BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal received legislative approval Friday to outsource a state employee health insurance plan, after a recent shake-up on the House budget committee that ousted two critics of the idea before the latest vote.

Under the contract with the Office of Group Benefits, Blue Cross/Blue Shield will manage a health plan that covers 62,000 state and public school employees, retirees and their dependents. The contract will begin Jan. 1.