Date of Adoption: August 3, 2001.

Purpose: Amend WAC 182-12-200, including changes already made to WAC 182-12-132, which added the option for retirees to waive PEBB insurance while enrolled in other employer sponsored health coverage.

Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 182-12-200.

Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 41.05.160.

Adopted under notice filed as WSR 01-12-091 on June 6, 2001, and WSR 01-16-079 on July 25, 2001.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.

Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.

August 9, 2001

Melodie Bankers

Rules Coordinator

OTS-4928.1

AMENDATORY SECTION(Amending WSR 97-21-127, filed 10/21/97, effective 11/21/97)

WAC 182-12-200   Retirees may change enrollment in approved PEBB health plans.   A retiree, whose spouse is enrolled as an eligible employee in a PEBB or Washington state school district-sponsored health plan, may defer enrollment in PEBB retiree medical and dental plans and enroll in the spouse's PEBB or school district-sponsored health plan. If a retiree defers enrollment in a PEBB retiree medical plan, enrollment must also be deferred for dental coverage. The retiree and eligible dependents may subsequently enroll in a PEBB retiree medical, or medical and dental, plan(s) if the retiree was continuously enrolled under the spouse's PEBB or school district-sponsored health coverage from the date the retiree was initially eligible for retiree coverage:

(1) During any open enrollment period determined by the HCA; or

(2) Within ((31)) sixty days of the date the spouse ceases to be enrolled in a PEBB or school district-sponsored health plan as an eligible employee; or

(3) Within ((31)) sixty days of the date of the retiree's loss of eligibility as a dependent under the spouse's PEBB or school district-sponsored health plan.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 41.05.160. 97-21-127, 182-12-200, filed 10/21/97, effective 11/21/97. Statutory Authority: Chapter 41.05 RCW. 96-08-043, 182-12-200, filed 3/29/96, effective 4/29/96; Order 4-77, 182-12-200, filed 11/17/77.]

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