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2004 Nevada Attorney General Reports and Opinions 1 (2004)

handle is hein.sag/sagnv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BRIAN SANDOVAL                   STATE OF NEVADA                    ANN WILKINSON
Attorney General     OFFI CE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL             Assistant Attorney General
100 North Carson Street
Carson City, Nevada 89701-4717
Telephone (775) 684-1100
Fax (775) 684-1108
ao.state.ny.us
E-Mail: aqinfo(aaq.state.nv.us
January 7, 2004
OPINION NO. 2004-01  PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS PROGRAM: RETIREES;
INSURANCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT: A.B. 286 requires
that all local jurisdictions provide health care plans for their
retirees, either through their own health care plan or through
PEBP, if the local government provides health care coverage
to its active employees. If a local jurisdiction does not
provide health benefit coverage for active employees, it is not
required to provide health benefit coverage for retirees.
However, if a local jurisdiction's plan for active employees
excludes retirees because it is a cafeteria plan, then it must
find another method to provide health care coverage for its
retirees. If a local jurisdiction terminates its health benefit
coverage with PEBP for its active employees and offers
health benefit coverage for those employees with another
plan, then it must also offer health benefit coverage in the
other plan to its retirees who are with PEBP. A.B. 286
requires open enrollment to be held for the entire period of
September 1, 2003, through January 31, 2004. Although
A.B. 286 does not specify an effective date, a date 30 days
after the close of the open enrollment period is
recommended. Local jurisdictions are required to offer
reinstatement to their retirees who are in PEBP during the
late open enrollment in even-numbered years, pursuant to
NRS 287.0475. Nonstate retiree survivors have the same
reinstatement right to the employer's health benefit plan as
nonstate retirees. A local jurisdiction is required to reinstate
survivors as PEBP participants after a retiree dies if the
survivors are offered coverage under the COBRA and are not
covered by the local jurisdiction's health plan after COBRA
expires. A local jurisdiction must subsidize its retirees in the
same amount as the State of Nevada subsidizes its retirees.

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