Bill Text: NY S01088 | 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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS [S01088 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01088-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1088

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  RAMOS, HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Civil Service and
          Pensions

        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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