Requires health insurance plans to provide coverage for continuous blood glucose monitors for all children; requires coverage for glucose monitoring devices for all sugar disorders.
Provides a heart disease presumption for members employed by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority as a bridge and tunnel officer, sergeant or lieutenant in a non-managerial position.
Provides a presumption for accidental disability benefits for certain deputy sheriff members in the sheriff's department of a city with a population of one million or more who in performance of their duties contract human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), tuberculosis or hepatitis.
Relates to veterans' preferences with respect to civil service promotions; removes requirement of service during a time of war for additional points on civil service examinations for veterans.
Maddy summaryThis bill establishes a 7.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for specific human services programs effective April 1, 2025, through March 31, 2026. It directly affects providers of mental health, developmental disability, and addiction services (including clinics, residential programs, and outpatient care) by requiring them to use the COLA funds to provide at least a 2.6% targeted salary increase for eligible staff. The COLA applies to programs funded or certified by the Office of Mental Health, Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, and Office of Addiction Services and Supports. This adjustment is inclusive of other inflation factors for the specified period, excluding federal pandemic relief programs.
Maddy summaryBill A 8574 amends the retirement and social security law concerning how overtime compensation is included in the calculation of a public employee's "final average salary." This bill increases the maximum amount of overtime compensation that can be counted towards this calculation. Specifically, it raises the exclusion threshold from 15% to 30% of a member's annual wages not classified as overtime. This change directly affects public employees whose retirement benefits are based on their final average salary, allowing a higher portion of their overtime earnings to be included in that calculation.
Requires the same benefits and services for post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers and correction officers as are afforded police and firefighters.
Limits the number of consecutive hours worked by certain employees of cities of one million or more; provides that employees of cities of one million or more who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement shall not work more than 17 consecutive hours in a work day.
Relates to protecting retiree health insurance benefits; provides that the health insurance benefits provided to retired officers, employees, and their dependents by the state and its political subdivisions shall not be diminished or impaired below the actuarial value of the benefits provided as of December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-one.
Authorizes a thirty year retirement benefit for certain members in Nassau county; provides a retirement allowance equal to 60 percent of a member's final average salary.
