2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 1 - General Provisions › Article 8-B - State University Optional Retirement Program › 396-A - Deductions From Benefits of Certain Retired Members.

§  396-a.  Deductions  from  benefits  of  certain retired members. 1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an electing employee who  is
  retired from the optional retirement system shall have the right, at any
  time  after  such  electing employee's retirement, to execute and file a
  deduction authorization card with the  designated  insurer  or  insurers
  upon  audit  and  warrant  of the comptroller for employees of the state
  university and by the appropriate fiscal officer  for  employees  of  an
  electing   employer   authorizing   the  deduction  from  such  electing
  employee's retirement allowance of membership  dues  and  such  electing
  employee's share of the cost for employee organization-sponsored benefit
  plans  and  the  payment  thereof to a retiree organization of which the
  electing employee 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 electing employee 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  for  employees  of  the  state
  university  and  by  the  appropriate fiscal officer for employees of an
  electing employer shall thereafter deduct from the retirement  allowance
  of such electing employee the amount of membership dues and such amounts
  required  to  be  paid  by  such  electing  employee 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  electing  employee.
  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 elected
  employee 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  for
  employees  of the state university and by the appropriate fiscal officer
  for employees  of  an  electing  employer  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  electing
  employee'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 electing employee  was  then  employed.  Such
  authorization  shall continue in effect until revoked in writing by such
  electing employee. The designated insurer or  insurers  upon  audit  and
  warrant  of the comptroller for employees of the state university and by
  the appropriate fiscal officer for employees  of  an  electing  employer
  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.