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Senate Bill S3046
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Insurance Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C) Senate District
(R) Senate District
2009-S3046 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A7113
- Current Committee:
- Senate Insurance
- Law Section:
- Insurance Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§3216 & 4304, add §§3216-a & 4304-a, Ins L
2009-S3046 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3046 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to the establishment of a demonstration program to permit the issuance of a short term health insurance policy or subscriber contract to recent college graduates and other children losing coverage as a dependent under a parent's policy; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof PURPOSE : The purpose of the legislation is to provide short term health insurance policies for young adults ages 19-26 who have lost coverage under a parent's policy and are otherwise not eligible for coverage. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section one amends Section 3216 of the Insurance Law to provide an exception to the prohibition against an insurer offering major medical, comprehensive or comparable coverage in the individual market that does not mirror the out-of-network benefits of the standardized direct payment HMO/POS contracts when the coverage is a short-term health insurance policy. Section two adds a new Section 3216-a to the Insurance Law to authorize an insurer to offer a short-term health insurance policy to
2009-S3046 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3046 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 10, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SEWARD, BONACIC, O. JOHNSON, LARKIN, SALAND, VOLKER -- 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 the establishment of a demonstration program to permit the issuance of a short term health insurance policy or subscriber contract to recent college graduates and other children losing coverage as a dependent under a parent's policy; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expi- ration thereof THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subsection (l) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 504 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows: (l) [On and after January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven] EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN-A OF THIS ARTICLE, no insurer shall offer major medical, comprehensive or other comparable individual contracts, other than for purposes of conversion, unless the benefits of such contracts, including deductibles and coinsu- rance, are identical to the out-of-plan benefits of the contracts described in section four thousand three hundred twenty-two of this chapter. Such contracts must include a prescription drug benefit comply- ing with the requirements of that section. S 2. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3216-a to read as follows: S 3216-A. SHORT-TERM HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES. (A) DEFINITIONS. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION: 1. "SHORT-TERM HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY THAT IS ISSUED FOR A DEFINED TERM NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY-FOUR MONTHS. 2. "ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUAL" SHALL MEAN AN UNMARRIED INDIVIDUAL RESIDING IN NEW YORK WHO (I) IS BETWEEN THE AGES OF NINETEEN AND TWENTY-SIX AND EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07499-01-9
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