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

 165. Termination   of  active  employment.  1.  The  health  benefit
  coverage of any employee and his or her dependents, if any, shall  cease
  upon  the  discontinuance  of  his  or her term of office or employment,
  subject to regulations which may be  prescribed  by  the  president  for
  extension  of  coverage  and  for  conversion  to an individual contract
  providing for such of the benefits provided under this article as may be
  provided under such individual contracts, under terms  approved  by  the
  president,  the  total  cost  of  any  such  contract to be borne by the
  employee.
2. In the event of death of an employee having coverage at the time of
  death for himself or herself and his or her dependents,  and  where  the
  circumstances of death are such that beneficiaries or dependents of such
  deceased employee are entitled to an accidental death benefit payable by
  a retirement system or pension plan administered by the state or a civil
  division  thereof  on  account  of  death  resulting  from  an  accident
  sustained in the performance of his or her duties or to  death  benefits
  provided for under the workers' compensation law, the unremarried spouse
  of  such employee covered at the time of his or her death and his or her
  covered dependents, for so long  as  they  would  otherwise  qualify  as
  dependents eligible for coverage under the regulations of the president,
  shall  be  eligible  to  continue full coverage under the health benefit
  plan upon payment at intervals determined by the president of  the  full
  cost  of  such coverage; provided, however, that the state shall pay and
  any participating employer may elect  to  pay  the  full  cost  of  such
  coverage,  except  that  in  the  case  of those enrolled in an optional
  benefit plan, the employer shall  contribute  not  more  than  the  same
  dollar  amount  which  would  be  paid  if  such  unremarried spouse and
  dependents were enrolled in the basic statewide health benefit plan. The
  president shall adopt such regulations as may be required to  carry  out
  the  provisions of this subdivision which shall include, but need not be
  limited to, provisions for filing application  for  continued  coverage,
  including  reasonable time limits therefor, and provisions for continued
  coverage  of  spouse  and  dependents  pending   determination   of   an
  application  for  accidental  death benefits from a retirement system or
  pension plan administered by the state or a civil  division  thereof  or
  pending  determination  of a claim for death benefits under the workers'
  compensation law.