Bill Text: NY S04697 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires dental insurance plans to automatically carry over a portion of the enrollee's unused benefit amount of up to 25% of the total benefit amount for use in the succeeding year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S04697 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04697-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 4697                                                  A. 6834
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                     March 21, 2019
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
          Pensions
        IN  ASSEMBLY  --  Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
        AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to  requiring  dental
          insurance   plans  to  automatically  carry  over  a  portion  of  the
          enrollee's benefit amount for use in the succeeding year
          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 160 of the civil service law, as
     2  amended by chapter 414 of the laws  of  1980,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  The  president,  in  his  discretion, is hereby empowered to make,
     5  amend and rescind, from time to time, regulations establishing a  dental
     6  insurance  plan  which  shall  be  a  part  of the health insurance plan
     7  authorized by this article. Such regulations may provide for negotiating
     8  unit, employee and employer participation or nonparticipation, employee,
     9  dependent and retiree eligibility or noneligibility  and  such  contrib-
    10  ution  rates as the president may determine even though such regulations
    11  establish standards which differ from those applicable by law  to  other
    12  parts  of such health insurance plan; provided, however, that such regu-
    13  lations shall require dental insurance plans to  automatically  annually
    14  carry  over any unused benefit amount of such plan in an amount up to at
    15  least twenty-five percent of the enrollee's  benefit  amount  and  which
    16  shall be added to the enrollee's benefit amount for the succeeding year.
    17  The president is hereby authorized and directed to provide in such regu-
    18  lations  for  participation  in  the  dental insurance plan by retirees;
    19  provided, however, that the claims  experience  for  retirees  shall  be
    20  separately  rated  and  premiums established separate from other partic-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10569-02-9

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     1  ipants in the plan and provided further that the full costs  of  partic-
     2  ipation in such plan, including all administrative costs, shall be borne
     3  by  such  retirees. Considering the dental insurance plan as a whole, no
     4  regulation  enacted pursuant to this subdivision shall provide or permit
     5  a benefit structure inconsistent with the most efficient and  economical
     6  administration of such plan.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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