Opinion No. (1988)

Dear Senator Staples and Representative Harpool:

Each of you has posed questions relating to group health insurance contracts for employees of Missouri school districts. Because of the similarities in the questions posed, we have combined your requests into one opinion. The questions posed by Senator Staples are as follows:

Is it permissible for a school district which provides group health insurance for its employees to offer to former employees who have retired and surviving spouses and children of former employees coverage under the district's group policy for premiums equal to: 1) an…