Amendment H-8277 to HF 2680
Relating to public safety personnel retirement systems, the taxation of surviving spouse pension benefits, and including retroactive applicability provisions
Adopted · April 4, 2024
Filed April 3, 2024 in the House by
What it changes
AI summary This amendment adds a definition for cost-sharing and changes several mentions of medical care to include physical or mental care. It also changes a number from sixty-four to fifty-five and adds rules regarding how certain diseases are covered by employer health insurance and how tax exemptions for surviving spouses are applied.1
Read the amendment’s wording
- Page 2, after line 6 by inserting: “Sec. ___. Section 411.1, Code 2024, is amended by adding the following new subsection: NEW SUBSECTION . 8A. “Cost-sharing” means any coverage limit, copayment, coinsurance, deductible, or other out-of-pocket cost obligation related to an injury or disease incurred while in the performance of duties.”
- Page 6, line 24, by striking “sixty-four” and inserting “fifty-five”
- Page 7, line 13, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 7, line 19, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 7, line 32, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 7, line 33, after “insurance,” by inserting “including by processing claims concerning cancer, heart, and lung or respiratory issues described in section 411.6, subsection 5, paragraph “c” , through their group health insurance plan as long as the member is not responsible for any cost-sharing;”
- Page 7, line 33, by striking “obligation,” and inserting “obligation , ;”
- Page 8, by striking lines 1 through 4 and inserting “with the requirements of this section . However, the cost of the hospital, nursing, and physical or mental medical attention required by this section shall not be funded through an employee-paid health insurance policy , except as otherwise specified in this subsection. Cancers, heart disease, and lung or respiratory diseases described in section 411.6, subsection 5, paragraph “c” , shall not be deemed work-related for purposes of coverage through the employer’s group health insurance plan .”
- Page 8, line 6, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 8, line 9, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 8, line 10, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 8, line 23, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 8, line 31, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 9, line 2, before “medical” by inserting “physical or mental”
- Page 9, line 31, after “amount” by inserting “provided pursuant to section 97B.49B or 97B.49C, or chapter 97A, 410, or 411”
- Page 9, line 34, by striking “in the tax year” and inserting “in the tax year”
- By striking page 9, line 35, through page 10, line 2, and inserting “result of the death of the decedent , regardless of whether the decedent would have qualified for the exemption in the tax year .”
- By renumbering as necessary.