SB-0394, As Passed Senate, June 14, 2007

SUBSTITUTE FOR

SENATE BILL NO. 394

     A bill to amend 2004 PA 46, entitled

"Public safety officers benefit act,"

(MCL 28.631 to 28.638) by amending the title and by adding section

4a.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

TITLE

     An act to provide compensation and other benefits to

dependents of public safety officers who are killed or who are

permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty; to create the

public safety officers benefit fund; to prescribe the duties and

responsibilities of certain state officers; and to make an

appropriation.

     Sec. 4a. (1) For every law enforcement officer who has died or

Senate Bill No. 394 as amended June 14, 2007

dies in the line of duty, the state shall provide the surviving

spouse and his or her dependents health insurance comparable to the

insurance coverage the law enforcement officer was receiving at the

time of his or her death. Coverage provided under this section

shall cease for the spouse should the spouse qualify for comparable

health insurance from another provider and for a dependent upon 1

of the following, whichever is later:

     (a) His or her eighteenth birthday.

     (b) If the dependent is enrolled as a full-time student at an

accredited university or college, his or her twenty-fifth birthday.

     (2) This section shall apply only to a law enforcement officer

who died in the line of duty <<BETWEEN OCTOBER 1, 2003 AND AUGUST 1,

2007, AND WHOSE SURVIVING SPOUSE AND DEPENDENT HEALTH INSURANCE

COVERAGE WAS NOT CONTINUED BY THE PUBLIC AGENCY HE OR SHE SERVED.>>