premiums shall be based upon
the extent to which a position is funded with state or local (nonfederal)
funds.
Section 6. A local board of
education or interlocal educational cooperative shall provide the Department of
Education accurate employment data on covered employees on a month-to-month
basis.
STATUTORY AUTHORITY:
KRS
156.070,
161.159
