2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 7 - State and City Colleges and Institutions-Cornell University › Article 125-A - Board of Higher Education Optional Retirement Program › 6257 - Deductions From Benefits of Certain Retired Members.

§  6257.  Deductions  from  benefits  of  certain  retired members. 1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member who is retired from
  the board of higher education optional retirement program shall have the
  right, at any time after such member's retirement, to execute and file a
  deduction authorization card with the  designated  insurer  or  insurers
  upon audit and warrant of the comptroller authorizing the deduction from
  such  member's retirement allowance of membership dues and such member's
  share of the cost for employee organization-sponsored benefit plans  and
  the  payment  thereof  to  a retiree organization of which the member is
  then a member and which is  then  affiliated  with  either  an  employee
  organization  certified  or  recognized  as  the  collective  bargaining
  representative of all employees in the negotiating  unit  of  which  the
  member  was  a  part  prior to his or her retirement or with an employee
  organization with which such employee organization is  then  affiliated.
  The  designated  insurer  or  insurers  upon  audit  and  warrant of the
  comptroller shall thereafter deduct from  the  retirement  allowance  of
  such  member  the amount of membership dues and such amounts required to
  be   paid   by   such    member    for    such    authorized    employee
  organization-sponsored  benefit  plans,  and  shall  transmit the sum so
  deducted to said retiree organization. Such authorization shall continue
  in effect until revoked in writing by such member. For purposes of  this
  section,  the term "employee organization-sponsored benefit plans" shall
  include any and all insurance plans and/or other benefit plans sponsored
  by such retiree organization whether provided by  (a)  a  not-for-profit
  corporation licensed under article forty-three of the insurance law; (b)
  any  insurance  company  authorized  to do business in this state; (c) a
  health  maintenance  organization  issued  a  certificate  of  authority
  pursuant  to  article  forty-four  of  the  public  health law; or (d) a
  self-insurance arrangement, welfare fund or benefit fund.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member  shall
  have  the right, at any time after his or her retirement, to execute and
  file a deduction authorization  card  with  the  designated  insurer  or
  insurers  upon  audit  and  warrant  of  the comptroller authorizing the
  payment of  voluntary  contributions  to  the  political  committee,  as
  defined  in  subdivision  one  of section 14-100 of the election law, of
  such member's  employee  organization,  provided  such  organization  is
  certified  or  recognized  pursuant  to  article  fourteen  of the civil
  service law as the representative of all employees  in  the  negotiating
  unit  in which such retired member was then employed. Such authorization
  shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by  such  member.  The
  designated insurer or insurers upon audit and warrant of the comptroller
  shall  determine  the  cost  of  administering  deductions for voluntary
  contributions to the political  committee  and  the  cost  incurred  for
  administering  such  contributions  shall  be paid from the funds of the
  political committee.