Bill Text: NY A02501 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires health insurance for state officers and employees who receive health insurance benefits from the state to take effect immediately upon employment.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-17 - referred to governmental employees [A02501 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A02501-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2501

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. LEVENBERG, SIMONE, SHIMSKY, DINOWITZ, BURDICK,
          SEAWRIGHT, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, LUNSFORD, RAGA, TAPIA, McDONOUGH, ANGELINO,
          DeSTEFANO -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Governmental
          Employees

        AN  ACT  to amend the civil service law, in relation to health insurance
          for  state officers and employees who receive health  insurance  bene-
          fits from the state

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 161 of the civil service law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. The health benefit plan designed by the president, pursuant to this
     4  section, shall take effect immediately upon employment.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
     6  the date on which it shall have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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