HB1674ham001 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Rep. Travis Weaver

Filed: 4/11/2024

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1674

AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 1674 by replacing everything after the enacting clause with the following:

"Section 5. The Department of Central Management Services Law of the Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is amended by adding Section 405-545 as follows:

(20 ILCS 405/405-545 new)

Sec. 405-545. State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program.

(a) Within 6 months after the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 103rd General Assembly, the Department of Central Management Services, in conjunction with the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, the State Universities Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, the Judges Retirement System of Illinois, and the General Assembly Retirement System, may enter into a contract with a qualified and experienced administrator to establish and conduct a State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program to identify annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors, or dependents who are eligible for Medicare, but not enrolled in Medicare, and to assist those annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors, or dependents with enrolling in Social Security and Medicare.

(b) The State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program shall conduct an annual audit of the State health benefits program for everyone covered under the State Employees Group Insurance Program, the Teachers' Retirement Insurance Program, and the College Insurance Program for the purpose of identifying participants and their dependents who are eligible for Medicare under federal law. The Program shall also ensure that those annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors, or dependents who are eligible for Medicare are enrolled in Medicare with Medicare as their primary health care benefits coverage and the State Health Benefits Program being the secondary provider of their health care benefits coverage.

(c) The State Retiree Medicare Primacy Coordination Audit and Assistance Program shall assist any annuitant, retiree, benefit recipient, survivor or their dependents who becomes disabled, and is not enrolled in Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare, with enrolling in and obtaining Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare benefits. This assistance shall include, but not be limited to: (i) developing communication materials to educate individuals about Social Security Disability Insurance benefits; (ii) performing multiple outreaches to targeted populations; (iii) analyzing responses to determine Social Security Disability Insurance eligibility; and (iv) representing qualified individuals on their claim for Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare.

(d) The administrator shall provide the Department, the State Employees' Retirement System of Illinois, the State Universities Retirement System, the Teachers' Retirement System of the State of Illinois, the Judges Retirement System of Illinois, the General Assembly Retirement System, and the General Assembly with an annual report showing the number of annuitants, retirees, benefit recipients, survivors, and dependents who are transitioned to Social Security Disability Insurance and Medicare and the amount of savings realized by the State of Illinois.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect January 1, 2025.".