Bill Text: NY A03166 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for tracking devices to be used on children with developmental disabilities.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to insurance [A03166 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03166-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3166
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 22, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, DINOWITZ, OTIS, ABINANTI, MOSLEY, JAFFEE,
         DUPREY,  COOK, GALEF, CRESPO, SEPULVEDA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
         A. BROOK-KRASNY, CLARK, DiPIETRO, GIGLIO, MARKEY,  McLAUGHLIN,  PERRY,
         ROZIC,  SCHIMEL,  SIMOTAS,  SOLAGES  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  mandatory  health
         insurance  coverage  for  tracking  devices for children with develop-
         mental disabilities
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subsection  (i)  of  section 3216 of the insurance law is
    2  amended by adding a new paragraph 32 to read as follows:
    3    (32) EVERY POLICY WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR  MEDICAL,  OR  SIMILAR
    4  COMPREHENSIVE  TYPE  COVERAGE  SHALL  INCLUDE  COVERAGE FOR GPS TRACKING
    5  DEVICES TO BE USED ON CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, PROVIDED
    6  THAT THE TREATING PHYSICIAN  OR  OTHER  LICENSED  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER
    7  ISSUES  A WRITTEN ORDER STATING SUCH DEVICE IS NECESSARY FOR THE CHILD'S
    8  WELFARE.
    9    S 2. Subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
   10  adding a new paragraph 19 to read as follows:
   11    (19) EVERY POLICY WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR  MEDICAL,  OR  SIMILAR
   12  COMPREHENSIVE  TYPE  COVERAGE  SHALL  INCLUDE  COVERAGE FOR GPS TRACKING
   13  DEVICES TO BE USED ON CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, PROVIDED
   14  THAT THE TREATING PHYSICIAN  OR  OTHER  LICENSED  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER
   15  ISSUES  A WRITTEN ORDER STATING SUCH DEVICE IS NECESSARY FOR THE CHILD'S
   16  WELFARE.
   17    S 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
   18  subsection (pp) to read as follows:
   19    (PP)  EVERY  POLICY  WHICH PROVIDES MEDICAL, MAJOR MEDICAL, OR SIMILAR
   20  COMPREHENSIVE TYPE COVERAGE SHALL  INCLUDE  COVERAGE  FOR  GPS  TRACKING
   21  DEVICES TO BE USED ON CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES, PROVIDED
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03776-02-5
       A. 3166                             2
    1  THAT  THE  TREATING  PHYSICIAN  OR  OTHER  LICENSED HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
    2  ISSUES A WRITTEN ORDER STATING SUCH DEVICE IS NECESSARY FOR THE  CHILD'S
    3  WELFARE.
    4    S  4.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    5  have become a law and shall apply  to  policies  and  contracts  issued,
    6  renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such effective date.