Bill Text: NY A08666 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires providers of insurance policies to maintain a database, available to clients of such insurance providers, of doctors, physicians and health care providers offering foreign language services.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to insurance [A08666 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08666-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8666
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   October 14, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to maintaining a database
         of  certain  foreign  language  services as required by federal health
         care reform laws
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  3102 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
    2  new subsection (g) to read as follows:
    3    (G) FOREIGN LANGUAGE SERVICES DATABASE REQUIREMENT.   THE PROVIDER  OF
    4  ANY INSURANCE POLICY REQUIRED UNDER THE UNITED STATES PATIENT PROTECTION
    5  AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT (PUB. L. NO.  111-148, 124 STAT. 119 (2010)) AND
    6  THE  UNITED  STATES HEALTH CARE AND EDUCATION RECONCILIATION ACT OF 2010
    7  (PUB. L. NO. 111-152, 124 STAT. 1029 (2010)) TO PROVIDE FOREIGN LANGUAGE
    8  SERVICES SHALL MAINTAIN A DATABASE, AVAILABLE TO EVERY CUSTOMER,  CLIENT
    9  OR  INSURED  INDIVIDUAL  UNDER  SUCH  PROVIDER'S POLICIES. SUCH DATABASE
   10  SHALL CONTAIN THE NAME, LOCATION,  SPECIALTY  AND  LANGUAGES  SPOKEN  BY
   11  DOCTORS,  PHYSICIANS  AND  OTHER  HEALTH  CARE PROVIDERS COVERED BY SUCH
   12  INSURANCE PROVIDER'S POLICIES.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
   14  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
   15  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
   16  tation  of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or
   17  before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13510-02-1