Bill Text: NY S02356 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to membership of volunteer fire and volunteer ambulance members in group or blanket accident and health insurance policies; provides that such members must be added to a contract to provide health insurance if the public corporation elects to provide such insurance notwithstanding the fact that such members may not meet the definition of "employee".

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S02356 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02356-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2356
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to membership in group or
         blanket accident and health insurance policies
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subsection (a) of section 3221 of the insur-
    2  ance law is amended to read as follows:
    3    (3)  That all new employees or new members in the classes eligible for
    4  insurance must be added to such  class  for  which  they  are  eligible.
    5  ACTIVE  MEMBERS OF VOLUNTEER FIRE AND VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE COMPANIES MUST
    6  BE ADDED TO A CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS TO PROVIDE  HEALTH  INSURANCE  IF  A
    7  PUBLIC  CORPORATION  ELECTS  TO PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE TO SUCH MEMBERS
    8  PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION  NINETY-TWO-A  OF  THE  GENERAL
    9  MUNICIPAL  LAW,  NOTWITHSTANDING THE FACT THAT SUCH MEMBERS MAY NOT MEET
   10  THE DEFINITION OF AN "EMPLOYEE" THAT MAY BE CONTAINED IN A  CONTRACT  OF
   11  INSURANCE  BETWEEN  SUCH  PUBLIC  CORPORATION  AND  A PROVIDER OF HEALTH
   12  INSURANCE SERVICES.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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