Bill Text: NY S02448 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2448
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  FARLEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       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
   17  department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a  plan
   18  or  plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for,
   19  or medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such  officers
   20  or  employees  and  their  families. Any such contract entered into by a
   21  public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and
   22  subject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements  as
   23  may  be  fixed  by  such  board or body, permit any retired officers and
   24  employees or group of retired officers and employees  of  an  agency  or
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04353-01-5
       S. 2448                             2
    1  department  of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to such a
    2  plan or plans to provide such insurance for or service to themselves and
    3  their families. The comptroller  or  other  disbursing  officer  of  the
    4  public corporation, or of any fund out of which officers or employees of
    5  such public corporation are paid, is authorized to deduct from the wages
    6  or  salary  of such contracting or subscribing officer or employee, with
    7  his prior consent, in writing, the sums required  to  be  paid  by  such
    8  officer  or employee to such non-profit membership corporation or insur-
    9  ance company. Such public corporation, if such contract or plan provides
   10  that the employer shall contribute a share of the cost of  such  medical
   11  and  surgical services and hospital service, or medical and surgical and
   12  hospital insurance, for its officers and employees or  retired  officers
   13  and  employees,  is  authorized to appropriate a sum required to be paid
   14  under such contract by the public corporation as employer. The sum to be
   15  paid by it under such contract, in the discretion of such public  corpo-
   16  ration,  may  be  any  percentage  of the total cost including the whole
   17  thereof. Where the compensation of any officer or employee  whose  posi-
   18  tion is covered by medical and surgical services and hospital service or
   19  medical  and surgical and hospital insurance pursuant to this section is
   20  paid from a special or administrative fund  provided  for  by  law,  the
   21  contributions  required  to  be  paid by the public corporation for such
   22  coverage shall be paid from such special  or  administrative  fund.  The
   23  public  corporation shall be authorized to pay directly to such non-pro-
   24  fit membership corporation or to such insurance company,  the  total  of
   25  such appropriation and of such officer and employee deductions.
   26    2-A.  PRIOR  TO EXECUTING OR AMENDING A CONTRACT OR PLAN THAT PROVIDES
   27  HEALTH INSURANCE TO  RETIRED  OFFICERS,  EMPLOYEES,  OR  THEIR  FAMILIES
   28  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION, A PUBLIC CORPORATION SHALL
   29  GIVE NINETY DAYS NOTICE OF SUCH PROPOSED CONTRACT TO THE  RETIRED  OFFI-
   30  CERS,  EMPLOYEES,  OR  THEIR  FAMILY  MEMBERS WHO ARE COVERED UNDER SUCH
   31  CONTRACT. THE PUBLIC CORPORATION SHALL STATE IN THE  NOTICE:    (A)  THE
   32  GENERAL  TERMS  OF  THE PROPOSED CONTRACT OR AMENDMENT; (B) THE LOCATION
   33  WHERE THE COVERED RETIRED OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, OR THEIR  FAMILY  MEMBERS
   34  CAN  OBTAIN  THE  FULL  TEXT  OF  SUCH PROPOSED CONTRACT OR PLAN AND ANY
   35  CHANGES THERETO; AND (C) ANY RELEVANT FINANCIAL  INFORMATION  INCLUDING,
   36  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  THE  COST OF THE PROPOSED CONTRACT TO THE PUBLIC
   37  CORPORATION AND THE COST TO THE RETIRED OFFICERS,  EMPLOYEES,  OR  THEIR
   38  FAMILIES. THE NOTICE SHALL BE FORWARDED TO THE COVERED RETIRED OFFICERS,
   39  EMPLOYEES, OR THEIR FAMILIES, AND SHALL ALSO BE POSTED IN A PUBLIC PLACE
   40  AT  THE  OFFICES OF SUCH PUBLIC CORPORATION, ON ANY WEBSITE PUBLISHED OR
   41  MAINTAINED BY THE PUBLIC CORPORATION, AND IN  ANY  OTHER  PLACE  LOCATED
   42  WITHIN  THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH PUBLIC CORPORATION WHERE PUBLIC NOTICES
   43  ARE GENERALLY PUBLISHED.
   44    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
   45  health  insurance  contract  or plan entered into, renewed, modified, or
   46  amended on or after such effective date.