H.B. 199

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LINE-OF-DUTY DEATH BENEFIT
2 2003 GENERAL SESSION
3 STATE OF UTAH
4 Sponsor: Ron Bigelow
5 This act modifies the Utah State Retirement and Insurance Benefit Act by allowing the
6 Public Employees' Benefit and Insurance Program to provide employee line-of-duty
7 death benefit coverage as part of the group life insurance program instead of purchasing
8 the coverage. This act provides an immediate effective date.
9 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
10 AMENDS:
11 49-20-406, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 250, Laws of Utah 2002
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Section 49-20-406 is amended to read:
14 49-20-406. Insurance benefits for employees' beneficiaries.
15 (1) As used in this section:
16 (a) "Children" includes stepchildren and legally adopted children.
17 (b) "Line-of-duty death" means a death resulting from external force or violence
18 occasioned by an act of duty as an employee.
19 (2) The beneficiary of a covered individual who is employed by the state and who [dies
20 in the line of duty] has a line-of-duty death shall receive:
21 (a) the proceeds of a $50,000 group term life insurance policy [in the amount of
22 $50,000 to be purchased by the program and] paid for by the state and administered and
23 provided as part of the group life insurance program under this chapter; and
24 (b) group health coverage paid for by the state that covers the covered individual's:
25 (i) surviving spouse until remarriage or becoming eligible for Medicare, whichever
26 comes first; and
27 (ii) unmarried children up to the age of 26.

28 (3) Any covered employer may provide the benefit under Subsection (2).
29 (4) The benefit provided under Subsection (2)(a) is subject to the same terms and
30 conditions as the group life insurance program provided under this chapter.
31 Section 2. Effective date.
32 If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect
33 upon approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah
34 Constitution Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto,
35 the date of veto override.




Legislative Review Note
as of 1-8-03 11:02 AM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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