RCW 41.05.745
School employees' benefits board—Employee-paid, voluntary benefits—Optional benefits.
(1) In addition to the benefits offering authority under this chapter, the school employees' benefits board may study and, subject to the availability of funding, offer the following employee-paid, voluntary benefits:
(a) Emergency transportation;
(b) Identity protection;
(c) Legal aid;
(d) Long-term care insurance;
(e) Noncommercial personal automobile insurance;
(f) Personal homeowner's or renter's insurance;
(g) Pet insurance;
(h) Specified disease or illness-triggered fixed payment insurance, hospital confinement fixed payment insurance, or other fixed payment insurance offered as an independent, noncoordinated benefit regulated by the office of the insurance commissioner;
(i) Travel insurance; and
(j) Voluntary employees' beneficiary association accounts.
(2) The health care authority, in consultation with the school employees' benefits board, shall review the optional benefits reported by school districts as required in RCW 28A.400.280 and determine if the optional benefits are in competition with benefits currently offered under either the authority's or the board's authorities. If a school district benefit offering is determined to be in competition with the benefits offered under either the authority's or the board's authorities, the health care authority must inform the school district of the benefits conflict and work with the school district, and the applicable carrier, to either modify and remove competing components of the district-based benefit or end the district-based offering. If a carrier is in the process of modifying benefits, including seeking any required regulatory approval, a school district may continue to offer the original benefit.
(3) Specified disease or illness-triggered fixed payment insurance, hospital confinement fixed payment insurance, or other fixed payment insurance offered pursuant to this section as an independent, noncoordinated benefit is not a health plan as defined in RCW 48.43.005.
[ 2020 c 231 § 3.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 41 - Public Employment, Civil Service, and Pensions
Chapter 41.05 - State Health Care Authority.
41.05.004 - Intent—Use of word "board."
41.05.008 - Duties of employing agencies.
41.05.009 - Determination of employee or school employee eligibility for benefits.
41.05.0091 - Eligibility exists prior to January 1, 2010.
41.05.013 - State purchased health care programs—Uniform policies—Report to the legislature.
41.05.014 - Applications, enrollment forms, and eligibility certification documents—Signatures.
41.05.015 - Medical director—Appointment of personnel.
41.05.017 - Provisions applicable to health plans offered under this chapter.
41.05.022 - State agent for purchasing health services—Single community-rated risk pool.
41.05.023 - Chronic care management program—Uniform medical plan—Definitions.
41.05.031 - Agencies to establish health care information systems.
41.05.033 - Shared decision-making demonstration project—Preference-sensitive care.
41.05.036 - Health information—Definitions.
41.05.037 - Nurse hotline, when funded.
41.05.039 - Health information—Secure access—Lead organization—Administrator's duties.
41.05.042 - Health information—Processes, guidelines, and standards.
41.05.046 - Health information—Conflict with federal requirements.
41.05.050 - Contributions for employees and dependents—Definitions.
41.05.055 - Public employees' benefits board—Members.
41.05.065 - Public employees' benefits board—Duties—Eligibility—Definitions—Penalties.
41.05.066 - Domestic partner benefits.
41.05.068 - Federal employer incentive program—Authority to participate.
41.05.085 - Retired state employee and retired or disabled school employee health insurance subsidy.
41.05.095 - Coverage for dependents under the age of twenty-six.
41.05.100 - Chapter not applicable to certain employees of Cooperative Extension Service.
41.05.110 - Chapter not applicable to officers and employees of state convention and trade center.
41.05.120 - Public employees' and retirees' insurance account—School employees' insurance account.
41.05.140 - Payment of claims—Self-insurance—Insurance reserve fund created.
41.05.165 - Rules—Insurance benefit reimbursement.
41.05.170 - Neurodevelopmental therapies—Employer-sponsored group contracts.
41.05.175 - Prescribed, self-administered anticancer medication.
41.05.177 - Prostate cancer screening—Required coverage.
41.05.180 - Mammograms—Insurance coverage.
41.05.183 - General anesthesia services for dental procedures—Public employee benefit plans.
41.05.185 - Diabetes benefits—State purchased health care.
41.05.188 - Eosinophilic gastrointestinal associated disorder—Elemental formula.
41.05.195 - Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
41.05.197 - Medicare supplemental insurance policies.
41.05.205 - Tricare supplemental insurance policy—Authority to offer—Rules.
41.05.225 - Blind licensees in the business enterprises program—Plan of health insurance.
41.05.240 - American Indian health care delivery plan.
41.05.280 - Department of corrections—Inmate health care.
41.05.295 - Dependent care assistance program—Health care authority—Powers, duties, and functions.
41.05.300 - Salary reduction agreements—Authorized.
41.05.310 - Salary reduction plan—Policies and procedures—Plan document.
41.05.320 - Salary reduction plan—Eligibility—Participation, withdrawal.
41.05.330 - Salary reduction plan—Accounts and records.
41.05.340 - Salary reduction plan—Termination—Amendment.
41.05.350 - Salary reduction plan—Rules.
41.05.360 - Salary reduction plan—Construction.
41.05.405 - Public option plans—Availability—Hospital contracts—Recommendations.
41.05.410 - Qualified health plans—Contract for—Requirements—Cost and quality data.
41.05.413 - Qualified health plans—Reimbursement limit—Waiver.
41.05.420 - Plan of health care coverage—Prescription insulin drug cost limits—Cost sharing.
41.05.430 - Plan of health care coverage—Immediate postpartum contraception devices.
41.05.520 - Pharmacy connection program—Notice.
41.05.525 - Treatment of opioid use disorder—Prior authorization.
41.05.527 - Opioid overdose reversal medication bulk purchasing and distribution program.
41.05.530 - Prescription drug assistance, education—Rules.
41.05.540 - State employee health program—Requirements—Report.
41.05.600 - Mental health services—Definition—Coverage required, when.
41.05.601 - Mental health services—Rules.
41.05.630 - Annual report of customer service complaints and appeals.
41.05.660 - Community health care collaborative grant program—Award and disbursement of grants.
41.05.670 - Chronic care management incentives—Provider reimbursement methods.
41.05.680 - Report—Chronic care management.
41.05.740 - School employees' benefits board.
41.05.742 - Single enrollment requirement.
41.05.744 - School employee eligibility during COVID-19 state of emergency.
41.05.745 - School employees' benefits board—Employee-paid, voluntary benefits—Optional benefits.
41.05.750 - Problem and pathological gambling treatment program.
41.05.751 - Problem gambling account.
41.05.760 - Recovery residences—Registry.
41.05.761 - Recovery residences—Technical assistance for residences seeking certification.
41.05.762 - Recovery residences—Revolving fund.
41.05.765 - Insulin drugs—Cap on enrollee's required payment amount—Cost-sharing requirements.
41.05.830 - Coverage for hearing instruments—Definitions.