S 1088: Requires health insurance for state officers and employees who receive health insurance benefits from the state to take effect immediately upon employment.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1088 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 8, 2025 ___________ 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. LBD00365-01-5