Senate Bill S6371

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for health insurance coverage for nutritional care provided through licensed nutritionists

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Insurance Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S6371 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5965
Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4301, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2071, A4772
2011-2012: S3023, A5053
2013-2014: S889, A7955
2015-2016: S1893, A7088
2017-2018: S3289, A5406
2019-2020: S4851, A6888
2021-2022: S5223, A4467

2023-S6371 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for health insurance coverage for nutritional care provided through licensed nutritionists.

2023-S6371 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6371 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6371
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 18, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  health  insurance
   coverage for services by nutritionists
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraphs (J) and (K) of paragraph 1 of subsection  (b)
 of  section  4301  of the insurance law, as relettered by chapter 456 of
 the laws of 1993, are amended and a new subparagraph  (L)  is  added  to
 read as follows:
   (J) necessary appliances, drugs, medicines and supplies, [and]
   (K)  bio-analytical  or  clinical  laboratory examinations and reports
 thereof reported to a physician, osteopath, dentist, optometrist, podia-
 trist, chiropractor or physical therapist made by any privately operated
 bioanalytical or clinical laboratory[.], AND
   (L) NUTRITIONAL CARE PROVIDED THROUGH LICENSED NUTRITIONISTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07886-01-3

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