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Senate Bill S3622

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to municipal cooperative health benefit plans

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2019-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A513
Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §119-n, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S8965, A11184

2019-S3622 (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.

2019-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S3622 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3622
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. BRESLIN, SEWARD, HELMING, O'MARA -- 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, 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.
                                                            LBD05102-01-9

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