CHAPTER 407

An Act to amend and reenact § 51-111.67:8 of the Code of Virginia,
relating to continuance of group insurance by certain members of the
Virginia Supplemental Retirement System.

[H 215]

Approved March 81, 1964

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 51-111.67:38 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted
as follows:

§ 51-111.67:3. (a) Any department, division, institution or agency
of the Commonwealth and any county, city or town, and any political
entity, subdivision, branch or unit of the Commonwealth and any commis-
sion or public authority or body corporate created by or under an act of
the General Assembly, which has group life insurance with any insurance
company or nonprofit association may continue such group life insurance,
but shall not, while such group life insurance is in effect, participate in
the group insurance otherwise provided for in this article; ‘provided, how-
ever, that upon discontinuance of such other group life insurance and
within the two year period next succeeding the effective date of the first
group insurance authorized by this article, any such department, division,
institution or agency of the Commonwealth and any county, city or town,
and any political entity, subdivision, branch or unit of the Commonwealth
and any commission or public authority or body corporate created by or
under an act of the General Assembly, may elect to participate in the
group insurance authorized under this article, in which event the em-
ployees thereof shall thereafter become eligible to participate in such
group insurance; on and after the expiration of the two year period next
succeeding the effective date of the first group insurance authorized by
this article and upon discontinuance of such other group life insurance,
the election of any such department, division, institution or agency of the
Commonwealth and any county, city or town, and any political entity, sub-
division, branch or unit of the Commonwealth and any commission or
public authority or body corporate created by or under an act of the
General Assembly to participate in the group insurance authorized by this
article shall be subject to the approval of the Board, and the employees
thereof shall become eligible to participate in such group insurance on
and after the date of such approval by. the Board.

(b) Notwithstanding any provisions of paragraph (a) of this section

to the contrary, if the teachers, as defined in subparagraph (1) of § 51-
1 el 67:2, employed by any school board are eligible to participate man
employer sponsored group life insurance program with any insurance
company or nonprofit organization and no part of the premium therefor
is paid from State funds directly or indirectly, then, upon request of
such school board, such teachers may be insured effective September one,
nineteen hundred sixty-four, under the group insurance authorized by
this article. Such eligible teachers in service with such a school board as
of June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-four, shall be automatically insured
effective September one, nineteen hundred sixty-four, provided that any
such teacher desiring not to be so insured shall, prior to October one,
nineteen hundred sixty-four, on an appropriate form to be prescribed by
the Board, give written notice to his employing office that he desires not
to be insured. The provisions of § 51-111.67:6, shall apply to all such
eligible teachers entering service with such a school board subsequent to
June thirty, nineteen hundred sixty-four.