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                                  8215

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 7, 2009
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Introduced  by M. of A. DESTITO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Insurance

AN ACT to amend the general municipal law and the civil service law,  in
  relation  to  providing  health  services  and insurance for volunteer
  firefighters and ambulance workers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 92-a of the general municipal law,
as  added  by  chapter  331  of  the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
follows:
  7. The provisions of this section shall [apply for]  PERMIT  A  PUBLIC
CORPORATION  TO  PROVIDE  coverage  [of]  FOR volunteer firefighters, as
defined in section three of the volunteer firefighters' benefit law, and
volunteer ambulance workers, as defined in subdivision  one  of  section
three of the volunteer ambulance workers' benefit law, provided however,
that  the total cost of participation by such volunteers and their fami-
lies shall be borne by such volunteers.
  S 2.   Subdivision 2 of section 163  of  the  civil  service  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  617  of  the  laws  of 1967, is amended to read as
follows:
  2. The contract or contracts shall provide for  health  insurance  for
retired employees of the state and of the state colleges of agriculture,
home  economics, industrial labor relations and veterinary medicine, the
state agricultural experiment station at Geneva, and any other  institu-
tion or agency under the management and control of Cornell university as
the  representative  of the board of trustees of the state university of
New York, and the state college of ceramics  under  the  management  and
control of Alfred university as the representative of the board of trus-
tees  of the state university of New York, and their spouses and depend-
ent children as defined by the regulations of  the  president,  on  such
terms  as  the  president  may  deem  appropriate, and the president may

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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authorize the inclusion in the plan of the employees and retired employ-
ees  of  public  authorities,  public   benefit   corporations,   school
districts,  special  districts,  district corporations, municipal corpo-
rations  excluding  active  employees  and  retired  employees of cities
having a population of one million or  more  inhabitants  whose  compen-
sation  is  or  was  before retirement paid out of the city treasury, or
other appropriate agencies, subdivisions or  quasi-public  organizations
of  the  state, INCLUDING ACTIVE MEMBERS OF VOLUNTEER FIRE AND VOLUNTEER
AMBULANCE COMPANIES SERVING ONE OR MORE MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS  PURSUANT
TO  SUBDIVISION  SEVEN  OF SECTION NINETY-TWO-A OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL
LAW, and their spouses and dependent children as defined  by  the  regu-
lations  of  the  president.  Any  such corporation, district, agency or
organization electing to participate in the plan shall  be  required  to
pay  its  proportionate  share  of the expenses of administration of the
plan in such amounts and at such times as determined and  fixed  by  the
president.    All  amounts  payable  for such expenses of administration
shall be paid to the commissioner of taxation and finance and  shall  be
applied  to  the  reimbursement  of  funds  previously advanced for such
purposes.  Neither the state nor any other participant in the plan shall
be charged with the particular experience attributable to the  employees
of  the participant, and all dividends or retroactive rate credits shall
be distributed pro-rata based upon  the  number  of  employees  of  such
participant covered by the plan.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.