Bill Commons

NY S 4724

in committee

Ensures identical health benefits for public retirees

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 4724 pass?

Not yet. NY S 4724 is in committee as of 2026-01-28 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-01-28): REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

What is NY S 4724 about?

Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.

Who sponsors NY S 4724?

Patricia Fahy is the primary sponsor of NY S 4724, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Ensures that public retirees are not having their skilled nursing care benefits reduced under the state health benefit plan at the time they enroll for medicare.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-01-28 — REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • Patricia Fahyprimary
  • Jessica Scarcella-Spantoncosponsor
  • James Skoufiscosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-12

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

    referral-committee

  2. 2025-04-08

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO CIVIL SERVICE AND PENSIONS

    referral-committee

  4. 2026-01-28

    REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Civil Service And Pensions Vote

    2025-04-08 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Jeremy Cooney: yes
    • Kristen Gonzalez: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • Mario Mattera: yes
    • Kevin S. Parker: yes
    • Jessica Scarcella-Spanton: yes
    • Alexis Weik: yes

  • Civil Service And Pensions Vote

    2026-01-28 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Jeremy Cooney: yes
    • Kristen Gonzalez: yes
    • Robert Jackson: yes
    • Mario Mattera: yes
    • Kevin S. Parker: yes
    • Jessica Scarcella-Spanton: yes
    • Alexis Weik: yes

Related bills

  • Prior session: S 8192not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 4465not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 6091

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S4724?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

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