Senate Bill S4242

2025-2026 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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2025-S4242 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4301, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2071
2011-2012: S3023
2013-2014: S889
2015-2016: S1893
2017-2018: S3289
2019-2020: S4851
2021-2022: S5223
2023-2024: S6371

2025-S4242 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S4242 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4242 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4242
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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.
                                                            LBD07909-01-5

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