2010 House Bill 6425

Establish government retiree health benefit obligation

Introduced in the House

Sept. 8, 2010

Introduced by Rep. Mark Meadows (D-69)

To create a contractual right of state employees to post-retirement health benefits covered by the segregated trust fund created by <a href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/2009-HB-4073">House Bill 4073</a>, now Public Act 77 of 2010. Although the state and local governments have said over the years that they would pay these benefits, courts have ruled that these are not enforceable obligations in the manner that pensions are, and until HB 4073 became law, no funding was set aside to pay them.

Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Investigations