22-29-10: Group insurance contributions.

A. Group insurance contributions for school districts and charter schools shall be at least eighty percent of the cost of the insurance. Group insurance contributions for all other participating entities in the authority shall be:

(1) at least eighty percent of the cost of the insurance of an employee whose annual salary is less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000);

(2) at least seventy percent of the cost of the insurance of an employee whose annual salary is fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) or more but less than sixty thousand dollars ($60,000); and

(3) at least sixty percent of the cost of the insurance of an employee whose annual salary is sixty thousand dollars ($60,000) or more.

B. Within available revenue, school districts, charter schools and participating entities in the authority may contribute up to one hundred percent of the cost of the insurance of all employees.

C. Whenever a school district, charter school or participating entity in the authority offers to its employees alternative health plan benefit options, including health maintenance organizations, preferred provider organizations or panel doctor plans, the school district, charter school or participating entity may pay an amount on behalf of the employee and family member for the indemnity health insurance plan sufficient to result in equal employee monthly costs to the cost of the health maintenance organization plans, preferred provider organization plans or panel doctor plans, regardless of the percentage limitations in the Public School Insurance Authority Act. School districts, charter schools and participating entities in the authority may pay up to one hundred percent of the first fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) of term life insurance.