Senate Bill S4637

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of certain public employee retirees

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Civil Service And Pensions 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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2017-S4637 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Civil Service And Pensions
Law Section:
Retirement
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S5381
2015-2016: S3252
2019-2020: S2284
2021-2022: S5184
2023-2024: S2728

2017-S4637 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits the diminution of health insurance benefits of public employee retirees and their dependents or reducing the employer's contributions for such insurance; defines employers to include the state, municipalities, school districts, and public authorities and commissions.

2017-S4637 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4637 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4637
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and Pensions
 
 AN ACT in relation  to  affecting  the  health  insurance  benefits  and
   contributions of certain retired public employees
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. On and after the effective  date  of  this  act,  a  public
 employer shall be prohibited from diminishing the health insurance bene-
 fits provided to retirees and their dependents or the contributions such
 employer  makes  for  such  health insurance coverage below the level of
 such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such retirees and their
 dependents by such employer as of the effective date of this act.    For
 the purpose of this act, (1) "public employer" shall mean the following:
 (i)  the  state;  (ii)  a  county, city, town or village; (iii) a school
 district, board of cooperative educational services,  vocational  educa-
 tion and extension board or a school district as enumerated in section 1
 of  chapter  566  of the laws of 1967, as amended; (iv) any governmental
 entity operating a college or university; (v) a  public  improvement  or
 special  district  including  police  or  fire  districts; (vi) a public
 authority, commission or public benefit corporation; or (vii) any  other
 public  corporation, agency, instrumentality or unit of government which
 exercises governmental power under the  laws  of  this  state;  and  (2)
 "retiree"  shall  mean  a retiree of the New York state and local police
 and fire retirement system or the New York state  and  local  employees'
 retirement  system  who retires from police service or fire service that
 qualifies under subdivision 11 of section  302  of  the  retirement  and
 social  security  law  or a retiree of the New York city fire department
 pension fund who was represented by the collective  bargaining  unit  of
 Local 854, I.A.F.F.
   §  2.  Nothing  contained  in this act shall supersede or diminish the
 terms of a collective bargaining agreement.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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