HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3441        FILED ON: 1/14/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2479

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to optional life insurance for state employees..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

SECTION 1.  

Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law to the contrary, the Commissioner of the Group Insurance Commission shall create a committee to study the feasibility of establishing an optional life insurance program for state employees to purchase.

1. The committee shall consider the various plans employed by other states, any cost borne by the commonwealth, and level of interest of current employees, as well as any other issues relative to a program;

2. The committee may meet at a time and place, as determined by the Commissioner. The committee shall issue a final analysis and report to the Governor and Legislature no later than six months following its final meeting and dissolution