Allows public libraries, urban renewal agencies and other quasi-governmental organizations created by and receiving fifty percent or more of their funding from a local government, to participate in municipal cooperative health benefit plans.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11184
IN ASSEMBLY
June 13, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Lifton) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to municipal
cooperative health benefit plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision b of section 119-n of the general municipal
2 law, as amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 b. The term "district" means a county or town improvement district for
5 which the county or town or towns in which such district is located is
6 or are required to pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment
7 of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness to be contracted
8 for the purposes of such district. The term "district" shall also mean,
9 for the purposes of joining a municipal cooperative health benefit plan
10 authorized under article forty-seven of the insurance law, a soil and
11 water conservation district established under the soil and water conser-
12 vation districts law, public libraries and urban renewal agencies, and
13 other quasi-governmental organizations created by, and receiving at
14 least fifty percent of their funding from, a general purpose local
15 government.
16 § 2. 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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