STATE OF NEW YORK
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7871
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 19, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. SPANO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Employees
AN ACT prohibiting public employers from diminishing the health insur-
ance benefits and contributions of retired public employees
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. On and after the effective date of this act, a public
2 employer shall be prohibited from diminishing the health insurance bene-
3 fits provided to public employee retirees and their dependents or the
4 contributions such employer makes for such health insurance coverage
5 below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such
6 retirees and their dependents by such employer unless a corresponding
7 diminution of benefits or contributions is effected from the level of
8 benefits or contributions provided to a corresponding group of active
9 employees for such retirees.
10 § 2. For purposes of this act, "public employer" shall mean the
11 following: (i) the state; (ii) a county, city, town or village; (iii)
12 any governmental entity operating a college or university; (iv) a public
13 improvement or special district; (v) a public authority, commission or
14 public benefit corporation; or (vi) any other public corporation, agen-
15 cy, instrumentality or unit of government which exercises governmental
16 power under the laws of this state.
17 § 3. Nothing contained in this act shall supersede or diminish the
18 terms of a collective bargaining agreement or an administrative code.
19 § 4. Nothing contained in this act shall require a public employer
20 which does not provide health insurance benefits to retirees and their
21 dependents as of the effective date of this act to offer such benefits.
22 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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