Senate Bill S8965

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to municipal cooperative health benefit plans

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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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2017-S8965 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11184
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §119-n, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:
S3622, A513

2017-S8965 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows public libraries, urban renewal agencies and other quasi-governmental organizations created by and receiving fifty percent or more of their funding from a local government, to participate in municipal cooperative health benefit plans.

2017-S8965 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8965 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8965
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 8, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SEWARD, HELMING, O'MARA -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  municipal
   cooperative health benefit plans
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision b of section 119-n  of  the  general  municipal
 law,  as  amended by chapter 191 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read
 as follows:
   b. The term "district" means a county or town improvement district for
 which the county or town or towns in which such district is  located  is
 or  are required to pledge its or their faith and credit for the payment
 of the principal of and interest on all indebtedness  to  be  contracted
 for  the purposes of such district. The term "district" shall also mean,
 for the purposes of joining a municipal cooperative health benefit  plan
 authorized  under  article  forty-seven of the insurance law, a soil and
 water conservation district established under the soil and water conser-
 vation districts law, PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND URBAN RENEWAL  AGENCIES,  AND
 OTHER  QUASI-GOVERNMENTAL  ORGANIZATIONS  CREATED  BY,  AND RECEIVING AT
 LEAST FIFTY PERCENT OF THEIR  FUNDING  FROM,  A  GENERAL  PURPOSE  LOCAL
 GOVERNMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16223-01-8

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