Relates to certain benefits provided pursuant to collective bargaining agreements; provides that the temporary president of the senate and speaker of the assembly shall approve changes to health benefits for employees or retirees not subject to a collective bargaining agreement.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8459
IN SENATE
January 31, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
AN ACT to amend the civil service law and the legislative law, in
relation to certain benefits provided pursuant to collective bargain-
ing agreements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 167 of the civil service law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 491 of the laws of 2011, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 8. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, where and to the
5 extent that an agreement between the state and an employee organization
6 entered into pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter so provides,
7 the state cost of premium or subscription charges for eligible employees
8 covered by such agreement may be modified pursuant to the terms of such
9 agreement. The president, with the approval of the director of the budg-
10 et, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
11 bly, may extend the modified state cost of premium or subscription
12 charges for employees or retirees not subject to an agreement referenced
13 above and shall promulgate the necessary rules or regulations to imple-
14 ment this provision.
15 § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 49 to read
16 as follows:
17 § 49. Legislation implementing collective bargaining agreements.
18 Legislation which enacts or amends any provision of law for the purpose
19 of implementing an agreement between the state and an employee organiza-
20 tion entered into pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law
21 shall be limited to the provisions necessary to implement such agree-
22 ment.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
24 agreements entered into on and after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10400-01-3
