File #: Int 0948-2001    Version: * Name: Health insurance coverage for persons retired from city employment.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Civil Service and Labor
On agenda: 6/28/2001
Enactment date: 12/27/2001 Law number: 2001/076
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to health insurance coverage for persons retired from city employment.
Sponsors: Lucy Cruz, Michael C. Nelson, Helen M. Marshall, (by request of the Mayor), Wendell Foster, Morton Povman, Lawrence A. Warden, Priscilla A. Wooten, Martin J. Golden
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 12/12/01, 2. Hearing Transcript 12/12/01, 3. Hearing Transcript 12/19/01, 4. Fiscal Impact Statement, 5. Local Law
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12/28/2001*Lucy Cruz City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/27/2001*Lucy Cruz Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/27/2001*Lucy Cruz Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/19/2001*Lucy Cruz City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/19/2001*Lucy Cruz City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/19/2001*Lucy Cruz Committee on Civil Service and Labor Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/19/2001*Lucy Cruz Committee on Civil Service and Labor Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2001*Lucy Cruz Committee on Civil Service and Labor Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/12/2001*Lucy Cruz Committee on Civil Service and Labor Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2001*Lucy Cruz Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2001*Lucy Cruz City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/28/2001*Lucy Cruz City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 948
 
By Council Members Cruz, Nelson and Marshall (by request of the Mayor); also Council Members Foster, Povman, Warden, Wooten and Golden.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to health insurance coverage for persons retired from city employment.  
 
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Paragraph ii of subdivision a of section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 78 for the year 1995, is amended to read as follows:
      ii.      "City retiree."  A person who: (1) is receiving a retirement allowance, pension or other retirement benefit from a retirement or pension system either maintained by the city or to which the city has made contributions on behalf of such person pursuant to subdivision (g) of section 80-a of the retirement and social security law; and (2) immediately prior to such person's retirement as a member of such system, was a city employee, or was an employee of the board of education employed under terms prescribing a work week regularly consisting of twenty or more hours during the fiscal year; and (3) had at the time of retirement, at least five years of credited service as a member of such retirement or pension system, except that (A) such requirement of credited service shall not apply in cases of retirement for accident disability, and (B) the requirement of credited service for vested retirement and service retirement shall be at least ten years for a person who was not an employee of the city or the board of education on or before the effective date of the local law that added this clause.
      ยง2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.