Assembly Bill A6714

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for standardized health insurance contracts for small dental employers

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  • 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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2025-A6714 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5326
Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§4326 & 4327, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8360, S8143

2025-A6714 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for standardized health insurance contracts for small dental employers who meet certain criteria.

2025-A6714 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   6714
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, DeSTEFANO, LUPAR-
   DO, SIMON, PAULIN, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, GLICK, JONES,  BICHOTTE HERME-
   LYN, RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to standardized health
   insurance contracts for small dental employers; and providing for  the
   repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading and subsections (a), (c), (g), (h), (i)
 and (k) of section 4326 of the insurance law, as amended by  section  56
 of  part  D  of  chapter  56 of the laws of 2013, are amended to read as
 follows:
   Standardized  health  insurance   contracts   for   qualifying   small
 employers,  QUALIFYING  SMALL  DENTAL  EMPLOYERS  and individuals. (a) A
 program is hereby established for the  purpose  of  making  standardized
 health  insurance  contracts available to qualifying small employers AND
 QUALIFYING SMALL DENTAL EMPLOYERS  as  defined  in  this  section.  Such
 program  is designed to encourage small employers to offer health insur-
 ance coverage to their employees.
   (c) The following definitions shall be  applicable  to  the  insurance
 contracts offered under the program established by this section:
   (1) (A) A qualifying small employer is an employer with:
   (i) not more than fifty employees;
   (ii)  no  group  health insurance that provides benefits on an expense
 reimbursed or prepaid basis covering  employees  in  effect  during  the
 twelve  month  period prior to application for a qualifying group health
 insurance contract under the program established by this section; and
   (iii) at least thirty percent of its employees receiving annual  wages
 from  the  employer  at  a  level  equal to or less than thirty thousand
 dollars. The thirty thousand dollar figure  shall  be  adjusted  period-
 ically pursuant to subparagraph (D) of this paragraph.
   (B) The twelve month period set forth in item (ii) of subparagraph (A)
 of  this  paragraph  may  be  adjusted by the superintendent from twelve
 months to eighteen months if [he determines]  THEY  DETERMINE  that  the
 
              

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