Bill Text: NY A07870 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental employees [A07870 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07870-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7870

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. ABINANTI, McDONALD -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Governmental Employees

        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.
                                                                   LBD11733-01-9

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     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.  Forty-five  days prior to the governing board of a public corpo-
    27  ration authorizing or approving a contract or plan of health  insurance,
    28  or  an  amendment  thereto,  for retired officers, retired employees, or
    29  their families pursuant to subdivision two of this section,  the  public
    30  corporation shall give written notice of such proposed contract, plan or
    31  amendment, to the retired officers, retired employees, or their families
    32  who are covered under such contract or plan. Where the contract, plan or
    33  amendment  is  contracted  for  as part of negotiations between a public
    34  corporation and a recognized and certified employee organization  pursu-
    35  ant  to  article  fourteen of the civil service law, such written notice
    36  shall be given at the time such health insurance contract is binding  on
    37  the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their families. Such
    38  written  notice shall contain either: (a) the full text of such proposed
    39  contract, plan or  amendment  and  any  relevant  financial  information
    40  including, but not limited to the cost of the proposed contract, plan or
    41  amendment  to the public corporation and the cost to the covered retired
    42  officers, retired employees, or their families; or (b) the general terms
    43  of the proposed contract, plan or  amendment  along  with  the  physical
    44  location  and  web address to a secure website where the covered retired
    45  officers, retired employees or their family members can obtain the  full
    46  text  of  such  proposed  contract,  plan  or amendment and any relevant
    47  financial information including, but not limited  to  the  cost  of  the
    48  proposed  contract,  plan or amendment to the public corporation and the
    49  cost to the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their  fami-
    50  lies.
    51    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to any
    52  health insurance contract or plan entered into,  renewed,  modified,  or
    53  amended on or after such effective date.
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