Bill Text: NY S02448 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.265 [S02448 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02448-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2448--A Cal. No. 907 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. FARLEY, AKSHAR, LARKIN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee on Finance -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to providing notice of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees, and their families The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 92-a of the general municipal law, 2 as amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984 and as further amended by 3 section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended and 4 a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows: 5 2. [A] Consistent with the provisions of subdivision two-a of this 6 section, a public corporation may contract with a non-profit membership 7 corporation, organized under article forty-three of the insurance law 8 and approved by the superintendent of financial services and the state 9 board of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to do 10 business in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and surgi- 11 cal services and hospital service as defined in such article forty- 12 three, or medical and surgical and hospital insurance to persons who 13 contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance compa- 14 ny, or who subscribe to a plan or plans, as hereinafter provided. Any 15 such contract entered into by a public corporation shall permit any 16 officer or employee or group of officers or employees of an agency or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04353-05-6S. 2448--A 2 1 department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a plan 2 or plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for, 3 or medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such officers 4 or employees and their families. Any such contract entered into by a 5 public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and 6 subject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements as 7 may be fixed by such board or body, permit any retired officers and 8 employees or group of retired officers and employees of an agency or 9 department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to such a 10 plan or plans to provide such insurance for or service to themselves and 11 their families. The comptroller or other disbursing officer of the 12 public corporation, or of any fund out of which officers or employees of 13 such public corporation are paid, is authorized to deduct from the wages 14 or salary of such contracting or subscribing officer or employee, with 15 his prior consent, in writing, the sums required to be paid by such 16 officer or employee to such non-profit membership corporation or insur- 17 ance company. Such public corporation, if such contract or plan provides 18 that the employer shall contribute a share of the cost of such medical 19 and surgical services and hospital service, or medical and surgical and 20 hospital insurance, for its officers and employees or retired officers 21 and employees, is authorized to appropriate a sum required to be paid 22 under such contract by the public corporation as employer. The sum to be 23 paid by it under such contract, in the discretion of such public corpo- 24 ration, may be any percentage of the total cost including the whole 25 thereof. Where the compensation of any officer or employee whose posi- 26 tion is covered by medical and surgical services and hospital service or 27 medical and surgical and hospital insurance pursuant to this section is 28 paid from a special or administrative fund provided for by law, the 29 contributions required to be paid by the public corporation for such 30 coverage shall be paid from such special or administrative fund. The 31 public corporation shall be authorized to pay directly to such non-pro- 32 fit membership corporation or to such insurance company, the total of 33 such appropriation and of such officer and employee deductions. 34 2-a. Ninety days prior to the governing board of a public corporation 35 authorizing or approving a contract or plan of health insurance, or an 36 amendment thereto, for retired officers, retired employees, or their 37 families pursuant to subdivision two of this section, the public corpo- 38 ration shall give written notice of such proposed contract, plan or 39 amendment, to the retired officers, retired employees, or their families 40 who are covered under such contract or plan. Where the contract, plan or 41 amendment is contracted for as part of negotiations between a public 42 corporation and a recognized and certified employee organization pursu- 43 ant to article fourteen of the civil service law, such written notice 44 shall be given at the time such health insurance contract is binding on 45 the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their families. Such 46 written notice shall contain either: (a) the full text of such proposed 47 contract, plan or amendment and any relevant financial information 48 including, but not limited to the cost of the proposed contract, plan or 49 amendment to the public corporation and the cost to the covered retired 50 officers, retired employees, or their families; or (b) the general terms 51 of the proposed contract, plan or amendment along with the physical 52 location and web address to a secure website where the covered retired 53 officers, retired employees or their family members can obtain the full 54 text of such proposed contract, plan or amendment and any relevant 55 financial information including, but not limited to the cost of the 56 proposed contract, plan or amendment to the public corporation and theS. 2448--A 3 1 cost to the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their fami- 2 lies. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any 4 health insurance contract or plan entered into, renewed, modified, or 5 amended on or after such effective date.
