2013 Senate Bill 30

Increase former legislator health benefit copay

Introduced in the Senate

Jan. 16, 2013

Introduced by Sen. Rick Jones (R-24)

To require lawmakers who have been granted post-retirement health insurance benefits (which start at age 55) to pay 20 percent of the cost of this, up from the current 10 percent copay. This benefit was recently <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2011-HB-4087">terminated</a> on a prospective basis, but 36 out of 38 Senators and a handful of current House members were exempted and will still receive the benefit when they leave office.

Referred to the Committee on Reforms, Restructuring, and Reinventing