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                                  3301

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 26, 2009
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  COOK, GOTTFRIED, SWEENEY, ROBINSON, PEOPLES,
  FIELDS, ZEBROWSKI -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  DIAZ,  GLICK,
  GREENE,  JACOBS,  JOHN,  KOON,  MAISEL,  MAYERSOHN,  McENENY, PHEFFER,
  ROSENTHAL, TOWNS, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
  tee on Insurance

AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation
  to disclosure and access to health insurance plan documents

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph 3 of subsection (b)  of  section  3217-a  of  the
insurance  law,  as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended
to read as follows:
  (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
er contracts AND, UPON THE WRITTEN  REQUEST  OF  AN  INDIVIDUAL  COVERED
UNDER  A  GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,
PROVIDE A COPY OF SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF  THE  RECEIPT  OF
SUCH REQUEST;
  S  2.  Paragraph  3 of subsection (b) of section 4324 of the insurance
law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read  as
follows:
  (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
er  contracts  AND,  UPON  THE  WRITTEN REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL COVERED
UNDER A GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING,
PROVIDE  A  COPY  OF  SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE RECEIPT OF
SUCH REQUEST;
  S 3. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 of  section  4408  of  the  public
health  law,  as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended to
read as follows:
  (c) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
er contracts AND, UPON THE WRITTEN  REQUEST  OF  AN  INDIVIDUAL  COVERED
UNDER  A  GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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PROVIDE A COPY OF SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF  THE  RECEIPT  OF
SUCH REQUEST;
  S  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
have become a law.