Bill Text: NY A10239 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases local government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-26 - referred to governmental employees [A10239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10239-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10239
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 26, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Employees
        AN  ACT  to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing local
          government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  civil service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  163-b to read as follows:
     3    § 163-b. Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan. The president, as defined
     4  in subdivision two of section two of  this  chapter,  is  authorized  to
     5  promulgate rules and regulations permitting eligible agencies to partic-
     6  ipate  in  the  Empire  Plan  Prescription  Drug Plan without becoming a
     7  participating agency under the New York State Health Insurance Plan.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01849-01-7