New York Senate Bill S08459 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8459  IN SENATE January 31, 2024 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 and the legislative law, in relation to certain benefits provided pursuant to collective bargain- ing agreements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 167 of the civil service law, as 2 amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 491 of the laws of 2011, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 8. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, where and to the 5 extent that an agreement between the state and an employee organization 6 entered into pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter so provides, 7 the state cost of premium or subscription charges for eligible employees 8 covered by such agreement may be modified pursuant to the terms of such 9 agreement. The president, with the approval of the director of the budg- 10 et, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem- 11 bly, may extend the modified state cost of premium or subscription 12 charges for employees or retirees not subject to an agreement referenced 13 above and shall promulgate the necessary rules or regulations to imple- 14 ment this provision. 15 § 2. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 49 to read 16 as follows: 17 § 49. Legislation implementing collective bargaining agreements. 18 Legislation which enacts or amends any provision of law for the purpose 19 of implementing an agreement between the state and an employee organiza- 20 tion entered into pursuant to article fourteen of the civil service law 21 shall be limited to the provisions necessary to implement such agree- 22 ment. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all 24 agreements entered into on and after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10400-01-3