Bill Text: NY A09718 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9718 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Prohibits medical malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against an abortion or reproductive health care provider who performs an abortion or provides reproductive health care that is legal in the state of New York on someone who is from out of the state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-02 - substituted by s9080b [A09718 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09718-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9718

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  prohibiting  medical
          malpractice insurance companies from taking any adverse action against
          a  reproductive  health  care provider who provides legal reproductive
          health care

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  5504 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
     2  new subsection (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g) Policies issued by the association shall prohibit  an  insurer  of
     4  the  association  from  taking any adverse action against an abortion or
     5  reproductive health care provider who performs an abortion  or  provides
     6  reproductive health care that is legal in the state of New York on some-
     7  one  who  is  from  out  of the state. Such policy shall include medical
     8  professionals who prescribe abortion medication to out-of-state patients
     9  by means of telehealth.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15073-01-2