Virginia Code 51.1-1135.2: Board authorized to provide long-term care insurance and benefits
A. For purposes of this section, “participating employee” means the same as that term is defined in § 51.1-1100.
Terms Used In Virginia Code 51.1-1135.2
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Disability: means a partial disability or total disability. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
- Includes: means includes, but not limited to. See Virginia Code 1-218
- Participating employee: means any eligible employee required or electing to participate in the program. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
- Person: includes any individual, corporation, partnership, association, cooperative, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, government, political subdivision, or any other legal or commercial entity and any successor, representative, agent, agency, or instrumentality thereof. See Virginia Code 1-230
- Program: means the program providing sick leave, family and personal leave, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits for participating employees established pursuant to this chapter. See Virginia Code 51.1-1100
- State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands. See Virginia Code 1-245
B. The Board is authorized to develop, implement, and administer a long-term care insurance program for participating employees that includes, among other elements, provisions under which a person may purchase continuing coverage if he ceases to be a participating employee. The Board may contract for and purchase such long-term care insurance or may self-insure long-term care benefits or may use such other actuarially sound funding necessary to effectuate such long-term care insurance and benefits.
C. The costs of providing long-term care benefits for participating employees shall be paid by state agencies from funds as shall be appropriated by law to state agencies. State agencies shall pay to the Board from such funds contribution amounts, to be determined by the Board, to provide the Board with such funds as shall be required from time to time to (i) obtain and maintain long-term care insurance and benefits for participating employees, and (ii) administer the long-term care insurance program, including providing case management and cost containment programs. Contributions shall be deposited in the Disability Insurance Trust Fund established under § 51.1-1140.