Bill Text: NY S02334 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2334

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides for coverage of screenings for elevated lead levels exempting them from annual deductibles or coinsurance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-16 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S02334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02334-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2334

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance  law  and  the  social  services  law,  in
          relation to elevated lead levels screening

          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 40 to read as follows:
     3    (40) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
     4  the  policy  shall  not be subject to annual deductibles or coinsurance.
     5  For the purposes of this paragraph, "elevated lead  levels"  shall  have
     6  the  same  meaning  as  set forth in subdivision six of section thirteen
     7  hundred seventy of the public health law.
     8    § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
     9  adding a new paragraph 24 to read as follows:
    10    (24) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
    11  the policy shall not be subject to annual  deductibles  or  coinsurance.
    12  For  the  purposes  of this paragraph, "elevated lead levels" shall have
    13  the same meaning as set forth in subdivision  six  of  section  thirteen
    14  hundred seventy of the public health law.
    15    §  3.  Section  4303  of  the insurance law is amended by adding a new
    16  subsection (ww) to read as follows:
    17    (ww) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
    18  the policy shall not be subject to annual  deductibles  or  coinsurance.
    19  For  the  purposes of this subsection, "elevated lead levels" shall have
    20  the same meaning as set forth in subdivision  six  of  section  thirteen
    21  hundred seventy of the public health law.
    22    §  4.  Subdivision  2  of  section 365-a of the social services law is
    23  amended by adding a new paragraph (nn) to read as follows:
    24    (nn) screening and blood tests of children for elevated  lead  levels.
    25  For  the purposes of this paragraph, elevated lead levels shall have the
    26  same definition as set forth in  subdivision  six  of  section  thirteen
    27  hundred seventy of the public health law.
    28    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.

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