GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 350

Short Title:  Supplemental Insurance Benefits/AB.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Soles.

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Referred to:  Pensions & Retirement and Insurance.

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March 10, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE LAWS GOVERNING EMPLOYEE INSURANCE COMMITTEES TO ALLOW FOR A CENTRAL EMPLOYEE INSURANCE COMMITTEE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 58-31-60(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Appointment of Employee Insurance Committee Members. – The members of the Employee Insurance Committee shall be appointed by the head of the payroll unit. The Committee shall consist of not less than five or more than nine individuals a majority of whom have been employed in the payroll unit for at least one year. The committee members shall, except where necessary initially to establish the rotation herein prescribed, serve three-year terms with approximately one-third of the terms expiring annually. Committee membership make-up shall fairly represent the work force in the payroll unit and be selected without regard to any political or other affiliations. It shall be the duty of the payroll unit head to assure that the Employee Insurance Committee is completely autonomous in its selection of insurance products and insurance companies and that no member of the Employee Insurance Committee has any conflict of interest in serving on the Committee. A committee on employee benefits elected or appointed by the faculty representative body of a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina shall be deemed constituted and functioning as an employee insurance committee in accordance with this section. Any decision rendered by the Employee Insurance Committee where the autonomy of the Committee or a conflict of interest is questioned shall be subject to appeal pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, or in the case of departments, boards and commissions which are specifically exempt from the Administrative Procedure Act, pursuant to the appeals procedure prescribed for such department, board or commission.
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Section 2.  Effective January 1, 1998, the employee insurance committees of the Department of Human Resources are abolished and shall be replaced with a single employee insurance committee, appointed by the Secretary of Human Resources, to represent all employees of that Department.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective January 1, 1998.  Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 58-31-60(b), as amended by this act, and except as provided in Section 2 of this act, employee insurance committee members serving on the effective date of this act may continue to serve until the expiration of their terms.