N.Y. Civil Service Law § 159: Group insurance or mass merchandising policies or programs

§ 159. Group insurance or mass merchandising policies or

programs. 1. The president, subject to the approval of the director of

employee relations and the director of the budget, is hereby empowered

to establish regulations relating to, and to enter into and administer

contracts or agreements providing for group insurance or mass

merchandising policies or programs for state employees in the executive

branch precluded from collective bargaining by subdivision five or

subdivision seven of section two hundred one of this chapter.

2. Any such policy or program shall be subject to the following

provisions:

a. The benefits provided thereby shall be available to all state

officers and employees in the executive branch whose positions are

designated managerial or confidential pursuant to article fourteen of

this chapter and all state officers and employees excluded from

representation rights under this chapter pursuant to rules and

regulations of the public employment relations board, subject to

reasonable underwriting restrictions of the selected insurers;

b. The benefits provided thereby may be made available to state

officers and employees in the division of military and naval affairs in

the executive department; and

c. Unless any group insurance or mass merchandising policy or program

offered pursuant to this section is funded by payroll deductions in

accordance with subdivision three of section two hundred one of the

state finance law, such policy or program shall be funded by specific

appropriation of monies of the state, provided, however, both payroll

deductions and state appropriations may be utilized to fund any such

policy or program.

3. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general or special law, no

state monies shall be available for group insurance or mass

merchandising policies or programs established by the president until a

certificate of allocation and a schedule of amounts to be available

therefor shall have been issued by the director of the budget, and a

copy of such certificate filed with the comptroller, the chairman of the

assembly ways and means committee and the chairman of the senate finance

committee.

4. Monies appropriated and allocated for the purposes set forth

herein, shall be paid out on the audit and warrant of the comptroller on

vouchers certified or approved by the president.