S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1173
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 7, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 requiring dental
insurance plans to automatically carry over a portion of the
enrollee's benefit amount for use in the succeeding year
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 160 of the civil service law, as
amended by chapter 414 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as
follows:
2. The president, in his discretion, is hereby empowered to make,
amend and rescind, from time to time, regulations establishing a dental
insurance plan which shall be a part of the health insurance plan
authorized by this article. Such regulations may provide for negotiating
unit, employee and employer participation or nonparticipation, employee,
dependent and retiree eligibility or noneligibility and such contrib-
ution rates as the president may determine even though such regulations
establish standards which differ from those applicable by law to other
parts of such health insurance plan; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH REGU-
LATIONS SHALL REQUIRE DENTAL INSURANCE PLANS TO AUTOMATICALLY ANNUALLY
CARRY OVER ANY UNUSED BENEFIT AMOUNT OF SUCH PLAN IN AN AMOUNT UP TO AT
LEAST TWENTY-FIVE PERCENT OF THE ENROLLEE'S BENEFIT AMOUNT AND WHICH
SHALL BE ADDED TO THE ENROLLEE'S BENEFIT AMOUNT FOR THE SUCCEEDING YEAR.
The president is hereby authorized and directed to provide in such regu-
lations for participation in the dental insurance plan by retirees;
provided, however, that the claims experience for retirees shall be
separately rated and premiums established separate from other partic-
ipants in the plan and provided further that the full costs of partic-
ipation in such plan, including all administrative costs, shall be borne
by such retirees. Considering the dental insurance plan as a whole, no
regulation enacted pursuant to this subdivision shall provide or permit
a benefit structure inconsistent with the most efficient and economical
administration of such plan.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05054-01-1