Bill Text: NY A02328 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Allows retired and current school board members who have served for ten years to receive state health insurance benefits pursuant to section 163 of the civil service law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-15 - held for consideration in governmental employees [A02328 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02328-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2328
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Governmental Employees
       AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  authorizing  past
         or  retired  school  board  members to purchase state health insurance
         after ten years
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  2 and 4 of section 163 of the civil service
    2  law, subdivision 2 as amended by section 4 of part T of  chapter  56  of
    3  the laws of 2010 and subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 329 of the laws
    4  of 1960, are amended to read as follows:
    5    2.  The  contract  or  contracts shall provide for health benefits for
    6  retired employees of the state and of the state colleges of agriculture,
    7  home economics, industrial labor relations and veterinary medicine,  the
    8  state  agricultural experiment station at Geneva, and any other institu-
    9  tion or agency under the management and control of Cornell university as
   10  the representative of the board of trustees of the state  university  of
   11  New  York,  and  the  state college of ceramics under the management and
   12  control of Alfred university as the representative of the board of trus-
   13  tees of the state university of New York, and their spouses and  depend-
   14  ent  children  as  defined  by the regulations of the president, on such
   15  terms as the president may  deem  appropriate,  and  the  president  may
   16  authorize the inclusion in the plan of the employees and retired employ-
   17  ees   of   public   authorities,  public  benefit  corporations,  school
   18  districts, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE SERVED FOR TEN  YEARS,  special
   19  districts,   district  corporations,  municipal  corporations  excluding
   20  active employees and retired employees of cities having a population  of
   21  one  million  or  more  inhabitants  whose compensation is or was before
   22  retirement paid out of the city treasury, or other appropriate agencies,
   23  subdivisions or  quasi-public  organizations  of  the  state,  including
   24  active members of volunteer fire and volunteer ambulance companies serv-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02432-01-1
       A. 2328                             2
    1  ing  one or more municipal corporations pursuant to subdivision seven of
    2  section ninety-two-a of the general municipal law, and their spouses and
    3  dependent children as defined by the regulations of the  president.  Any
    4  such  corporation, district, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER, agency or organization
    5  electing to participate in the plan shall be required to pay its OR  HIS
    6  OR HER proportionate share of the expenses of administration of the plan
    7  in  such amounts and at such times as determined and fixed by the presi-
    8  dent. All amounts payable for such expenses of administration  shall  be
    9  paid to the commissioner of taxation and finance and shall be applied to
   10  the  reimbursement  of  funds  previously  advanced  for  such purposes.
   11  Neither the state nor any other participant in the plan shall be charged
   12  with the particular experience attributable  to  the  employees  of  the
   13  participant,  and  all  dividends  or  retroactive rate credits shall be
   14  distributed pro-rata based upon the number of employees of such  partic-
   15  ipant covered by the plan.
   16    4.  Any public authority, public benefit corporation, school district,
   17  SCHOOL BOARD, special district, district corporation,  municipal  corpo-
   18  ration, or other agency, subdivision or quasi-public organization of the
   19  state,  whose  employees  and  retired  employees  are  authorized to be
   20  included in the plan as provided by subdivision two OF THIS SECTION, may
   21  elect to participate in such plan.  Any such election shall be exercised
   22  by the adoption of a resolution by its governing body and, in  the  case
   23  of any municipal corporation where a resolution of its governing body is
   24  required by law to be approved by any other body or officer, such resol-
   25  ution  shall  also  be  approved by such other body or officer. Any such
   26  election may be made with respect to inclusion in the plan of  both  its
   27  employees  and  its  retired  employees at the same time, or may be made
   28  only with respect to its  employees  alone  and  at  another  time  with
   29  respect  to  its  retired  employees.  Any  such authority, corporation,
   30  district,  BOARD,  agency,  subdivision  or  organization  making   such
   31  election  shall become a participating employer under such plan, subject
   32  to and in accordance with the  regulations  of  the  president  relating
   33  thereto.
   34    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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