(1) Any employee eligible for membership in the Health Insurance Plan, Dental Insurance Plan or Life Insurance Plan upon its effective date shall be enrolled in the plan unless the employee elects not to be enrolled within thirty (30) days of the effective dates. The employee shall be advised of Health Maintenance Organization prepaid plans available as an alternative to the state self-insured Health Insurance Plan. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall establish the procedure by which eligible employees not electing to be enrolled initially in the Health Insurance Plan, Dental Insurance Plan or Life Insurance Plan may be subsequently enrolled.
(2) Any eligible employee who is employed after the effective dates of the Health Insurance Plan, Dental Insurance Plan and Life Insurance Plan or HMO plans approved by the Office may become enrolled on the first day of the second month of employment.
Added by Laws 1967, c. 374, § 8, emerg. eff. May 23, 1967. Amended by Laws 1970, c. 70, § 7, emerg. eff. March 17, 1970; Laws 1977, c. 261, § 7, emerg. eff. June 17, 1977; Laws 1982, c. 333, § 7, emerg. eff. June 1, 1982; Laws 1985, c. 230, § 4, emerg. eff. July 8, 1985; Laws 1988, c. 165, § 7, operative July 1, 1988; Laws 2001, c. 197, § 3, emerg. eff. May 7, 2001; Laws 2004, c. 345, § 3, eff. July 1, 2004; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 945.