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                                  6146--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 30, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 requiring certain
   insurers to provide coverage for tattooing performed by a physician as
   part of breast reconstruction surgery
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  20  of  subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the
 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (A-1) to  read  as
 follows:
   (A-1)  EVERY POLICY PROVIDING COVERAGE AS REQUIRED BY SUBPARAGRAPH (A)
 OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL ALSO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR THE TATTOOING  OF  THE
 NIPPLE-AREOLAR  COMPLEX PURSUANT TO OR AS PART OF SUCH RECONSTRUCTION IF
 SUCH TATTOOING IS PERFORMED BY A LICENSED PHYSICIAN OR OTHER HEALTH CARE
 PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO TITLE  EIGHT
 OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND ACTING WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
   §  2.  Paragraph 10 of subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (A-1) to read as follows:
   (A-1) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY PROVIDING COVERAGE AS REQUIRED  BY
 SUBPARAGRAPH  (A)  OF THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL ALSO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR THE
 TATTOOING OF THE NIPPLE-AREOLAR COMPLEX PURSUANT TO OR AS PART  OF  SUCH
 RECONSTRUCTION IF SUCH TATTOOING IS PERFORMED BY A LICENSED PHYSICIAN OR
 OTHER HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED PURSU-
 ANT TO TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND ACTING WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF
 PRACTICE.
   § 3. Subsection (x) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 1-A to read as follows:
   (1-A)  EVERY  CONTRACT PROVIDING COVERAGE AS REQUIRED BY PARAGRAPH ONE
 OF THIS SUBSECTION SHALL ALSO PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR THE TATTOOING OF  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05882-05-3
              

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 NIPPLE-AREOLAR  COMPLEX PURSUANT TO OR AS PART OF SUCH RECONSTRUCTION IF
 SUCH TATTOOING IS PERFORMED BY A LICENSED PHYSICIAN OR OTHER HEALTH CARE
 PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO TITLE  EIGHT
 OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND ACTING WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
   §  4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a  law  and  shall  apply  to
 policies issued, reissued, renewed, modified or amended on or after such
 date.