WHEREAS, The HCTC enhancements also have been critical to | 19 |
thousands of retirees, including approximately twelve thousand | 20 |
Delphi retirees in Dayton and Warren, Ohio, as well as retired | 21 |
Delta pilots, who lost their health care along with their | 22 |
retirement security when the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation | 23 |
assumed responsibility for their hard-earned pensions; and | 24 |
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 129th General Assembly | 29 |
of the State of Ohio, hereby request that the United States | 30 |
Congress reauthorize and continue the Health Coverage Tax Credit | 31 |
at eighty per cent until July 1, 2012; reauthorize and continue | 32 |
the monthly reimbursement program until July 1, 2012; incorporate | 33 |
the qualified family members program as a permanent part of the | 34 |
HCTC program and remove the maximum twenty-four-month time limit | 35 |
for pre-Medicare qualified family members to be eligible for the | 36 |
program; and permanently consider VEBAs that were created during | 37 |
the authorized time frame to be HCTC-qualified VEBAs for the | 38 |
duration of the existence of the VEBA; and be it further | 39 |
RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the Senate transmit duly | 40 |
authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of the | 41 |
United States, to the Speaker and the Clerk of the United States | 42 |
House of Representatives, to the President Pro Tempore and the | 43 |
Secretary of the United States Senate, to the members of the Ohio | 44 |
Congressional delegation, and to the news media of Ohio. | 45 |