Bill Text: NY S07466 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

---

Bill Title: Relates to long term care insurance for state and retired state employees.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-04 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S07466 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07466-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7466
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN  --  (at request of the Department of Civil
          Service) -- 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 long term care
          insurance for state and retired state employees
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  172 of the civil service law, a added by chapter
     2  585 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 172. Long term care insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized
     4  [and directed] to establish a long term care insurance  plan  for  state
     5  officers  and  employees and their dependents and officers and employees
     6  of the state colleges of agriculture, home economics,  industrial  labor
     7  relations  and  veterinary  medicine,  the state agricultural station at
     8  Geneva, and any other institution or agency  under  the  management  and
     9  control  of  Cornell  University  as  the representative of the board of
    10  trustees of the state university of New York, and the state  college  of
    11  ceramics  under  the  management and control of Alfred University as the
    12  representative of the board of trustees of the state university  of  New
    13  York  and  their dependents, and for the employees and retired employees
    14  of public authorities, public benefit  corporations,  school  districts,
    15  special districts, district corporations, municipal corporations exclud-
    16  ing active employees and retired employees of cities having a population
    17  of  one  million or more inhabitants whose compensation is or was before
    18  retirement paid out of the city treasury, or other appropriate agencies,
    19  subdivisions or quasi-public organizations of the state and their depen-
    20  dents as defined by the regulations of the president, which, subject  to
    21  the  conditions  and  limitations  contained in this article, and in the
    22  regulations of the president, will provide  for  insurance  against  the
    23  financial costs of long term care.
    24    §  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 173 of the civil service law, as added
    25  by chapter 585 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
    26    1. The president is hereby authorized [and  directed]  to  purchase  a
    27  contract  or contracts to provide long term care benefits under the long
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14255-01-6
        S. 7466                             2
     1  term care insurance plan established in accordance with  the  provisions
     2  of  this  article.  [Such] If purchased, such long term care contract or
     3  contracts shall be purchased from one or  more  corporations  authorized
     4  under section one thousand one hundred seventeen of the insurance law to
     5  issue long term care insurance contracts in this state.
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.