Senate Bill S2690

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides notice of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees, and their families

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-S2690 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §92-a, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3687
2015-2016: S2448
2017-2018: S4324, S8118
2019-2020: S5930
2021-2022: S7074

2023-S2690 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides notice of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees, and their families.

2023-S2690 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2690 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2690
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- 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  providing
   notice  of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees,
   and their families

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 92-a of the general municipal law,
 as  amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984 and as further amended by
 section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended  and
 a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
   2.  [A]  CONSISTENT  WITH  THE PROVISIONS OF SUBDIVISION TWO-A OF THIS
 SECTION, A public corporation may contract with a non-profit  membership
 corporation,  organized  under  article forty-three of the insurance law
 and approved by the superintendent of financial services and  the  state
 board  of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to do
 business in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and  surgi-
 cal  services  and  hospital  service  as defined in such article forty-
 three, or medical and surgical and hospital  insurance  to  persons  who
 contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance compa-
 ny,  or  who  subscribe to a plan or plans, as hereinafter provided. Any
 such contract entered into by a  public  corporation  shall  permit  any
 officer  or  employee  or group of officers or employees of an agency or
 department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a  plan
 or  plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for,
 or medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such  officers
 or  employees  and  their  families. Any such contract entered into by a
 public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and
 subject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements  as
 may  be  fixed  by  such  board or body, permit any retired officers and
 employees or group of retired officers and employees  of  an  agency  or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07354-01-3
              

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