Okla. Stat. tit. 74, § 74-1303

For the purposes of and as used in the Oklahoma Employees

Insurance and Benefits Act:

1. "Board" means the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits

Board as created by the Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits

Act;

2. "Plan" means the Oklahoma Employees Insurance Plan;

3. "Employee" means those state employees, education employees

and other eligible employees participating in the Oklahoma Employees

Insurance and Benefits Act;

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4. "Education employee" means those employees other than

adjunct professors employed by a state institution of higher

education, in the service of an education entity who are members or

are or will be eligible to become members of the Teachers’

Retirement System of Oklahoma and who receive compensation for such

service after the education entity begins to participate in the

Oklahoma Employees Insurance and Benefits Act and visiting faculty

who are not eligible for membership in the Teachers’ Retirement

System of Oklahoma;

5. "Adjunct professor" means a person employed by an

institution of higher education who is attached in a subordinate or

temporary capacity to the faculty or staff, and who is contracted to

instruct in a given specific discipline;

6. "Visiting faculty" means a person employed by an institution

of higher education who is not eligible for academic rank or tenure,

other than an adjunct professor, and who is contracted to instruct

in a given specific discipline generally not to exceed one (1)

academic year;

7. "Education entity" means a school district, a technology

center school district, or an institution comprising The Oklahoma

State System of Higher Education;

8. "State employee" means and includes each officer or employee

in the service of the State of Oklahoma who, after January 1, 1966,

received compensation for service rendered to the State of Oklahoma

on a warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a department

or by an elected or duly appointed officer of the state or who

receives payment for the performance of personal services on a

warrant issued pursuant to a payroll certified by a department and

drawn by the State Treasurer against appropriations made by the

Legislature from any state fund or against trust funds held by the

State Treasurer, who is employed in a position normally requiring

actual performance of duty during not less than one thousand (1,000)

hours per year, and whose employment is not seasonal or temporary,

except that a person elected by popular vote will be considered an

employee during the person’s tenure in office; provided, however,

that employees who are otherwise eligible who are on approved leave

without pay shall be eligible to continue coverage during such leave

not to exceed twenty-four (24) months, as provided and published in

the Office of Management and Enterprise Services Rules for

Employment, from the date the employee goes on such leave provided

the employee pays the full premiums due or persons who are drawing

disability benefits under the State Employees Disability Program Act

or meet each and every requirement of the State Employees Disability

Program shall be eligible to continue coverage provided the person

pays the full premiums due;

9. "Carrier" means the State of Oklahoma or a state designated

Health Maintenance Organization (HMO). Such HMO shall be a

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federally qualified Health Maintenance Organization under 42 U.S.C.,

Section 300e et seq.;

10. "Health insurance plan" means a self-insured plan by the

State of Oklahoma for the purpose of paying the cost of hospital and

medical care up to the maximum coverage provided by said plan or

prepaid medical plan(s) offered to employees as an alternative to

the state-administered plan by federally qualified HMOs which have

contracted with the state;

11. "Life insurance plan" means a self-insured plan for the
e plan" means a self-insured plan by the

State of Oklahoma for the purpose of paying the cost of hospital and

medical care up to the maximum coverage provided by said plan or

prepaid medical plan(s) offered to employees as an alternative to

the state-administered plan by federally qualified HMOs which have

contracted with the state;

11. "Life insurance plan" means a self-insured plan for the

purpose of paying death and dismemberment benefits up to the maximum

coverage provided by the plan;

12. "Dental benefits plan" means a plan by the State of

Oklahoma for the purpose of paying the cost of dental care up to the

maximum coverage provided by the plan; whenever the term "dental

insurance plan" or a term of like import appears in the Oklahoma

Employees Insurance and Benefits Act, the term shall mean "dental

benefits plan";

13. "Other insurance" means any type of coverage other than

basic hospital and medical benefits, major medical benefits,

comprehensive benefits, life insurance benefits or dental insurance

benefits, which the Plan may be directed to offer;

14. "Dependent" means an employee’s spouse or any unmarried

child:

a. under the age of twenty-five (25) years, regardless of

residence, provided that the employee is primarily

responsible for their support, including:

(1) an adopted child, and

(2) a stepchild or child who lives with the employee

in a regular parent-child relationship, or

b. regardless of age who is incapable of self-support

because of mental or physical incapacity that existed

prior to reaching the age of twenty-five (25) years;

15. "Comprehensive benefits" means benefits which reimburse the

expense of hospital room and board, other hospital services, certain

outpatient expenses, maternity benefits, surgical expense, including

obstetrical care, in-hospital medical care expense, diagnostic

radiological and laboratory benefits, physicians’ services provided

by house and office calls, treatments administered in physicians’

office, prescription drugs, psychiatric services, Christian Science

practitioners’ services, Christian Science nurses’ services,

optometric medical services for injury or illness of the eye, home

health care, home nursing service, hospice care, and such other

benefits as may be determined by the Board. Such benefits shall be

provided on a copayment or coinsurance basis, the insured to pay a

proportion of the cost of such benefits, and may be subject to a

deductible that applies to all or part of the benefits as determined

by the Board; and

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16. "Life insurance coverage" shall include a maximum amount of

basic life insurance or benefit with or without a double indemnity

provision and an amount of accidental death and dismemberment

insurance or benefit per employee to be provided by the State of

Oklahoma, and the employee shall have the option to purchase

additional life insurance or benefits on the employee’s life up to

the amount provided by the plan. Such basic life insurance

benefits, with or without double indemnity, and accidental death and

dismemberment benefits shall not exclude coverage for death or

dismemberment resulting from war, insurrection or riot. The Board

may also extend dependent life insurance in an amount to be

determined by the Board to each insured employee who elects to

insure the employee’s eligible dependents. Premiums for the

dependent life insurance shall be paid wholly by the employee.