Board and Employee Premium Contributions. Connecticut State Partnership Plan 2.0 (SPP)
i) If the SPP in its current form is no longer available; or if the benefit plan design of the SPP is modified as a result of a change in the State’s collective bargaining agreement with SEBAC, if such modifications would increase beyond anticipated trend the cost of the medical benefits plan or alter the plan coverage offered herein. Reopener negotiations shall be limited to medical benefits plan design and funding, premium cost share and/or introduction of an additional optional medical benefits plan; and/or:
ii) If Conn. Gen. Stat. Section 3-123rrr et seq. is amended, or if there are any changes to the administration of the SPP, or if additional fees and/or charges for the SPP are imposed so as to affect the Board, any of which amendments, changes, fees or charges (individually or collectively) would substantially increase the cost of the medical benefits plan offered herein. Reopener negotiations shall be limited to medical benefits plan design and funding, premium cost share and/or introduction of an additional optional medical benefits plan; and/or
iii) If the cost of medical benefits plan offered herein is expected to result in the triggering of an excise tax under The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ([ACA; P.L. 111-148], as amended, inter alia, by the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016 [P.L. 114-113]) and/or if there is any material amendment to the ACA that would substantially increase the cost of the medical benefits plan offered herein. Reopener negotiations shall be limited to medical benefits plan design and funding, premium cost share and/or introduction of an additional optional medical benefits plan. In any negotiations triggered under the conditions above as well as negotiations for a successor to the current collective bargaining agreement, the parties shall consider the plan options in place as of June 30, 2019 (as well as the premium cost-sharing amounts as set forth above, as may be subsequently negotiated between the parties) to be the baseline for such negotiations, and the parties shall consider the following additional factors: • Trends in medical insurance plan design outside of the SPP; • The costs of different plan designs, including a high deductible health plan structure and a PPO plan structure. Should such negotiations be submitted to arbitration for resolution, the arbitration panel shall consider the foregoing in applying the statutory criteria in making its ruli...
