2015 New York Laws
CVS - Civil Service
Article 11 - (Civil Service) HEALTH BENEFITS FOR STATE AND RETIRED STATE EMPLOYEES
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.