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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4324
 
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 9, 2017
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, AKSHAR, LARKIN, MARCHIONE -- read twice and
          ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
          Local Government
 
        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  providing
          notice  of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees,
          and their families

          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 92-a of the general municipal law,
     2  as  amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984 and as further amended by
     3  section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended  and
     4  a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
     5    2.  [A]  Consistent  with  the provisions of subdivision two-a of this
     6  section, a public corporation may contract with a non-profit  membership
     7  corporation,  organized  under  article forty-three of the insurance law
     8  and approved by the superintendent of financial services and  the  state
     9  board  of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to do
    10  business in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and  surgi-
    11  cal  services  and  hospital  service  as defined in such article forty-
    12  three, or medical and surgical and hospital  insurance  to  persons  who
    13  contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance compa-
    14  ny,  or  who  subscribe to a plan or plans, as hereinafter provided. Any
    15  such contract entered into by a  public  corporation  shall  permit  any
    16  officer  or  employee  or group of officers or employees of an agency or
    17  department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a  plan
    18  or  plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for,
    19  or medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such  officers
    20  or  employees  and  their  families. Any such contract entered into by a
    21  public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and
    22  subject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements  as
    23  may  be  fixed  by  such  board or body, permit any retired officers and
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05751-02-7
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     1  employees or group of retired officers and employees  of  an  agency  or
     2  department  of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to such a
     3  plan or plans to provide such insurance for or service to themselves and
     4  their  families.  The  comptroller  or  other  disbursing officer of the
     5  public corporation, or of any fund out of which officers or employees of
     6  such public corporation are paid, is authorized to deduct from the wages
     7  or salary of such contracting or subscribing officer or  employee,  with
     8  his  prior  consent,  in  writing,  the sums required to be paid by such
     9  officer or employee to such non-profit membership corporation or  insur-
    10  ance company. Such public corporation, if such contract or plan provides
    11  that  the  employer shall contribute a share of the cost of such medical
    12  and surgical services and hospital service, or medical and surgical  and
    13  hospital  insurance,  for its officers and employees or retired officers
    14  and employees, is authorized to appropriate a sum required  to  be  paid
    15  under such contract by the public corporation as employer. The sum to be
    16  paid  by it under such contract, in the discretion of such public corpo-
    17  ration, may be any percentage of the  total  cost  including  the  whole
    18  thereof.  Where  the compensation of any officer or employee whose posi-
    19  tion is covered by medical and surgical services and hospital service or
    20  medical and surgical and hospital insurance pursuant to this section  is
    21  paid  from  a  special  or  administrative fund provided for by law, the
    22  contributions required to be paid by the  public  corporation  for  such
    23  coverage  shall  be  paid  from such special or administrative fund. The
    24  public corporation shall be authorized to pay directly to such  non-pro-
    25  fit  membership  corporation  or to such insurance company, the total of
    26  such appropriation and of such officer and employee deductions.
    27    2-a. Forty-five days prior to the governing board of a  public  corpo-
    28  ration  authorizing or approving a contract or plan of health insurance,
    29  or an amendment thereto, for retired  officers,  retired  employees,  or
    30  their  families  pursuant to subdivision two of this section, the public
    31  corporation shall give written notice of such proposed contract, plan or
    32  amendment, to the retired officers, retired employees, or their families
    33  who are covered under such contract or plan. Where the contract, plan or
    34  amendment is contracted for as part of  negotiations  between  a  public
    35  corporation  and a recognized and certified employee organization pursu-
    36  ant to article fourteen of the civil service law,  such  written  notice
    37  shall  be given at the time such health insurance contract is binding on
    38  the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their families. Such
    39  written notice shall contain either: (a) the full text of such  proposed
    40  contract,  plan  or  amendment  and  any  relevant financial information
    41  including, but not limited to the cost of the proposed contract, plan or
    42  amendment to the public corporation and the cost to the covered  retired
    43  officers, retired employees, or their families; or (b) the general terms
    44  of  the  proposed  contract,  plan  or amendment along with the physical
    45  location and web address to a secure website where the  covered  retired
    46  officers,  retired employees or their family members can obtain the full
    47  text of such proposed contract,  plan  or  amendment  and  any  relevant
    48  financial  information  including,  but  not  limited to the cost of the
    49  proposed contract, plan or amendment to the public corporation  and  the
    50  cost  to the covered retired officers, retired employees, or their fami-
    51  lies.
    52    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
    53  health  insurance  contract  or plan entered into, renewed, modified, or
    54  amended on or after such effective date.