Bill Text: NY S04255 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes municipalities and districts to enter into cooperative agreements for the provision of centralized public employee administrative and personnel services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-17 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04255-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4255
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 11, 2015
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       Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
       AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in  relation  to  authorizing
         cities,  towns,  villages,  school  districts,  boards  of cooperative
         educational services, library districts, fire  districts,  improvement
         districts  and  special districts to enter into cooperative agreements
         for the provision of centralized public  employee  administrative  and
         personnel services
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision a of section 119-n  of  the  general  municipal
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    a. The term "municipal corporation" means a county outside the city of
    5  New York, a city, a town, a village, a board of cooperative  educational
    6  services, A PUBLIC LIBRARY AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO HUNDRED FIFTY-THREE
    7  OF THE EDUCATION LAW, A fire district or a school district.
    8    S  2.  Subdivision  2 of section 119-o of the general municipal law is
    9  amended by adding a new paragraph b-1 to read as follows:
   10    B-1.   THE ESTABLISHMENT  OF  A  CENTRALIZED  OFFICE  TO  COLLECTIVELY
   11  PROVIDE:
   12    (I)  EMPLOYEE  PAYROLL,  TIME, ATTENDANCE AND PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION
   13  SERVICES;
   14    (II) PARTICIPATION IN THE NEW YORK STATE HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM;
   15    (III) A PERSONNEL OFFICE TO PROVIDE  INFORMATION  ON  EMPLOYEE  HEALTH
   16  INSURANCE AND OTHER EMPLOYEE BENEFITS;
   17    (IV)  EMPLOYEE  PARTICIPATION IN TAX DEFERRED RETIREMENT PLANS, HEALTH
   18  CARE OR MEDICAL SAVINGS PLANS, COLLEGE SAVINGS  PLANS,  AND  CHILD  CARE
   19  SAVINGS PLANS;
   20    (V)  ANY OTHER FUNCTION OR ACTIVITY TYPICALLY PERFORMED BY A PERSONNEL
   21  OR HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICE; AND
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09826-02-5
       S. 4255                             2
    1    (VI) CONTRACTING WITH QUALIFIED THIRD PARTIES FOR THE PROVISION OF ANY
    2  SERVICE NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT SUCH OFFICE'S POWERS AND DUTIES.
    3    S  3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.