§ 6-17-1111 - Life and disability insurance -- Employee eligibility -- Allocation of costs. - Arkansas Statutes

6-17-1111. Life and disability insurance -- Employee eligibility -- Allocation of costs.

Eligible employees shall include:

(1) All certified employees in public schools who are normally expected to work nine hundred (900) hours or more per year, whose salaries are paid from the school district's teacher salary fund, and all other employees of public schools who are normally expected to work nine hundred (900) hours or more per year and whose salaries are paid from the school district's local or state revenue;

(2) (A) All other employees of the school district whose salaries are not paid from the school district's local or state revenues, provided these employees are certified or they are normally expected to work nine hundred (900) hours or more per year.

(B) The employing school district is required to pay the same amount per month for these employees as the General Assembly appropriates for employees in subdivision (1) of this section.

(C) The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board may establish the manner in which this payment is to be made if the manner of payment is not in violation of any other law, rule, or regulation governing the school district.

(3) In the event that an employee shall draw part of his or her salary from the school district's local or state revenue and part of his or her salary from another fund administered by the school district, the employer's share of the cost of his or her insurance shall be prorated between the provisions of subdivisions (1) and (2) of this section.