Montana Code Annotated 2001

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     19-1-402. Contents of federal-state agreement. The agreement authorized by 19-1-401 may contain provisions relating to coverage, benefits, contributions, effective date, modification and termination of the agreement, administration, and other appropriate provisions as the state agency and secretary of health and human services shall agree upon, but, except as may be otherwise required or permitted by or under the Social Security Act as to the services to be covered, the agreement must provide in effect that:
     (1) benefits will be provided for employees whose services are covered by the agreement (and their dependents and survivors) on the same basis as though the services constituted employment within the meaning of Title II of the Social Security Act;
     (2) the state will pay to the secretary of the treasury of the United States, at a time or times as may be prescribed under the Social Security Act, contributions with respect to wages equal to the sum of the taxes that would be imposed by the Federal Insurance Contributions Act if the services covered by the agreement constituted employment within the meaning of that act;
     (3) the agreement must be effective with respect to services in employment covered by the agreement performed after a date specified in the agreement, but may not be effective with respect to services performed prior to the first day of the calendar year in which the agreement is entered into or in which the modification of the agreement making it applicable to services is entered into, except that the effective date may be made retroactive to the extent permitted by section 218(e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 418(e));
     (4) all services that constitute employment and are performed in the employ of the state by employees of the state must be covered by the agreement; and
     (5) all services that constitute employment, are performed in the employ of a political subdivision of the state, and are covered by a plan that is in conformity with the terms of the agreement and that has been approved by the state agency under part 5 must be covered by the agreement.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 44, L. 1953; amd. and redes. as Sec. 4, Ch. 44, L. 1953 by Sec. 4, Ch. 270, L. 1955; amd. Sec. 1, Ch. 97, L. 1959; R.C.M. 1947, 59-1103(part); amd. Sec. 35, Ch. 10, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 102, Ch. 42, L. 1997.

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