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                                  5111

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 27, 2009
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Introduced  by  Sens.  BRESLIN,  FOLEY, C. JOHNSON, STACHOWSKI, VALESKY,
  LAVALLE -- 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 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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terms as the president may  deem  appropriate,  and  the  president  may
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.