Assembly Bill A1227

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A1227 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3687
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง92-a, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7872
2015-2016: A639, S2448
2017-2018: A5210, A10337, S4324, S8118
2019-2020: A7870, S5930
2021-2022: A4099, S7074
2023-2024: S2690

2013-A1227 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to changes in health insurance contracts or plans for retired officers, employees, and their families.

2013-A1227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1227

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI, GUNTHER, ROBERTS, GIBSON, PAULIN, STEV-
  ENSON,  BRINDISI,  GALEF  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GABRYSZAK,
  MONTESANO, TITONE -- read  once  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on
  Governmental Employees

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:

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 92-a of the general municipal law,
as amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984 and as further amended  by
section  104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended and
a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
  2. [A] CONSISTENT WITH THE PROVISIONS OF  SUBDIVISION  TWO-A  OF  THIS
SECTION,  A public corporation may contract with a non-profit membership
corporation, organized under article forty-three of  the  insurance  law
and  approved  by the superintendent of financial services and the state
board of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to  do
business  in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and surgi-
cal services and hospital service as  defined  in  such  article  forty-
three,  or  medical  and  surgical and hospital insurance to persons who
contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance compa-
ny, or who subscribe to a plan or plans, as  hereinafter  provided.  Any
such  contract  entered  into  by  a public corporation shall permit any
officer or employee or group of officers or employees of  an  agency  or
department  of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a plan
or plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance  for,
or  medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such officers
or employees and their families. Any such contract  entered  into  by  a
public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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