Bill Text: NY A01682 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to gender indication on insurance claim forms; provides policies shall not exclude coverage if gender indication is different from sex assigned at birth or gender otherwise recorded.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - reported referred to rules [A01682 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1682

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. WOERNER, SIMON, DICKENS, THIELE, CRUZ, GUNTHER,
          SEAWRIGHT, GLICK, REYES -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  SAYEGH  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, in relation to gender indication on
          claim forms

          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 39 to read as follows:
     3    (39) Every policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state  that
     4  provides  coverage  for  hospital,  surgical  or  medical care shall not
     5  exclude coverage for  screening,  diagnosis  and  treatment  of  medical
     6  conditions,  or  services  otherwise covered by the policy solely on the
     7  basis of the gender indicated on a claim form, or that the gender  indi-
     8  cated  on  a  claim form is different from the insured's sex assigned at
     9  birth or gender otherwise recorded, or that the insured is  not  of  the
    10  gender to whom a service is typically or exclusively provided.
    11    § 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
    12  adding a new paragraph 22 to read as follows:
    13    (22)  Every policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state that
    14  provides coverage for hospital,  surgical  or  medical  care  shall  not
    15  exclude  coverage  for  screening,  diagnosis  and  treatment of medical
    16  conditions, or services otherwise covered by the policy  solely  on  the
    17  basis  of the gender indicated on a claim form, or that the gender indi-
    18  cated on a claim form is different from the insured's  sex  assigned  at
    19  birth  or  gender  otherwise recorded, or that the insured is not of the
    20  gender to whom a service is typically or exclusively provided.
    21    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    22  subsection (uu) to read as follows:
    23    (uu)  Every contract issued by a corporation subject to the provisions
    24  of this article that provides coverage for hospital, surgical or medical

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  care shall not exclude coverage for screening, diagnosis  and  treatment
     2  of  medical  conditions,  or  services otherwise covered by the contract
     3  solely on the basis of the gender indicated on a claim form, or that the
     4  gender  indicated  on  a  claim form is different from the insured's sex
     5  assigned at birth or gender otherwise recorded, or that the  insured  is
     6  not  of  the  gender  to  whom  a  service  is  typically or exclusively
     7  provided.
     8    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
     9  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law and shall apply to
    10  policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on
    11  and after such date.