bargaining unit 9 professional engineers - Dpa - State of California

B. The program shall operate in the following fashion:1. The State shall contribute $1500 per year on behalf of each bargaining unitmember (employee) who lives in a defined rural area, as more definitelydescribed in Government Code Section 22825.01.a. Payments shall be on a monthly basis.b. For permanent employees, as in the “Medical Reimbursement Account”situation, the employee does not have to wait for reimbursement of coveredmedical expenses until the full amount has been deposited.2. As to any employee who enters State service or leaves State service during afiscal year, contributions for such employee shall be made on a pro rata basis. Asimilar computation shall be used for anyone entering or leaving the bargainingunit (e.g., promotion in mid-fiscal year).3. The money shall be available for use as defined in Government Code Section(GC) 22825.01.4. A Rural Healthcare Equity Program will be established with a separate accountfor Bargaining Unit 9 members, as one of several similar accounts.5. Each Unit 9 employee shall be able to utilize up to $1500 per fiscal year,pursuant to GC section 22825.01, but with the exceptions for greater utilizationhereafter noted. The pro rata limitation pursuant to Section 4.12.B.2 is applicablehere.6. If an employee does not utilize the complete $1500 pursuant to the proceduresand limitations described in GC section 22825.01, then the unused monies shallbe put in a “same year pool.” That same year pool shall be utilized to pay thosewho have incurred eligible health care expenses in excess of the $1500, butagain according to the procedures and limitations in GC section 22825.01. Themonies in the same year pool would be distributed at the end, or even soon after,each fiscal year to that group of employees who had expenses in excess of$1500 in the relevant fiscal year. Those monies shall be distributed on a protanto (pro rata) basis.a. Any employee not in Bargaining Unit 9 all year shall receive credit under thisparagraph utilizing the same pro rata formula as in Section 4.12.B.2 above.b. If an employee is entitled to less than twenty five dollars ($25) under Section4.12.B.6, the money shall instead go into next year’s fund pursuant to Section4.12.B.7 hereafter.7. If monies still remain after a distribution to such employees (i.e., all employeeswho spent more than $1500 as provided in GC section 22825.01 werecompletely reimbursed), then those surplus monies shall be rolled over into thenext fiscal year’s funds available for distribution to employees whose expensespursuant to the statute exceed $1500 in such subsequent year. Similar “rollovers”would occur in any years where all employees were completely reimbursed (orhad payments made on their behalf) pursuant to GC section 22825.01 andmonies still remained in the pool.31 BU 903-08