S02356 Summary:
| BILL NO | S02356 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | SEWARD |
| COSPNSR | MARCHIONE, PANEPINTO |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd S3221, Ins L | |
| Relates to membership of volunteer fire and volunteer ambulance members in group or blanket accident and health insurance policies; provides that such members must be added to a contract to provide health insurance if the public corporation elects to provide such insurance notwithstanding the fact that such members may not meet the definition of "employee". | |
S02356 Actions:
| BILL NO | S02356 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/22/2015 | REFERRED TO INSURANCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 01/06/2016 | REFERRED TO INSURANCE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Go to topS02356 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2356 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 22, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to membership in group or blanket accident and health insurance policies The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subsection (a) of section 3221 of the insur- 2 ance law is amended to read as follows: 3 (3) That all new employees or new members in the classes eligible for 4 insurance must be added to such class for which they are eligible. 5 Active members of volunteer fire and volunteer ambulance companies must 6 be added to a contract or contracts to provide health insurance if a 7 public corporation elects to provide health insurance to such members 8 pursuant to subdivision seven of section ninety-two-a of the general 9 municipal law, notwithstanding the fact that such members may not meet 10 the definition of an "employee" that may be contained in a contract of 11 insurance between such public corporation and a provider of health 12 insurance services. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07096-01-5