This bill modifies provisions related to public employee benefits.
This bill:
- modifies the definition of gainful employment for purposes of the Public Employees' Long-Term Disability Act;
- includes pay for time that exceeds an eligible employee's regular schedule in the calculation of the eligible employee's regular monthly salary;
- establishes a death benefit for employees receiving long-term disability benefits;
- makes life assistance counseling that the Utah State Retirement Office offers available to employees receiving long-term disability benefits;
- increases the state-paid basic life insurance benefit for exempt state employees;
- creates additional state-paid basic life insurance benefit tiers for exempt state employees; and
- directs savings from a reduction in long-term disability premium rates be used to pay for the cost of the changes in this bill.
Recommended by: Retirement and Independent Entities Interim Committee

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 49-11-609, 49-21-102, 49-21-401
Substitute #1: 49-11-609, 49-21-102, 49-21-401