2021 Georgia Code
Title 33 - Insurance
Chapter 24 - Insurance Generally
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 33-24-34. Authorization of Group Insurance for Government Employees; Deduction of Premiums From Wages or Salaries

Each and every county, county board of education, city, town, governmental unit, department, board, or bureau of this state or of the cities and towns of this state is authorized to make deductions periodically from the wages or salaries of its employees with which to pay the premium for life, accident and sickness, hospitalization, or annuity insurance, or any other kind of insurance, for the benefit of such employees upon a group insurance plan and to that end to enter into agreements with insurance companies whereby the kind of group insurance desired by the employees may be furnished to them and the premiums for the group insurance remitted periodically by the counties, boards, cities, towns, units, departments, or bureaus.

(Code 1933, § 56-2431, enacted by Ga. L. 1960, p. 289, § 1; Ga. L. 2019, p. 386, § 47/SB 133.)

The 2019 amendment, effective July 1, 2019, substituted "county board of education" for "county board of public instruction" near the beginning, and substituted "towns, units, departments, or bureaus" for "towns, bureaus, or departments" at the end.

- For article discussing the development of group marketing of insurance, with emphasis on recent attempts in the area of property and liability insurance, see 20 J. of Pub. L. 479 (1971).

No state agency, including State Merit System, may enter into any optional group insurance plan for life insurance and disability coverage for employees of other departments. 1974 Op. Att'y Gen. No. 74-81.

RESEARCH REFERENCES

ALR.

- Insurance: illustrations concerning accumulations, dividends, surplus, etc., 22 A.L.R. 1284; 127 A.L.R. 1464.

Group insurance, 55 A.L.R. 1245; 63 A.L.R. 1034; 85 A.L.R. 1461.

Rights and remedies of insurance company in respect of amounts which employer has deducted, assumed to deduct, or agreed to deduct, as premiums, from salary or wages of employees, 137 A.L.R. 493.

Policy of group insurance as covering death or injury after termination of employment but within period allowed by policy for application for new or continued insurance, or within period of grace provided for payment of premiums, 145 A.L.R. 951.

Construction and application of provisions of group insurance policy for extension of its coverage in some instance beyond termination of employment, 147 A.L.R. 287.

Group insurance: employer as agent of insurer or of employee as regards change of beneficiary, 151 A.L.R. 274.

Time of disability or death with regard to termination of coverage under group policy, 68 A.L.R.2d 150.

Cancellation or modification of master policy as termination of coverage under group policy, 68 A.L.R.2d 249.

Persons eligible to receive proceeds of federal employees' group life insurance, where insured does not designate beneficiary, 10 A.L.R.3d 803.

Group insurance: waiver or estoppel on basis of statements in promotional or explanatory literature issued to insureds, 36 A.L.R.3d 541; 63 A.L.R.5th 427.

Validity and effect of choice-of-law provision in group insurance policy, 53 A.L.R.3d 1095.

Group insurance: construction of provision limiting coverage to active employees or to persons working actively in conduct of business, 58 A.L.R.3d 993.

Effective date of group life insurance as to individual policies of employees, 66 A.L.R.3d 1175.

Medical care insurance: right of insured under individual policy to coverage afforded by group policy from which he directly transferred on termination of his employment, 66 A.L.R.3d 1192.

Group insurance: construction, application, and effect of policy provision extending conversion privilege to employee after termination of employment, 32 A.L.R.4th 1037.