--- title: Title 45, Chapter 18. Employees’ Insurance and Benefits Plans collection: code id: code:chapter:45-18 canonical_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/title/45/chapter/18 md_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18.md date: 2025 status: active corpus_version: 2025-supplement-89aa39ab3c68 license: CC0-1.0 publisher: Georgia Commons, an independent project of Georgia Civic Data. Not the State of Georgia. Not legal advice. up: https://georgiacommons.org/code/45.md previous: https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-17.md next: https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-19.md index: https://georgiacommons.org/code/index.md heading: EMPLOYEES’ INSURANCE AND BENEFITS PLANS title_heading: PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES section_count: 66 full_url: https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18.md?full=1 --- # Title 45, Chapter 18. Employees’ Insurance and Benefits Plans Title 45. Public Officers and Employees 66 sections. Each line is `citation, catchline, status, URL`; the text of every section, in order, is at https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18.md?full=1 (capped, with a pointer to continue). - 45-18-1, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-1.md - 45-18-2, Authority to establish health insurance plan; rules and regulations; plan generally; coverage for retiring or retired employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-2.md - 45-18-3, Design of plan, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-3.md - 45-18-3.1, Required inclusion of high deductible health plans, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-3.1.md - 45-18-4, Expenses not to be covered by plan, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-4.md - 45-18-4.1, Required coverage for breast cancer screening for individuals with high risk, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-4.1.md - 45-18-4.2, Required coverage for PANDAS or PANS health services, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-4.2.md - 45-18-5, County officers and employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-5.md - 45-18-5.1, Licensed blind or otherwise seriously disabled vendors, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-5.1.md - 45-18-5.2, Sheltered employment center employees, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-5.2.md - 45-18-6, Contracts to provide insurance benefits; invitation of proposals; reinsurance agreements; issuance of certificates of coverage; redetermination of contracts; self-insurance plans; contracts for administrative services; contracts with health maintenance organizations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-6.md - 45-18-6.1, Reimbursement rates offered under state employees’ health insurance plan, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-6.1.md - 45-18-7, Retiring employees, spouses, and dependents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.md - 45-18-7.1, Employees of the Georgia Development Authority, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.1.md - 45-18-7.2, Agrirama Development Authority employees, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.2.md - 45-18-7.3, Employees of Peace Officers’ Annuity and Benefit Fund, Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund, and Sheriffs’ Retirement Fund of Georgia, spouses, and dependent children, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.3.md - 45-18-7.4, Employees of Hazardous Waste Management Authority, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.4.md - 45-18-7.5, Employees of Georgia Housing and Finance Authority, spouses, and dependent children, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.5.md - 45-18-7.6, Employees of Georgia-Federal State Inspection Service, spouses, and dependent children, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.6.md - 45-18-7.7, Employees and dependents of critical access hospitals in health plans, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.7.md - 45-18-7.8, Employees of the Georgia Student Finance Authority, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-7.8.md - 45-18-8, Right of employees to secure coverage for spouse and dependents; regulations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-8.md - 45-18-9, Continuation of coverage for spouse or dependents of deceased employees; resumption of coverage; payment of contributions; regulating continuance, discontinuance, and resumption of coverage, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-9.md - 45-18-10, Right of continuation of coverage for former employees; payment of premiums; establishment of terms and conditions by board; appointment as United States attorney, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-10.md - 45-18-11, Procedure for presentation of claims and payment of benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-11.md - 45-18-12, Creation of health insurance fund; amounts credited to fund; special reserve; administrator and custodian of fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-12.md - 45-18-13, Deposit of amounts from health insurance fund available for investment in trust account; investment of funds; withdrawal of funds from trust account, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-13.md - 45-18-14, Deductions from compensation and benefit payments of share of cost of coverage under plan of employees; payment of contributions to health insurance fund by departments, boards, and agencies of state; coverage of employee appealing discharge, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-14.md - 45-18-15, Rules and regulations for administration of part; board to recommend to General Assembly schedule of maximum fees for hospitals and practitioners, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-15.md - 45-18-16, Certification of employer payment percentage for ensuing fiscal year; provision in budgets for funds for employer payments, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-16.md - 45-18-17, Employees to become members of plan unless coverage rejected or waived; withdrawal from plan by persons covered by Social Security medical care, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-17.md - 45-18-18, Discharge of certain debts or obligations due health insurance fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-18.md - 45-18-19, Confidentiality of claim forms and records, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-19.md - 45-18-20, Fiscal note required for bills impacting employees’ health insurance plans, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-20.md - 45-18-21, Deposit of employer and retiree contributions into the Georgia Retiree Health Benefit Fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-21.md - 45-18-22, Requirements for insurers relating to pharmacy reimbursements; enforcement, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-22.md - 45-18-24, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-24.md - 45-18-25, Creation of Georgia State Employees Post-employment Health Benefit Fund; identification and transfer of funds from Georgia Retiree Health Benefit Fund; how funds used, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-25.md - 45-18-25.1, Responsibilities and procedures for fund operation; rules and regulations; employment of personnel and professionals; maintenance of records; collection of moneys; report, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-25.1.md - 45-18-26, Technical advice; annual actuarial valuations, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-26.md - 45-18-27, Control of fund by commissioner; obligations to be paid from fund; investment powers; prohibition against personal interest, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-27.md - 45-18-28, Minimum annual required contributions; employer responsibilities, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-28.md - 45-18-30, ‘‘Employee’’ defined, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-30.md - 45-18-31, Deferred compensation plans authorized for state, municipalities, counties, or other political subdivisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-31.md - 45-18-32, Administration of plans; participation by employees of county boards of health, school systems, Lake Allatoona Preservation Authority, the Georgia Federal-State Shipping Point Inspection Service, and the Georgia Firefighters’ Pension Fund; provision in plans for income tax deferral benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-32.md - 45-18-33, Payments from deferred compensation funds for purchase of insurance, endowments, annuities, mutual funds, or savings from funds derived from deferral; custodian of assets of the fund, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-33.md - 45-18-34, Plans not to reduce pensions or other benefits, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-34.md - 45-18-35, Plans to operate without cost to state, counties, cities, or other political subdivisions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-35.md - 45-18-36, Salary deductions; records of individual account information, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-36.md - 45-18-37, Special pay plan for deferred payment of special compensation to reduce federal tax burden, repealed (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-37.md - 45-18-38, Board of Trustees of the Employees’ Retirement System to be the successor to the State Personnel Board and Employee Benefit Council for administration of deferred compensation plans; employment of and contracting with agents, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-38.md - 45-18-50, Definitions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-50.md - 45-18-51, Creation and operation of council, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-51.md - 45-18-52, Establishment of flexible employee benefit plans, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-52.md - 45-18-53, Authorization for payroll deductions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-53.md - 45-18-54, Continuation of optional plans; approval of optional plans or contracting with new or additional insurers, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-54.md - 45-18-55, Commissioner of administrative services as executive officer and custodian, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-55.md - 45-18-56, Execution of contracts by commissioner; bidding procedure, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-56.md - 45-18-57, Contributions from state departments, boards, and agencies, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-57.md - 45-18-58, Liability for errors or omissions, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-58.md - 45-18-70, Establishment and operation, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-70.md - 45-18-71, Rules and regulations for personnel administration, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-71.md - 45-18-72, Start-up costs, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-72.md - 45-18-80, Certain employees retired prior to July 1, 1962, exempt from personal liability for services at state hospitals; cooperation in application and claims process, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-80.md - 45-18-81, Legislative intent, active, https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-81.md - 45-18-100, , repealed through 45-18-105 (no version in force today), https://georgiacommons.org/code/45-18-100.md