STATE OF NEW YORK
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3846
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, CROUCH, BLANKENBUSH -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Governmental Employees
AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to increasing local
government participation in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil service law is amended by adding a new section
2 163-b to read as follows:
3 § 163-b. Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan. The president, as defined
4 in subdivision two of section two of this chapter, is authorized to
5 promulgate rules and regulations permitting eligible agencies to partic-
6 ipate in the Empire Plan Prescription Drug Plan without becoming a
7 participating agency under the New York State Health Insurance Plan.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
9 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00574-01-9
