S3150-2013 Actions

• Jan 30, 2013: REFERRED TO CITIES

S3150-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3150

TITLE  OF BILL:   An act to amend the administrative code of the city of
New York, in relation to health insurance coverage for surviving  domes-
tic partners of members of the police department and the fire department
who are enrolled in a health insurance plan

PURPOSE:   To allow the spouses of deceased retired New York city police
officers to continue their health insurance coverage.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:   This bill  would  provide  that  the  surviving
spouse  or eligible domestic partner of a retired member of the New York
city police Department will be permitted to continue to  be  covered  by
health  insurance.  This  bill  would  include the surviving spouse of a
police officer who retired from the New York city  Housing  and  Transit
Authorities prior to the merger of those police departments with the New
York City police Department.

EFFECTS:   Eligibility for health insurance ceases upon the death of the
retiree and the surviving spouse or eligible  domestic  partner  is  not
entitled  to  further  coverage.  This bill provides for that additional
coverage.

JUSTIFICATION:  The loss of medical insurance to retired individuals  is
one  of  the most devastating occurrences, leaving those people in some-
times desperate straits. This  bill  allows  the  surviving  spouses  of
deceased New York City police officers to retain such coverage.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  This act shall take effect immediately.

S3150-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3150
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 January 30, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 

AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
 relation  to health insurance coverage for surviving domestic partners
 of members of the police department and the fire  department  who  are
 enrolled in a health insurance plan
 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section 1.  Subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of paragraph 2 of subdivision
 b of section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New  York,
 as  amended  by  chapter 430 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as
 follows:

 (ii) Where a retired  member  of  the  fire  department  dies  and  is
 enrolled  in  a  health insurance plan, the surviving spouse OR ELIGIBLE
 DOMESTIC PARTNER shall be afforded the right to  such  health  insurance
 coverage  and  health  insurance  coverage  which  is  predicated on the
 insured's enrollment in the hospital and medical program  for  the  aged
 and  disabled  under the social security act as is provided for retirees
 and their dependents as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph,
 provided such surviving spouse OR ELIGIBLE  DOMESTIC  PARTNER  pays  one
 hundred  two  percent  of  the  group  rate  for such coverage, with two
 percent intended to cover administrative costs incurred,  provided  such
 spouse  OR PARTNER elects such health insurance coverage within one year
 of the death of his or her spouse OR PARTNER.    For  purposes  of  this
 subparagraph,  "retired  member  of  the  fire department" shall include
 persons who, immediately prior to retirement, were employed by the  fire
 department  of the city of New York in a title whose duties are those of
 an emergency medical technician or advanced emergency medical technician
 (as those terms are defined in section three thousand one of the  public
 health  law), or whose duties required the direct supervision of employ
 ees whose duties  are  those  of  an  emergency  medical  technician  or
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08444-01-3
 
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 advanced  emergency  medical  technician  (as those terms are defined in
 section three thousand one of the public health law).
 (iii)  Where  a  retired  member  of  the police department, including
 premerger retirees who were police officers employed  by  the  New  York
 city  housing authority or the New York city transit authority, dies and
 is enrolled in a health insurance plan, the surviving spouse OR ELIGIBLE
 DOMESTIC PARTNER shall be afforded the right to  such  health  insurance
 coverage  and  health  insurance  coverage  which  is  predicated on the
 insured's enrollment in the hospital and medical program  for  the  aged
 and  disabled  under the social security act as is provided for retirees
 and their dependents as set forth in subparagraph (i) of this paragraph,
 provided such surviving spouse OR ELIGIBLE  DOMESTIC  PARTNER  pays  one
 hundred  two  percent  of  the  group  rate  for such coverage, with two
 percent intended to cover administrative costs incurred,  provided  such
 spouse  OR PARTNER elects such health insurance coverage within one year
 of the death of his or her spouse OR PARTNER.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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