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                                   5957
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2023
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 Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  COOK,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  ZEBROWSKI,  TAYLOR,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN, SAYEGH, GUNTHER, EPSTEIN, COLTON, STECK  --  Multi-
   Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON,  DAVILA,  GLICK,  HYNDMAN,
   L. ROSENTHAL, SIMON -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  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;
   §  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;
   § 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;
   §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.