Senate Bill S7466

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to long term care insurance for state and retired state employees

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions Committee

  • 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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2015-S7466 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§172 & 173, Civ Serv L

2015-S7466 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to long term care insurance for state and retired state employees.

2015-S7466 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7466 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7466

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 4, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN  --  (at request of the Department of Civil
  Service) -- 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, in relation to long term care
  insurance for state and retired state employees

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

  Section  1.  Section  172 of the civil service law, a added by chapter
585 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  S 172. Long term care insurance. 1. The president is hereby authorized
[and directed] to establish a long term care insurance  plan  for  state
officers  and  employees and their dependents and officers and employees
of the state colleges of agriculture, home economics,  industrial  labor
relations  and  veterinary  medicine,  the state agricultural station at
Geneva, and any other institution 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 trustees of the state university  of  New
York  and  their dependents, and for the employees and retired employees
of public authorities, public benefit  corporations,  school  districts,
special districts, district corporations, municipal corporations exclud-
ing active employees and retired employees of cities having a population
of  one  million or more inhabitants whose compensation is or was before
retirement paid out of the city treasury, or other appropriate agencies,
subdivisions or quasi-public organizations of the state and their depen-
dents as defined by the regulations of the president, which, subject  to
the  conditions  and  limitations  contained in this article, and in the
regulations of the president, will provide  for  insurance  against  the
financial costs of long term care.
  S  2.  Subdivision 1 of section 173 of the civil service law, as added
by chapter 585 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
  1. The president is hereby authorized [and  directed]  to  purchase  a
contract  or contracts to provide long term care benefits under the long

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

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