Provides that when a retired member of the fire or police department in the city of New York dies and is enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving spouse or eligible domestic partner, until he or she dies, shall be afforded the right to such health insurance coverage; such plans include premerger retirees who were police officers employed by the New York city housing authority or the New York city transit authority.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4611
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 24, 2009
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Introduced by Sens. ONORATO, BONACIC, DILAN, HASSELL-THOMPSON, C. JOHN-
SON, KLEIN, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, STAVISKY, THOMPSON -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to health insurance coverage for surviving domestic partners
of members of the police department and the fire department who are
enrolled in a health insurance plan
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of paragraph 2 of subdivision
2 b of section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York,
3 subparagraph (ii) as amended by chapter 339 of the laws of 2008 and
4 subparagraph (iii) as amended by chapter 436 of the laws of 2001, are
5 amended to read as follows:
6 (ii) Where a retired member of the fire department dies and is
7 enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving spouse or eligible
8 domestic partner shall be afforded the right to such health insurance
9 coverage and health insurance coverage which is predicated on the
10 insured's enrollment in the hospital and medical program for the aged
11 and disabled under the social security act as is provided for retirees
12 and their dependents as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph,
13 provided such surviving spouse or eligible domestic partner pays one
14 hundred two percent of the group rate for such coverage, with two
15 percent intended to cover administrative costs incurred, provided such
16 spouse or partner elects such health insurance coverage within one year
17 of the death of his or her spouse or partner. For purposes of this
18 subparagraph, "retired member of the fire department" shall include
19 persons who, immediately prior to retirement, were employed by the fire
20 department of the city of New York in a title whose duties are those of
21 an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (as those terms are defined in section three thousand one of the public
2 health law), or whose duties required the direct supervision of employ-
3 ees whose duties are those of an emergency medical technician or
4 advanced emergency medical technician (as those terms are defined in
5 section three thousand one of the public health law).
6 (iii) Where a retired member of the police department, including
7 premerger retirees who were police officers employed by the New York
8 city housing authority or the New York city transit authority, dies and
9 is enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving spouse or eligible
10 domestic partner shall be afforded the right to such health insurance
11 coverage and health insurance coverage which is predicated on the
12 insured's enrollment in the hospital and medical program for the aged
13 and disabled under the social security act as is provided for retirees
14 and their dependents as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph,
15 provided such surviving spouse or eligible domestic partner pays one
16 hundred two percent of the group rate for such coverage, with two
17 percent intended to cover administrative costs incurred, provided such
18 spouse or partner elects such health insurance coverage within one year
19 of the death of his or her spouse or partner.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
