Bill Text: NY A06143 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to payments to health care providers for emergency service rendered for injuries incurred as a result of the operation of a motor vehicle while in an intoxicated condition

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - referred to insurance [A06143 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A06143-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6143
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 26, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, CYMBROWITZ, EDDINGTON --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M.    of  A.  ALFANO,  BRADLEY,  BRENNAN,  COOK,
         FARRELL,  GALEF,  GLICK,  McENENY,  PAULIN,  PERRY,  PHEFFER,  REILLY,
         J. RIVERA, ROBINSON, WALKER, WEINSTEIN -- read once  and  referred  to
         the Committee on Insurance
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the insurance law, in relation to payments to health
         care providers for emergency service rendered for injuries incurred as
         a result of the operation of a motor vehicle while in  an  intoxicated
         condition
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 5103  of  the  insurance  law  is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph 2-a to read as follows:
    3    (2-A)   NOTWITHSTANDING  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  PARAGRAPH  TWO  OF  THIS
    4  SUBSECTION, A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER WHO PROVIDES ANY SERVICE DESCRIBED IN
    5  PARAGRAPH ONE OF SUBSECTION (A) OF SECTION FIVE THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED TWO
    6  OF THIS ARTICLE PURSUANT TO SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-B  OF  THE
    7  PUBLIC  HEALTH  LAW OR TO PROVIDE MEDICAL SCREENING AND NECESSARY STABI-
    8  LIZING TREATMENT FOR  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  CONDITIONS,  TO  AN  OTHERWISE
    9  COVERED  PERSON,  SHALL  BE  REIMBURSED REGARDLESS OF THE FACT THAT SUCH
   10  PERSON WAS INJURED AS THE RESULT OF OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE  WHILE  IN
   11  AN INTOXICATED CONDITION.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   13  it  shall  have  become  a  law  and shall apply to all policies issued,
   14  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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