New York S 4872: Provides notice of health insurance contracts for retired officers, employees, and their families

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S04872 Summary:

BILL NOS04872 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORFAHY

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Amd §92-a, Gen Muni L

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

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02/13/2025REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

05/20/20251ST REPORT CAL.1150

05/21/20252ND REPORT CAL.

05/22/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/13/2025COMMITTED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT

03/31/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4872

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. FAHY -- 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 92-a of the general municipal law,
 2 as amended by chapter 805 of the laws of 1984 and as further amended by
 3 section 104 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended and
 4 a new subdivision 2-a is added to read as follows:
 5 2. [A] Consistent with the provisions of subdivision two-a of this
 6 section, a public corporation may contract with a non-profit membership
 7 corporation, organized under article forty-three of the insurance law
 8 and approved by the superintendent of financial services and the state
 9 board of social welfare, or with any insurance company authorized to do
 10 business in this state for the purpose of furnishing medical and surgi-
 11 cal services and hospital service as defined in such article forty-
 12 three, or medical and surgical and hospital insurance to persons who
 13 contract with such non-profit membership corporation or insurance compa-
 14 ny, or who subscribe to a plan or plans, as hereinafter provided. Any
 15 such contract entered into by a public corporation shall permit any
 16 officer or employee or group of officers or employees of an agency or
 17 department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to a plan
 18 or plans providing for medical and surgical and hospital insurance for,
 19 or medical and surgical services and hospital service to, such officers
 20 or employees and their families. Any such contract entered into by a
 21 public corporation may, if authorized by the governing board or body and
 22 subject to such conditions, limitations and eligibility requirements as
 23 may be fixed by such board or body, permit any retired officers and
 24 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.
 LBD09483-01-5

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 1 department of the public corporation voluntarily to subscribe to such a
 2 plan or plans to provide such insurance for or service to themselves and
 3 their families. The comptroller or other disbursing officer of the
 4 public corporation, or of any fund out of which officers or employees of
 5 such public corporation are paid, is authorized to deduct from the wages
 6 or salary of such contracting or subscribing officer or employee, with
 7 [his] such officer or employee's prior consent, in writing, the sums
 8 required to be paid by such officer or employee to such non-profit
 9 membership corporation or insurance company. Such public corporation, if
 10 such contract or plan provides that the employer shall contribute a
 11 share of the cost of such medical and surgical services and hospital
 12 service, or medical and surgical and hospital insurance, for its offi-
 13 cers and employees or retired officers and employees, is authorized to
 14 appropriate a sum required to be paid under such contract by the public
 15 corporation as employer. The sum to be paid by it under such contract,
 16 in the discretion of such public corporation, may b