Bill Text: NY S03159 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits unfair discrimination by insurers for individuals that use prescriptions to block the effects of opioids.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2020-10-07 - SIGNED CHAP.228 [S03159 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03159-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3159--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to unfair discrimination by insurers for the use of prescriptions to block the effects of opioids The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 2617 2 to read as follows: 3 § 2617. Unfair discrimination for the use of prescriptions to block 4 the effects of opioids. No insurer or entity authorized to issue the 5 kinds of insurance specified in paragraphs one or two of subsection (a) 6 of section one thousand one hundred thirteen of this chapter shall 7 refuse to issue a life insurance policy or annuity contract or adjust 8 the amount of premiums, or rates, charged for life insurance policies or 9 annuity contracts for any individual solely because such individual has 10 been prescribed medication used to block the effects of opioids, includ- 11 ing, but not limited to, Naloxone and Narcan, unless such action is 12 based on sound actuarial principles or actual or reasonably anticipated 13 experience. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08725-03-9
