Bill Text: NY A08602 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8602

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires health benefits for state and retired state employees have the option to only cover the employee or retiree and their spouse or domestic partner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-12 - referred to governmental employees [A08602 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08602-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8602

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 12, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  requiring  health
          benefits  for  state and retired state employees to have the option to
          only cover the employee or retiree and their spouse or domestic  part-
          ner

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

     1    Section 1. Section 164 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. Each employee shall be entitled  to  choose  between  coverage  for
     4  themselves,  coverage  for themselves and their spouse or domestic part-
     5  ner, or coverage for themselves, their spouse or domestic  partner,  and
     6  their dependents.
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
     8  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
     9  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    10  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
    11  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05460-01-3