AB 27

Subject to a number of limitations, current law requires a city, village, or town

(municipality) that pays the health insurance premiums for its employees who are

fire fighters to pay such premiums for the surviving spouse and dependent children

of a fire fighter who dies, or has died, in the line of duty.

This general current law requirement does not apply to a surviving spouse who

remarries or reaches the age of 65, or to a dependent child who reaches the age of 18

and is not a full-time high school student. Current law does require premium

payments to be made for a dependent child who is a full-time or part-time student

in an accredited college or university until the close of the calendar year in which the

individual reaches the age of 27.

This bill extends the current law requirement for continued health insurance

premium payments to the surviving spouse and dependent children of a municipal

or county law enforcement officer who dies, or has died, in the line of duty, subject

to the same limitations that apply under current law.

The bill first applies, retroactively, to a law enforcement officer who has died in

the line of duty before the effective date of the bill.