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introduction/2024/1096.json

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       "Name": "Summary of Int. No. 1096",
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   "Text": "Be it enacted by the Council as follows:\n      \n      \n      Section 1. Declaration of legislative findings and intent. The Council hereby finds and declares as follows: \n      It is the policy of the City of New York and of this Council to preserve traditional Medicare and the choice of a Medicare supplemental plan and not diminish health care benefits. The Council states that it is critical to protect the vested health insurance coverage and the contributions of city retirees against any diminishment in order to ensure full access to health care and to minimize the need for emergency room and Medicaid expenditures. The Council also recognizes that city retirees earned and paid for their benefits and were made promises during their employment, including in Summary Program Descriptions, of what benefits they would be provided during their retirement. The Council further finds that eligibility for retiree health coverage is provided pursuant to the terms of section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York and Summary Program Descriptions.\n      This local law recognizes that the protections of vested retiree health coverage provided in section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York have repeatedly come under attack by different city administrations, leaving city retirees who earned and paid for these benefits to turn to the Council every time for protection.\n      The Council recognizes that city retirees loyally served the City with the promise of specific health care benefits in retirement. It also recognizes that a material change in those health care benefits may prevent city retirees from seeking medical care because of financial hardship. \n      Further, the Council finds that: \n      Many public employers have offered their retirees choices of health insurance plans to supplement their Medicare policies; \n      These offered choices are made in accordance with the Summary Plan Descriptions that public employers provide their employees and retirees;\n      Under federal law, a Summary Plan Description governs the health insurance, health care benefits, and levels of these benefits that employees and retirees receive, and these employees and retirees should be able to rely on this information; \n      Some of these plans for retirees serve as Medicare supplemental plans, also known as \"Medigap\" policies, in that they pay for 20 percent of the cost of a medical appointment or service after Medicare pays for its statutorily required 80 percent. A retiree is then able to see any health care provider throughout the United States (including its possessions and territories), as long as the provider accepts Medicare. More than 95 percent of health care providers throughout the United States accept Medicare. These Medicare supplemental plans or Medigap policies entrust medical decisions to the physician or other health care provider of employees and retirees; \n      However, many public employers have implemented or have proposed implementing new modalities of health insurance for employees and retirees. These proposals include the imposition of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) for employees and Medicare Advantage Plans (MAPs) for retirees; \n      These plans have been found to reduce health care consumers' access to necessary medical care due to protracted pre-authorization procedures and frequently have forced them to stop using their long-time health care providers, if the providers did not choose to become part of these plans; \n      Accordingly, these health care consumers are at increased risk of delaying their care or increasingly relying on urgent care, emergency room use, Medicaid, or all of these. This puts their health at increased risk and results in costlier care. \n      � 2. Section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows: \n      e. (1) The city shall not diminish the health insurance coverage provided to city retirees and their dependents or the contributions the city makes for such health insurance coverage below the level of such benefits or contributions made on behalf of such city retirees and their dependents by the city as of December 31, 2021. \n      (2) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term \"diminish\" means to cause any change in health care offered that could potentially make it harder for city retirees residing anywhere in the United States, including its territories and possessions, to access their health care than before such change was made. These changes include, but are not limited to, increasing the cost of such health care, subjecting city retirees to Medicare Advantage Plans or any managed care plan or any form of privatization of the public health benefit Medicare, requiring them to use health care providers only from pre-designated panels or networks, or requiring them to wait for pre-authorization for medical procedures that are recommended by their health care providers.\n      � 3. This local law takes effect immediately and is retroactive to and deemed to have been in effect as of December 31, 2021. \n\n10/10/2024 2:35 PM\n      2\n      \n      \n      4",
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The Council also recognizes that city retirees earned and paid for their benefits and were made promises during their employment, including in Summary Program Descriptions, of what benefits they would be provided during their retirement. The Council further finds that eligibility for retiree health coverage is provided pursuant to the terms of section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York and Summary Program Descriptions.\\par\nThis local law recognizes that the protections of vested retiree health coverage provided in section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York have repeatedly come under attack by different city administrations, leaving city retirees who earned and paid for these benefits to turn to the Council every time for protection.\\par\nThe Council recognizes that city retirees loyally served the City with the promise of specific health care benefits in retirement. It also recognizes that a material change in those health care benefits may prevent city retirees from seeking medical care because of financial hardship. \\par\nFurther, the Council finds that: \\par\nMany public employers have offered their retirees choices of health insurance plans to supplement their Medicare policies; \\par\nThese offered choices are made in accordance with the Summary Plan Descriptions that public employers provide their employees and retirees;\\par\nUnder federal law, a Summary Plan Description governs the health insurance, health care benefits, and levels of these benefits that employees and retirees receive, and these employees and retirees should be able to rely on this information; \\par\nSome of these plans for retirees serve as Medicare supplemental plans, also known as \\ldblquote Medigap\\rdblquote  policies, in that they pay for 20 percent of the cost of a medical appointment or service after Medicare pays for its statutorily required 80 percent. A retiree is then able to see any health care provider throughout the United States (including its possessions and territories), as long as the provider accepts Medicare. More than 95 percent of health care providers throughout the United States accept Medicare. These Medicare supplemental plans or Medigap policies entrust medical decisions to the physician or other health care provider of employees and retirees; \\par\nHowever, many public employers have implemented or have proposed implementing new modalities of health insurance for employees and retirees. These proposals include the imposition of Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) for employees and Medicare Advantage Plans (MAPs) for retirees; \\par\nThese plans have been found to reduce health care consumers\\rquote  access to necessary medical care due to protracted pre-authorization procedures and frequently have forced them to stop using their long-time health care providers, if the providers did not choose to become part of these plans; \\par\nAccordingly, these health care consumers are at increased risk of delaying their care or increasingly relying on urgent care, emergency room use, Medicaid, or all of these. This puts their health at increased risk and results in costlier care. \\par\n\\'a7 2. Section 12-126 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision e to read as follows: \\par\n\\ul e. 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introduction/2024/1125.json

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       "Slug": "christopher-marte",
       "FullName": "Christopher Marte"
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   "Text": "Be it enacted by the Council as follows:\n      \n      \n      Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 38 to title 21-A to read as follows:\n      CHAPTER 38\n      REPORTING ON SCHOOL LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY ACCESS\n      � 21-1009 Reporting on school librarians and library access. a. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings:\n      Certified school librarian. The term \"certified school librarian\" means a certified school library media specialist as defined in section 90.18 of title 8 of the New York codes, rules and regulations, regarding school library systems, or a successor provision.\n      Non-certified school librarian. The term \"non-certified school librarian\" means a department pedagogue who is not a certified school librarian, but is employed to provide library-related services.  \n      School. The term \"school\" means a school of the city school district of the city of New York.\n      School library. The term \"school library\" means a school library established pursuant to section 91.1 of title 8 of the New York codes, rules and regulations, regarding school libraries, or a successor provision. \n      b. No later than June 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, the chancellor shall submit to the speaker of the council and post on the department's website a report for the current academic year regarding school librarians and school library access. The report shall contain the following information for each school:\n\t1. The number of certified school librarians, disaggregated by full-time and part-time status;\n\t2. The number of non-certified school librarians, disaggregated by full-time and part-time status;\n\t3. The number of students who have weekly scheduled class time with certified school librarians, disaggregated by grade level;\n\t4. The number of students who have weekly scheduled class time with non-certified school librarians, disaggregated by grade level;\n\t5. The average amount of weekly class time students spend with certified school librarians, disaggregated by grade level;\n\t6. The average amount of weekly class time students spend with non-certified school librarians, disaggregated by grade level; \n\t7. The number of school libraries; and\n      8. The hours of operation of each school library.\n      c. The data reported pursuant to subdivision b of this section shall be disaggregated by zip code, community school district, and borough, and shall be aggregated citywide.\n      � 2. This local law takes effect immediately.\n\n\nNJF\nLS #10876/17640\n10/31/24 3:55 PM\n\n\n      2\n      \n      \n      2",
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