Title
PA 152 Election for 2025 Plan Year
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Agenda of: August 28, 2024
Item No.: 2024-259
Amount: N/A
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: August 14, 2024
RE: PA 152 Election for 2025 Plan Year
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Jordie Kramer, Chief Organizational Development Officer, and David W. Jones, General Counsel, the Board of Directors (Board) of the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), elects to comply with the requirements of Michigan PA 152 by adopting the 80%/20% option for the medical benefit plan coverage year commencing January 1, 2025 and running through December 31, 2025; and authorizes the CEO to take such other action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
"The Publicly Funded Health Insurance Contribution Act," commonly known as PA 152, MCL 15.561, et seq., (PA 152) applies to the costs related to GLWA's provision of employee health care benefits. PA 152 provides the following three options for complying with its requirements:
1) Section 3 of the Act, MCL 15.563, provides for a Hard Cap option which limits a public employer's total annual health care costs for employees based on coverage levels, as defined in the Act.
2) Section 4 of the Act, MCL 15.564, provides for an 80%/20% option which limits a public employer's share of total annual health care costs to not more than 80% of those costs. This option requires an annual majority vote of the Board prior to the beginning of the medical benefit plan coverage year.
3) Section 8 of the Act, MCL 15.568 provides for an "Exemption" Option - a local unit of government, as defined in the Act, may exempt itself from the requirements of the Act by an annual 2/3 vote of the governing body. This option is not available to the Great Lakes Water Authority as it is not a "local unit of government" as defined in the Act.
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