Bill Text: NY S01714 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases local government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S01714 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01714-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1714 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions 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