The Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Board of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall make the pretax health savings account authorized by the provisions of the Health Savings Account Act established in Section 6060.14 of Title 36 of the Oklahoma Statutes available by offering a high deductible health plan to all persons who are eligible employees for purposes of any health care insurance offered through or under the supervision of the Office. The high deductible health plan shall be offered no later than January 1, 2009. Any employee who elects to participate in a high deductible health plan offered through the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may establish a health savings account (HSA) as defined in Section 223 of the Internal Revenue Code. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall form a working group to study the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Plan structure, including, but not limited to, future recommendations for the state employee flexible benefits allowance and the potential of funding on employee health savings accounts. and Benefits Plan structure, including, but not limited to, future recommendations for the state employee flexible benefits allowance and the potential of funding on employee health savings accounts. The Director shall provide a report of the working group study and recommendations to the Legislature and Governor no later than December 31, 2012. Added by Laws 2007, c. 269, § 7, emerg. eff. June 4, 2007. Amended by Laws 2011, c. 69, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2011; Laws 2012, c. 303, § 19, eff. Nov. 1, 2012.
Oklahoma Legal Code