STATE OF NEW YORK
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1090
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 requiring dental
insurance coverage to be offered to employees that is effective imme-
diately upon the starting date of employment
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] the president's discretion, is hereby
5 empowered to make, amend and rescind, from time to time, regulations
6 establishing a dental insurance plan which shall be a part of the health
7 insurance plan authorized by this article. Such regulations may provide
8 for negotiating unit, employee and employer participation or nonpartic-
9 ipation, employee, dependent and retiree eligibility or noneligibility
10 and such contribution rates as the president may determine even though
11 such regulations establish standards which differ from those applicable
12 by law to other parts of such health insurance plan; provided, however,
13 that such regulations shall require employers to offer dental insurance
14 coverage which is effective immediately upon the starting date of
15 employment. The president is hereby authorized and directed to provide
16 in such regulations for participation in the dental insurance plan by
17 retirees; provided, however, that the claims experience for retirees
18 shall be separately rated and premiums established separate from other
19 participants in the plan and provided further that the full costs of
20 participation in such plan, including all administrative costs, shall be
21 borne by such retirees. Considering the dental insurance plan as a
22 whole, no regulation enacted pursuant to this subdivision shall provide
23 or permit a benefit structure inconsistent with the most efficient and
24 economical administration of such plan.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03197-01-5
