Bill Text: NY S00201 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits pregnant women to enroll in the state health insurance exchange at any time without penalty.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-01-22 - SUBSTITUTED BY A2656 [S00201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00201-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           201

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens. CLEARE, ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  permitting  pregnant
          women to enroll in health insurance during a special enrollment period
          without penalty

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (B)  of  paragraph  4  of  subsection  (b)  of
     2  section  4328 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws
     3  of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (B) In addition to the enrollment periods required in subparagraph (A)
     5  of this  paragraph,  an  individual  enrollee  direct  payment  contract
     6  offered  pursuant  to  this  section shall allow for the enrollment of a
     7  pregnant individual. Such individual may enroll  at  any  time  after  a
     8  health  care professional licensed pursuant to title eight of the educa-
     9  tion law and acting within the scope of his or  her  practice  certifies
    10  that  the  individual  is  pregnant.  Such  health  insurance  policy or
    11  contract shall not impose a fee or other penalty for special  enrollment
    12  of  the  pregnant individual.  Upon enrollment, coverage shall be effec-
    13  tive as of the first day of the month in which the health  care  profes-
    14  sional  certifies that the individual is pregnant, unless the individual
    15  elects to have coverage effective on the first day of the month  follow-
    16  ing  the date that the individual received certification of the pregnan-
    17  cy.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    19  ing  the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
    20  policies or contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or  amended  on
    21  or  after  such  effective  date.   Effective immediately, the addition,
    22  amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the
    23  implementation  of  this  act on its effective date are authorized to be
    24  made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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