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.