Bill Text: NY A03665 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Exempts private air ambulance services from insurance licensing and other requirements if the private ambulance service meets certain enumerated qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to insurance [A03665 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03665-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3665

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance

        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to private air ambulance
          service

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  1108 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
     2  new subsection (o) to read as follows:
     3    (o)  A  private  air  ambulance  service  that   solicits   membership
     4  subscriptions, accepts membership applications, charges membership fees,
     5  and  provides  air ambulance services to subscription members and desig-
     6  nated members of their household is not an insurer if  the  private  air
     7  ambulance service:
     8    (1)  has  a  valid  operating  certificate issued by the department of
     9  health;
    10    (2) has non-profit status;
    11    (3) has been in operation in New York for at least two years;
    12    (4) provides in the membership materials a statement  providing  clear
    13  disclosure  to  applicants  and  members  that this is not insurance and
    14  membership cannot  be  considered  secondary  insurance  coverage  or  a
    15  supplement to any insurance coverage;
    16    (5) product is only offered by providers of the service; and
    17    (6)  has submitted evidence of its compliance with this section to the
    18  superintendent pursuant to rules  and  regulations  promulgated  by  the
    19  department.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03847-01-1