RSA 21-I:102 Contracting and Administrative Authority.

I. The commissioner may solicit information about, seek proposals for, negotiate, enter into, and administer group insurance contracts with duly authorized accident and life insurance carriers as necessary and appropriate to provide to qualifying state employees, at state expense and at no cost to such employees, an FMLI plan of wage replacement as described in this subdivision. The provision of this coverage shall be considered a matter of legislatively established public policy that is designed to benefit all employers and employees in the state and that is "confined exclusively to the public employer by statute" as provided in RSA 273-A:1, XI and shall not be subject to collective bargaining. Nothing in this subdivision shall be construed to invalidate any portion of a collective