Bill Text: NY A08135 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "comprehensive contraception coverage act" to provide insurance coverage for FDA-approved contraceptive drugs, devices and products.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 46-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-01-25 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [A08135 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08135-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8135--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      June 9, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CAHILL,  SEAWRIGHT, ROSENTHAL, GALEF, GLICK,
          JAFFEE,  KAMINSKY,  RUSSELL,  SIMOTAS,  SOLAGES,  GOTTFRIED,   LAVINE,
          BARRON,  BLAKE,  BARRETT, MAGNARELLI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          ARROYO, BRAUNSTEIN, BRONSON, CLARK, COOK, DUPREY, FAHY, FARRELL, HOOP-
          ER, LIFTON, LUPARDO, MAYER, McLAUGHLIN, MOSLEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, ROZIC,
          SCHIMEL, SIMON, THIELE, TITUS -- (at request of the Department of Law)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
          2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
          tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
          said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, the social services law, the educa-
          tion law and the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  health
          insurance  policies to include coverage of all FDA-approved contracep-
          tive drugs, devices, and products, as well as voluntary  sterilization
          procedures, contraceptive education and counseling, and related follow
          up  services  and  prohibiting a health insurance policy from imposing
          any cost-sharing requirements or other  restrictions  or  delays  with
          respect to this coverage
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "comprehen-
     2  sive contraception coverage act".
     3    § 2. Paragraph 16 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of  the  insurance
     4  law,  as added by chapter 554 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    (16) (A) Every group or blanket policy [which  provides  coverage  for
     7  prescription  drugs shall include coverage for the cost of contraceptive
     8  drugs or devices approved by the federal food and drug administration or
     9  generic equivalents approved as substitutes by such food and drug admin-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10923-11-6