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Assembly Bill A6091

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Ensures identical health benefits for public retirees

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2025-A6091 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4724
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Civil Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §161, Civ Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9215, S8192
2023-2024: A3896, S4465

2025-A6091 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.

2025-A6091 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6091
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Employees
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil service law, in relation to ensuring identical
   health benefits for skilled nursing care for public retirees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 161 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. THERE SHALL BE NO REDUCTION OF BENEFITS FOR  SKILLED  NURSING  CARE
 PROVIDED  TO  RETIRED  EMPLOYEES OR COVERED DEPENDENTS UNDER SUCH HEALTH
 BENEFIT PLAN AT THE TIME  SUCH  PERSON  BECOMES  ELIGIBLE  FOR  MEDICARE
 COVERAGE;  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, RETIREE BENEFITS UNDER SUCH HEALTH BENEFIT
 PLAN MAY BE COORDINATED WITH AND TREATED AS SECONDARY INSURANCE TO MEDI-
 CARE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05117-01-5

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