{"data":{"id":"us-ca/gov-22844","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"GOV § 22844","heading":"","body":"(a) Employees, annuitants, and family members who become eligible to enroll on or after January 1, 1985, in Part A and Part B of Medicare shall not be enrolled in a basic health benefit plan. If the employee, annuitant, or family member is enrolled in Part A and Part B of Medicare, he or she may enroll in a Medicare health benefit plan.\n(b) Employees, annuitants, and family members enrolled in a prescription drug plan under Part D of Medicare shall not be enrolled in a board-approved health benefit plan. This subdivision does not apply to an individual enrolled in a board-approved or offered health benefit plan that provides a prescription drug plan or qualified prescription drug coverage under Part D of Medicare as part of its benefit design.\n(c) This section does not apply to employees and family members that are specifically excluded from enrollment in a Medicare health benefit plan by federal law or federal regulation.\n(d) The board shall not grant any further exemptions to this section after July 1, 2015.","path":["Government Code - GOV","TITLE 2. GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA [8000. - 22980.]","DIVISION 5. PERSONNEL [18000. - 22980.]","PART 5. THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEES' MEDICAL AND HOSPITAL CARE ACT [22750. - 22948.]","CHAPTER 1. Public Employees’ Health Benefits [22750. - 22944.6.]","ARTICLE 5. Enrollment and Coverage [22830. - 22849.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"f90e4b6c3ec28051a8cc04133d3c5bba8cb2fdd7205013becd0abaace28ff43f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/gov-22843","next":"us-ca/gov-22846"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}