Bill Text: NY A09741 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the state comptroller to conduct an audit of the department of financial services to ensure the agency is meeting its responsibility to evaluate and assess insurer compliance with federal and state mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-03 - referred to governmental operations [A09741 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09741-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9741

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. K. BROWN, CHANG, CURRAN, DeSTEFANO -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  directing  the  state
          comptroller  to  conduct  an  audit  of  the  department  of financial
          services to ensure the agency is meeting its responsibility to  evalu-
          ate and assess insurer compliance with federal and state mental health
          and substance use disorder parity requirements

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new  section  41-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 41-b. Audits of agencies by the comptroller. 1. At least biennially,
     4  the state comptroller shall conduct an audit of the department of finan-
     5  cial services for the purpose of ensuring the agency meets its responsi-
     6  bility  to evaluate and assess insurer compliance with federal and state
     7  mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements pursuant to
     8  article three of the insurance law.
     9    2. (a) Upon completion of such audit pursuant to  subdivision  one  of
    10  this  section, the state comptroller shall publish a report that details
    11  the results of such audit including, but not limited to, a determination
    12  of the department of financial services' accuracy and  effectiveness  in
    13  measuring and evaluating insurer compliance with federal and state pari-
    14  ty  requirements,  determinations  of  compliance with federal and state
    15  parity requirements for each insurer, and thorough explanations describ-
    16  ing the reason, or reasons for making such compliance determinations.
    17    (b) The state comptroller shall provide such report to  the  governor,
    18  the attorney general, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker
    19  of  the assembly, the minority leader of the senate, the minority leader
    20  of the assembly, the chair and the ranking member of the senate  commit-
    21  tee on alcoholism and substance use disorders, the chair and the ranking
    22  member  of  the  assembly  committee  on  alcoholism and drug abuse, the
    23  chairs and the ranking members of the senate and the assembly committees
    24  on mental health, and the chairs and the ranking members of  the  senate
    25  and  the assembly committees on insurance no later than the first day of

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14867-01-4
        A. 9741                             2

     1  July of the year immediately  succeeding  the  effective  date  of  this
     2  section.  Subsequent reports detailing results and determinations of the
     3  state comptroller shall be completed and published at  least  biennially
     4  following  publication  of  the first such report on or before the first
     5  day of July.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.