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Assembly Bill A6580

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of certain public employee retirees

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2013-A6580 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5381
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Employees
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A9923
2015-2016: S3252
2017-2018: S4637
2019-2020: S2284
2021-2022: S5184
2023-2024: S2728
2025-2026: S4732

2013-A6580 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.

2013-A6580 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6580

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 10, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Governmental Employees

AN  ACT  in  relation  to  affecting  the  health insurance benefits and
  contributions of certain retired public employees

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

  Section  1.  On  and  after  the  effective date of this act, a public
employer shall be prohibited from diminishing the health insurance bene-
fits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such
employer makes for such health insurance coverage  below  the  level  of
such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their
dependents  by  such employer as of the effective date of this act.  For
the purpose of this act, (1) "public employer" shall mean the following:
(i) the state; (ii) a county, city, town  or  village;  (iii)  a  school
district,  board  of cooperative educational services, vocational educa-
tion and extension board or a school district as enumerated in section 1
of chapter 566 of the laws of 1967, as amended;  (iv)  any  governmental
entity  operating  a  college or university; (v) a public improvement or
special district including police  or  fire  districts;  (vi)  a  public
authority,  commission or public benefit corporation; or (vii) any other
public corporation, agency, instrumentality or unit of government  which
exercises  governmental  power  under  the  laws  of this state; and (2)
"retiree" shall mean a retiree of the New York state  and  local  police
and  fire  retirement  system or the New York state and local employees'
retirement system who retires from police service or fire  service  that
qualifies  under  subdivision  11  of  section 302 of the retirement and
social security law or a retiree of the New York  city  fire  department
pension  fund  who  was represented by the collective bargaining unit of
Local 854, I.A.F.F.
  S 2. Nothing contained in this act shall  supersede  or  diminish  the
terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

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