Bill Text: NY A00398 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to access to recorded personal medical information by individuals; allows individuals access to their recorded personal medical records and limits any insurance institution, agent or insurance-support organization from charging more than one dollar per page to cover the costs incurred in providing a copy of such information to the individual.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to insurance [A00398 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00398-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           398
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. CAHILL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
          PAULIN, WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  access  to  recorded
          personal medical information
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 323 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 323. Access to personal medical information. If an individual, after
     4  proper identification, submits a written request to an insurance  insti-
     5  tution,  agent, or insurance-support organization for access to recorded
     6  personal medical information about the individual which  information  is
     7  reasonably described by the individual, the insurance institution, agent
     8  or  insurance-support  organization  may charge a reasonable fee, not to
     9  exceed one dollar per page, to be paid by the person making such request
    10  to cover the costs incurred in providing a copy of the recorded personal
    11  medical information to such individual.
    12    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    13  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01932-01-9