NY State Senate Bill 2025-S8513A

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 07, 2026	advanced to third reading
May 06, 2026	2nd report cal. amended (t) 8513a
May 05, 2026	1st report cal.900
Jan 07, 2026	referred to local government
Sep 24, 2025	referred to rules

Votes

- May 5, 2026 - Local Government Committee Vote
  S8513A
  
  Aye
  
  7
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  
  0
  - - Local Government Committee Vote: May 5, 2026
      
      aye (7)
      
      Baskin
      
      Brouk
      
      Fahy
      
      Martinez
      
      Rolison
      
      Skoufis
      
      Weik

Bill Amendments

Original

A (Active)

2025-S8513 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9183
Law Section:: General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §6-n, Gen Muni L

2025-S8513 - Summary

Permits the Johnson City central school district to create an insurance reserve fund.

2025-S8513 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8513

SPONSOR: WEBB
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Johnson City school district to create an insurance reserve fund

 
TITLE OF BILL:

AN ACT to amend the General Municipal Law, in relation to permitting the
Johnson City School District to create an insurance reserve fund

 
PURPOSE OR THE BILL:

This bill allows the Johnson City School District to establish an insur-
ance reserve fund for the purpose of making payments related to health-
related claims.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends section 6-n of the General Municipal Law to add the
Johnson City School District to the list of school districts within the
state authorized to establish an insurance reserve fund.

Section 2. Establishes the effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In an effort to control the rising costs associated with insurance
premiums, many school districts are transitioning to a self-insured
health insurance model to provide coverage for their faculty and staff.
The Johnson City School District has elected to provide coverage through
such a plan effective January 1, 2026.

Although the overall cost associated with a self-insured plan is lower
than a traditional health plan, there are greater cost fluctuations
resulting from the unpredictability of resulting health claims. With
school districts being prohibited from retaining more than four percent
of their budget in an unappropriated fund balance or reserve fund, this
significantly limits the Johnson City School District's ability to
prepare for the variable expenses of the self-insured plan.

This bill would allow the school district to create an insurance reserve
and avoid fiscal hardship due to the variability of these types of claim
and lower their overall budgetary expenses.

 
LEGISLATIVE. HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATION:

None to the State

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S8513 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8513
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  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 permitting the
   Johnson City school district to create an insurance reserve fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
 al  municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 486, 515 and 525 of
 the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) The governing board of any municipal corporation may  establish  a
 reserve  fund  to  be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve fund. Upon the
 creation of the fund, the municipality may make  expenditures  from  the
 fund  for  any  loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal
 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
 except those kinds of risks for which insurance is  authorized  pursuant
 to  paragraph  one,  two,  three, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen,
 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
 hundred thirteen of the insurance  law,  or  for  payments  in  lieu  of
 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
 that  no  municipality  shall make an expenditure from such fund for any
 loss, claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation  has
 established  a  reserve fund under any other provision of law; provided,
 further that the Scarsdale union free school  district,  the  Mamaroneck
 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
 the  Vernon  Verona  Sherrill  central  school district, the Ithaca city
 school  district,  the  Kenmore-Town  of  Tonawanda  union  free  school
 district,  the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island central
 school district, the Tonawanda city school district, the  enlarged  city
 school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, the
 Owego  Apalachin  central  school  district,  the  Maine-Endwell central
 school district, the Binghamton city school district, the Candor central
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13727-01-5

 S. 8513                             2
 
 school district, the Cleveland Hill  union  free  school  district,  the
 Depew  union free school district, the Iroquois central school district,
 the Liverpool central school district, the Auburn enlarged  city  school
 district,  the  Carmel  central  school  district,  the Clarence central
 school district, the Fulton city school district,  [and]  the  Canastota
 central school district, AND THE JOHNSON CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT may estab-
 lish insurance reserve funds in compliance with this section and article
 seventy-four  of  the  education  law and such school districts may make
 expenditures in compliance with this section and article seventy-four of
 the education law from such reserve fund for any loss, claim, action  or
 judgment  for  which  the school districts are authorized or required to
 purchase or maintain insurance for the kinds of risks for  which  insur-
 ance  is  authorized  pursuant  to  paragraph three of subsection (a) of
 section one thousand one hundred thirteen of the insurance law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9183
Law Section:: General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §6-n, Gen Muni L

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the Johnson City central school district to create an insurance reserve fund.

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S8513A

SPONSOR: WEBB
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
Johnson City central school district to create an insurance reserve fund

 
PURPOSE OF THE BILL:

This bill allows the Johnson City Central School District to establish
an insurance reserve fund for the purpose of making payments related to
health-related claims.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Amends section 6-n of the General Municipal Law to add the
Johnson City Central School District to the list of school districts
within the state authorized to establish an insurance reserve fund.

Section 2. Establishes the effective date

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In an effort to control the rising costs associated with insurance
premiums, many school districts are transitioning to a self-insured
health insurance model to provide coverage for their faculty and staff.
The Johnson City Central School District has elected to provide coverage
through such a plan effective January 1, 2026.

Although the overall cost associated with a self-insured plan is lower
than a traditional health plan, there are greater cost fluctuations
resulting from the unpredictability of resulting health claims. With
school districts being prohibited from retaining more than four percent
of their budget in an unappropriated fund balance or reserve fund, this
significantly limits the Johnson City School District's ability to
prepare for the variable expenses of the self-insured plan.

This bill would allow the school district to create an insurance reserve
and avoid fiscal hardship due to the variability of these types of
claims and lower, their overall budgetary expenses.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATION:

None to the State

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8513--A
     Cal. No. 900
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules  --  recommitted  to
   the  Committee  on  Local Government in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
   sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said  committee,  ordered  to  first
   report,  amended  on  first  report,  ordered  to  a second report and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of second report
 
 AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to permitting the
   Johnson City central school district to create  an  insurance  reserve
   fund
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 6-n of the gener-
 al municipal law, as separately amended by chapters 486, 515 and 525  of
 the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   (a)  The  governing board of any municipal corporation may establish a
 reserve fund to be  known  as  the  insurance  reserve  fund.  Upon  the
 creation  of  the  fund, the municipality may make expenditures from the
 fund for any loss, claim, action or judgment  for  which  the  municipal
 corporation is authorized or required to purchase or maintain insurance,
 except  those  kinds of risks for which insurance is authorized pursuant
 to paragraph one, two, three,  fifteen,  sixteen,  seventeen,  eighteen,
 twenty-two or twenty-three of subsection (a) of section one thousand one
 hundred  thirteen  of  the  insurance  law,  or  for payments in lieu of
 contributions under article eighteen of the labor law; provided however,
 that no municipality shall make an expenditure from such  fund  for  any
 loss,  claim, action or judgment for which the municipal corporation has
 established a reserve fund under any other provision of  law;  provided,
 further  that  the  Scarsdale union free school district, the Mamaroneck
 union free school district, the Minisink Valley central school district,
 the Vernon Verona Sherrill central  school  district,  the  Ithaca  city
 school  district,  the  Kenmore-Town  of  Tonawanda  union  free  school
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD13727-03-6
 S. 8513--A                          2
 
 district, the Bedford central school district, the Grand Island  central
 school  district,  the Tonawanda city school district, the enlarged city
 school district of Middletown, the Frontier central school district, the
 Owego  Apalachin  central  school  district,  the  Maine-Endwell central
 school district, the Binghamton city school district, the Candor central
 school district, the Cleveland Hill  union  free  school  district,  the
 Depew  union free school district, the Iroquois central school district,
 the Liverpool central school district, the Auburn enlarged  city  school
 district,  the  Carmel  central  school  district,  the Clarence central
 school district, the Fulton city school district,  [and]  the  Canastota
 central  school  district,  AND THE JOHNSON CITY CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT
 may establish insurance reserve funds in compliance  with  this  section
 and  article seventy-four of the education law and such school districts
 may make expenditures in compliance with this section and article seven-
 ty-four of the education law from such reserve fund for any loss, claim,
 action or judgment for which the  school  districts  are  authorized  or
 required  to  purchase  or maintain insurance for the kinds of risks for
 which insurance is authorized pursuant to paragraph three of  subsection
 (a) of section one thousand one hundred thirteen of the insurance law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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May 5, 2026 - Local Government Committee Vote

Local Government Committee Vote: May 5, 2026

Bill Amendments

2025-S8513 - Details

2025-S8513 - Summary

2025-S8513 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8513 - Bill Text download pdf

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Bill Amendments

2025-S8513 - Details

2025-S8513 - Summary

2025-S8513 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8513 - Bill Text download pdf

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S8513A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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