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Administrative History

The 1956 State Legislature authorized the first comprehensive State employees' health insurance plan and created a Temporary Health Insurance Board in the Department of Civil Service (D.C.S.) to establish regulations for health insurance contracts, administration of the plan, employee eligibility, and the voluntary participation of local governments.

The Civil Service Commission's President was authorized, with the Board's approval, to draw up the actual plan, contract with insurance providers, and establish an administrative structure.

The eight-member Board was appointed for two years as follows: four by the Governor, two by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and two by the Speaker of the Assembly. In 1958 Board members' terms were extended for another two years. Completing its work in 1960, the Board was terminated and its powers transferred to the Commission's President (L. 1960, Ch. 329). The former members of the Board, however, continued to meet for an additional year as a Health Insurance Advisory Committee.