Bill Text: NY S09080 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits medical malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against an abortion or reproductive health care provider who performs an abortion or provides reproductive health care that is legal in the state of New York on someone who is from out of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-06-13 - SIGNED CHAP.221 [S09080 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S09080-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9080--A

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 9, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sens. HINCHEY, CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to  the  Committee  on  Insurance  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  medical
          malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against
          a  reproductive  health  care provider who provides legal reproductive
          health care

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

     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3436-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3436-a. Adverse action against legal reproductive health care. Poli-
     4  cies issued by the association, as defined in article fifty-five of this
     5  chapter,  shall  prohibit  an insurer of the association from taking any
     6  adverse action against an abortion or reproductive health care  provider
     7  solely  on  the  basis  that  the  abortion  or reproductive health care
     8  provider performs an abortion or provides reproductive health care  that
     9  is  legal  in  the  state  of New York on someone who is from out of the
    10  state. Such policy  shall  include  medical  professionals  who  legally
    11  prescribe abortion medication to out-of-state patients by means of tele-
    12  health.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15073-02-2