Section 161-A. Implementation of negotiated agreements

1. Where, and to
  the extent  that,  an  agreement  between  the  state  and  an  employee
  organization  entered  into pursuant to article fourteen of this chapter
  provides for health insurance benefits, the president, after receipt  of
  written  directions  from  the  director  of  employee  relations, shall
  implement the provisions of such agreement  consistent  with  the  terms
  thereof  and  to  the extent necessary shall adopt regulations providing
  for the benefits to be thereunder  provided.  The  president,  with  the
  approval  of  the  director  of the budget, may extend such benefits, in
  whole or in part, to employees not subject to  the  provisions  of  such
  agreement.
    2. Insofar as the provisions of this section are inconsistent with any
  other  act,  general  or  special,  or  any  rule  or regulation adopted
  thereunder, the provisions of this  section  shall  be  controlling  and
  insofar  as  the  regulations  promulgated  by the president pursuant to
  subdivision one of this  section  are  inconsistent  with  any  rule  or
  regulation, the provisions of such regulations shall be controlling.
    3.  There  is hereby created a council on employee health insurance to
  supervise the administration of changes to  the  health  insurance  plan
  negotiated  in  collective negotiations and to provide continuing policy
  direction to insurance plans administered by the state the provisions of
  any other law to the contrary notwithstanding. The council shall consist
  of the president of the civil service commission, the  director  of  the
  division of the budget, and the director of employee relations.