Bill Text: NY S00647 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting insurance coverage for assisted suicide; disallowing any individual, group, or contract insurance from covering physician-assisted suicide, including but not limited to, aid-in-dying prescription drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S00647 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00647-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           647
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  BOYLE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting  insurance
          coverage for physician assisted suicide
          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 (n) to read as follows:
     3    (n) (1) No policy delivered or issued for delivery in this state shall
     4  provide  coverage  for  physician-assisted  suicide,  including  but not
     5  limited to, coverage for any aid-in-dying prescription drug.
     6    (2) For purposes of this subsection "physician-assisted suicide" shall
     7  mean the voluntary termination of one's own life by administration of  a
     8  lethal  substance  with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician
     9  and "aid-in-dying prescription drug" shall mean a  drug  determined  and
    10  prescribed  by a physician which an individual may choose to self-admin-
    11  ister to bring about his or her death.
    12    § 2. Section 3221 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    13  subsection (t) to read as follows:
    14    (t)  (1)  No  policy of group or blanket accident and health insurance
    15  shall provide coverage for physician-assisted suicide, including but not
    16  limited to, coverage for any aid-in-dying prescription drugs.
    17    (2) For purposes of this subsection "physician-assisted suicide" shall
    18  mean voluntary termination of one's own  life  by  administration  of  a
    19  lethal  substance  with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician
    20  and "aid-in-dying prescription drug" shall mean a  drug  determined  and
    21  prescribed  by a physician which an individual may choose to self-admin-
    22  ister to bring about his or her death.
    23    § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    24  subsection (ss) to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04499-01-9

        S. 647                              2
     1    (ss)  (1)  No  contract  issued  by a medical expense indemnity corpo-
     2  ration, hospital service corporation or health service corporation shall
     3  provide coverage  for  physician-assisted  suicide,  including  but  not
     4  limited to, coverage for any aid-in-dying prescription drugs.
     5    (2) For purposes of this subsection "physician-assisted suicide" shall
     6  mean  voluntary  termination  of  one's  own life by administration of a
     7  lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of  a  physician
     8  and  "aid-in-dying  prescription  drug" shall mean a drug determined and
     9  prescribed by a physician which an individual may choose to  self-admin-
    10  ister to bring about his or her death.
    11    §  4.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
    12  contracts entered into, renewed, modified or amended on  or  after  such
    13  effective date.
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