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                                         3023
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 7, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens. HUNTLEY, ADAMS, DIAZ, PARKER, SAMPSON, STAVISKY --
         read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
         the Committee on Insurance
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law, in relation to health insurance
         coverage for services by nutritionists
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Subparagraphs (J) and (K) of paragraph 1 of subsection (b)
    2  of section 4301 of the insurance law, as relettered by  chapter  456  of
    3  the  laws  of  1993,  are amended and a new subparagraph (L) is added to
    4  read as follows:
    5    (J) necessary appliances, drugs, medicines and supplies, [and]
    6    (K) bio-analytical or clinical  laboratory  examinations  and  reports
    7  thereof reported to a physician, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, podia-
    8  trist, chiropractor or physical therapist made by any privately operated
    9  bioanalytical or clinical laboratory[.], AND
   10    (L) NUTRITIONAL CARE PROVIDED THROUGH LICENSED NUTRITIONISTS.
   11    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   12  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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