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Assembly Bill A8162
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
ROSENTHAL L
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly 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
2019-A8162 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A8162 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Directs the department of financial services to study health insurance coverage through the Marketplace, including collecting data on how many people are insured, and studying the feasibility of creating programs, subsidies, and/or tax credits to help expand health care coverage.
2019-A8162 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8162 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y June 4, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to direct the department of financial services to study health insurance coverage through the Marketplace THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. 1. The department of financial services is hereby author- ized and directed to study the feasibility and impact of increasing the subsidy provided to individuals who purchase health care coverage through the Marketplace. For purposes of this section the term "Market- place" shall have the same meaning as defined in section 268-a of the public health law. 2. Such study shall include, but shall not be limited to: (a) collecting data on how many people are currently uninsured in New York state and the reasons for their being uninsured including, but not limited to, those eligible for public assistance programs, those ineli- gible to purchase insurance because of their immigration status, and those who choose to go uninsured because of financial reasons; and (b) the feasibility of creating programs, subsidies, and/or tax cred- its to help expand health insurance coverage in New York state to unin- sured individuals including, but not limited to, the costs and effec- tiveness of instituting such new programs, subsidies, and/or tax credits. Such new programs shall include but shall not be limited to: (i) an individual state-level insurance mandate; (ii) a state supple- mental premium tax credit to supplement the current federal tax credit; and (iii) a state premium tax credit for those not eligible to access the federal tax credit because of their immigration status or income. 3. No later than eighteen months after the effective date of this act, the department of financial services shall report to the legislature and the governor on the findings of the study conducted pursuant to section one of this act and any legislative recommendations deemed to be neces- sary. ยง 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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