N.Y. Civil Service Law § 163-a: Supplementary plan

§ 163-a. Supplementary plan. 1. For the purposes of this section, the

term "supplementary plan" shall mean a health benefit plan which

provides an adjustment to the deductible or co-insurance liability or to

the benefits provided by the statewide health benefit plan purchased

pursuant to section one hundred sixty-two of this article.

2. The president may require the insurer of a supplementary plan to

the statewide health benefit plan, provided as a result of a

collectively negotiated agreement pursuant to article fourteen of this

chapter, to make a comparable supplementary plan available to

participating employers as of the implementation date of the state

employees' supplementary plan. The comparable supplementary plan shall

be experience rated as to those participating employers electing it,

with the costs thereof allocated equitably among them.

3. Every participating employer which, on or before July first,

nineteen hundred eighty-five, entered into a collectively negotiated

agreement pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter with employee

organizations representing its employees to provide the statewide health

benefit plan shall provide such comparable supplementary plan on the

date established by the president until the expiration of such

negotiated agreement.