Bill Text: NY S06115 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Grants employee discretion over coverage for dependents; authorizes each employee to have the option of selecting coverage solely for him or herself and his or her spouse.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S06115 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06115-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6115 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 12, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to granting employ- ee's discretion over coverage for dependents The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 164 of the civil service law, as 2 amended by chapter 617 of the laws of 1967, and as designated by section 3 1 of part W of chapter 56 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 1. Each employee shall be entitled to have his or her spouse [and] 6 and/or dependent children, at such employee's discretion, as defined by 7 the regulations of the president, included in the coverage upon agreeing 8 to pay his or her contribution, if any, to the cost of such coverage for 9 such dependents. Each employee shall have the option of selecting 10 coverage solely for him or herself and his or her spouse. The president 11 shall adopt regulations governing the discontinuance and resumption by 12 employees of coverage for dependents. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10585-01-1
