File #: 2014-0428    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 11/10/2014 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 12/8/2014
Enactment date: 12/17/2014 Enactment #: 17948
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to employee medical benefits; providing that employees who meet the definition of full-time employee under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended, are added as a class to the list of those county employees who are eligible to receive medical benefits; and amending Ordinance 12014, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.12.040.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Employee Benefits
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 17948.pdf, 2. 2014-0428 legislative review form.pdf, 3. 2014-0428 Affordable Care Act -- Fiscal Note.xls, 4. 2014-0428 transmittal letter.doc, 5. Staff Report Proposed Ordinance 2014-0428 Employee Medical Benefits.docx, 6. Attachment 1 Amendment 1.docx, 7. Attachment 2 Title Amendment T1.docx, 8. Revised Staff Report Proposed Ordinance 2014-0428 Employee Medical Benefits.docx
Staff: Wagner, Nick
Drafter
Clerk 12/03/2014
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AN ORDINANCE relating to employee medical benefits; providing that employees who meet the definition of full-time employee under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended, are added as a class to the list of those county employees who are eligible to receive medical benefits; and amending Ordinance 12014, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.12.040.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. In 2010, the United States Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("the ACA"). The ACA requires that, effective January 1, 2015, certain large employers, including King County, offer adequate and affordable benefits to full time employees as defined by the ACA ("ACA full-time employees").
B. An employer that declines to offer adequate and affordable benefits to ACA full-time employees is liable for payment of a penalty under the ACA.
C. Certain King County employees who meet the definition of ACA full-time employees do not currently receive medical benefits. This ordinance would allow King County to offer medical benefits, effective January 1, 2015, to ACA full-time employees.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 12014, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 3.12.040 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Full-time regular, part-time regular, provisional, probationary and term-limited temporary employees shall receive the leave benefits provided in this chapter.
B. Full-time regular, part-time regular, provisional, probationary, (( and)) term-limited temporary employees and those employees who meet the definition of full time employee under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended, and including applicable regulations promulgated under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, as amended, and their spouse or domestic partner, each of their dependent children((,)) and each of the dependent children of ...

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