Bill Text: NY S06876 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education, in consultation with the superintendent of financial services and the office of the state comptroller, to study and prepare a report concerning school insurance reserve funds; provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06876-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6876--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 20, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  in  relation  to  directing  the  commissioner of education, in
          consultation with the superintendent of  financial  services  and  the
          office  of  the  state  comptroller,  to  study  and  prepare a report
          concerning school insurance  reserve  funds;  and  providing  for  the
          repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The commissioner of education,  in  consultation  with  the
     2  superintendent  of  financial services and the office of the state comp-
     3  troller, or the designees of such persons, shall review  and  report  on
     4  the  adequacy,  reasonableness  and  affordability  of  school insurance
     5  reserve funds as they relate to the provision of health care benefits to
     6  covered employees and prepare and deliver a report containing the  find-
     7  ings  of  the study.  Such report shall include but not be limited to an
     8  analysis of the following:
     9    (a) the typical annual costs of  providing  health  insurance  through
    10  self-insurance  by a school district and the impact that such self-insu-
    11  rance has on the annual budget of a school district, including the over-
    12  all immediate and long-term costs;
    13    (b) the costs to the employees in school districts of providing health
    14  insurance through self-insurance by the school district;
    15    (c) whether providing health insurance  through  self-insurance  by  a
    16  school  district  using  school  insurance  reserve  funds has increased
    17  access for covered school employees to health care or has made the proc-
    18  ess of getting reimbursed or getting coverage easier or more  difficult;
    19  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11586-02-1
        S. 6876--A                          2

     1    (d)  the amount of funding participating self-insured school districts
     2  have set aside in their reserve funds.
     3    §  2.  Within  one year of the effective date of this act, the commis-
     4  sioner of education shall submit the report to the governor, the  tempo-
     5  rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the minor-
     6  ity leaders of the senate and the assembly.
     7    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
     8  deemed repealed 60 days after the submission of the report  pursuant  to
     9  section two of this act.