Bill Text: NY A00707 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring medical insurance carriers to provide certain coverage for service animals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to insurance [A00707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00707-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           707
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law,  in  relation  to  requiring  medical
          insurance carriers to provide certain coverage for service animals
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216  of  the  insurance  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph 35 to read as follows:
     3    (35)  Every  policy  which provides medical, major medical, or similar
     4  comprehensive-type coverage must provide coverage for  the  acquisition,
     5  training,  certification  and  veterinary  care  of a service animal, as
     6  defined in subdivision one of section 242.00 of the penal law, when such
     7  animal is deemed medically necessary by a licensed physician.
     8    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
     9  adding a new paragraph 21 to read as follows:
    10    (21) Every policy which provides medical, major  medical,  or  similar
    11  comprehensive-type  coverage  must provide coverage for the acquisition,
    12  training, certification and veterinary care  of  a  service  animal,  as
    13  defined in subdivision one of section 242.00 of the penal law, when such
    14  animal is deemed medically necessary by a licensed physician.
    15    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    16  subsection (ss) to read as follows:
    17    (ss) Every contract issued by a hospital  services  corporation  or  a
    18  health  services  corporation  which provides medical, major medical, or
    19  similar comprehensive-type coverage must provide coverage for the acqui-
    20  sition, training, certification and veterinary care of a service animal,
    21  as defined in subdivision one of section 242.00 of the penal  law,  when
    22  such animal is deemed medically necessary by a licensed physician.
    23    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    24  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04297-01-9