Bill Text: NY A07737 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes notice requirements for conforming changes to discontinuance notices to not less than ninety days prior written notice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-19 - substituted by s5723 [A07737 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07737-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7737
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 11, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance
        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to conforming changes to
          discontinuance notices
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Item (i) of subparagraph (C) of paragraph 2 of subsection
     2  (c) of section 4304 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter  388  of
     3  the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  Discontinuance  of  a  class of contract upon not less than [five
     5  months'] ninety days' prior written notice. In exercising the option  to
     6  discontinue  coverage  pursuant  to  this item, the corporation must act
     7  uniformly without regard to any health status-related factor of enrolled
     8  individuals or individuals who may become eligible for such coverage and
     9  must offer to subscribers or group remitting agents, as may be appropri-
    10  ate, the option to purchase all other individual health insurance cover-
    11  age currently being offered by the corporation  to  applicants  in  that
    12  market.  Provided,  however,  the  superintendent  may, after giving due
    13  consideration to the public interest, approve a request made by a corpo-
    14  ration for the corporation to satisfy  the  requirements  of  this  item
    15  through  the  offering of contracts at each level of coverage as defined
    16  in section 1302(d) of the affordable care act, 42 U.S.C. § 18022(d) that
    17  contains the benefits described in paragraph one of  subsection  (b)  of
    18  section  four  thousand  three  hundred  twenty-eight of this chapter by
    19  another corporation, insurer or health maintenance  organization  within
    20  the  corporation's  same  holding  company system, as defined in article
    21  fifteen of this chapter.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11235-01-7