New York Assembly Bill 8123 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on May 5 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to insurance
Pending: Assembly Insurance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

To prohibit any group or blanket health insurance policy from excluding any group member or member of that individual's family from coverage, based on a predisposing genetic characteristic. A predisposing genetic characteristic is defined as "any inherited gene or chromosome, or alteration thereof, as determined by a genetic test or inferred from information derived from an individual or family member, that is scien- tifically or medically believed to predispose an individual, or offspring of that individual, to a physical or mental disease or disa- bility."

Prohibits any group or blanket health insurance policy to exclude from coverage any group member based on a predisposing genetic characteristic; prohibits any hospital service corporation, health service corporation or medical expense indemnity corporation contract to exclude from coverage any group member based on predisposing genetic characteristics; defines relevant terms.

Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to insurance
2009-05-05		referred to insurance

S4782 (Same As) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08123&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08123&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08123