(1) The secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, upon the recommendation of the secretary, may procure from one (1) or more life insurance companies, authorized to do business in this state, a policy or policies of group life insurance insuring the lives of all or any class or classes of public employees. The policy or policies shall be approved by the commissioner of insurance and may contain such provisions as the commissioner of insurance approves whether or not otherwise permitted by the insurance laws. It is intended that life insurance may be made available for public employees, except that the procuring is permissive.

(2) (a) As used in KRS § 18A.205 to KRS § 18A.215, “public employee” shall mean a person who:
1. Is regularly employed by a public employer; and

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 18A.205

  • Board: means the Personnel Board created by KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Cabinet: means the Personnel Cabinet provided for in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Class: means a group of positions sufficiently similar as to duties performed, scope of discretion and responsibility, minimum requirements of training, experience, or skill, and such other characteristics that the same title, the same tests of fitness, and the same schedule of compensation have been or may be applied to each position in the group. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Classified employee: means an employee appointed to a position in the classified service under this chapter whose appointment and employment are subject to the classified service provisions of this chapter and the administrative regulations promulgated under this chapter. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Eligible: refers to a person who has made a passing score on any examination required under KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Employee: means a person regularly appointed to a position in the state service for which he or she is compensated on a full-time, part-time, or interim basis. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Full-time position: means a position, other than an interim position, requiring an employee to work at least thirty-seven and one-half (37. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • Secretary: means the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet as provided for in KRS
    18A. See Kentucky Statutes 18A.005
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

2. Is also:
a. A contributing member of any one (1) of the state-administered retirement systems;
b. A retiree of a state-administered retirement system who is employed in a regular full-time position for purposes of retirement coverage, but who is not eligible to contribute to one (1) of the systems administered by Kentucky Retirement Systems or County Employees Retirement System pursuant to KRS § 61.637(17) or 78.5540(4);
c. An individual participating in an optional retirement plan authorized by KRS § 161.567; or
d. An individual eligible to participate in a retirement plan established by an employer who ceases participating in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System pursuant to KRS
61.522 whose employees participated in the life insurance plans administered by the Personnel Cabinet prior to the employer’s effective cessation date in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System.
(b) Notwithstanding the definition of “public employee” in this subsection, any federally funded time-limited employee may receive insurance coverage.
(3) As used in this section and KRS § 18A.210, “public employer” shall mean the following employers, if the employer has opted to participate in the state-sponsored group life insurance program:
(a) Any department, office, board, agency, commission, authority, or branch of state government;
(b) A public postsecondary educational institution;
(c) Any department, office, board, agency, commission, authority, or branch of a city, urban-county, charter county, county, unified local government, or consolidated local government; or
(d) Any certified or classified employee or elected member of a local board of education.
(4) As used in KRS § 18A.205 to KRS § 18A.225, “premiums” shall mean premiums to be paid on any type of insurance authorized under KRS § 18A.205 to KRS § 18A.225.
Effective:April 1, 2021
History: Amended 2021 Ky. Acts ch. 102, sec. 39, effective April 1, 2021. — Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 79, sec. 14, effective April 1, 2021. — Amended
2019 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 1, sec. 4, effective July 24, 2019. — Amended 2018 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2018. — Amended
2011 Ky. Acts ch. 52, sec. 1, effective June 8, 2011. — Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 26, effective July 15, 2010. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 154, sec.
44, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1984 Ky. Acts ch. 23, sec. 6, effective July 13, 1984. — Repealed, reenacted, and amended as KRS § 18A.410, 1982 Ky. Acts ch. 448, sec. 41, effective July 15, 1982. — Amended 1976 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 35, sec. 1. — Amended 1976 Ky. Acts ch. 86, sec. 12. — Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 74, Art. II, sec. 9(2). — Amended 1968 Ky. Acts ch.
211, sec. 1. — Created 1962 Ky. Acts ch. 225, sec. 1.
Formerly codified as KRS § 18.410.

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