Bill Text: NY A10211 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no covered services or benefits under a policy of accident and health insurance shall be altered or modified under a contract for renewal.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-17 - referred to insurance [A10211 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10211-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          10211
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 17, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting health
          insurers from removing covered services  and  benefits  upon  contract
          renewal
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3216 of the insurance law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
     3    (c-1)  No  covered services or benefits under a policy of accident and
     4  health insurance shall be altered  or  modified  under  a  contract  for
     5  renewal.
     6    §  2.  Section  3221  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
     7  subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
     8    (c-1) No covered services or benefits under a policy of  accident  and
     9  health  insurance  shall  be  altered  or  modified under a contract for
    10  renewal.
    11    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    12  subsection (c-1) to read as follows:
    13    (c-1)  No  covered services or benefits under a policy of accident and
    14  health insurance shall be altered  or  modified  under  a  contract  for
    15  renewal.
    16    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts  issued,
    18  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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