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                                   2054
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, ORTIZ, GOTTFRIED, PEOPLES-STOKES, ZEBROW-
   SKI, HOOPER, BICHOTTE, BLAKE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  GLICK,
   HYNDMAN,  MAGEE, MOSLEY, ROSENTHAL, SIMON -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation
   to disclosure and access to health insurance plan documents
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  3  of  subsection (b) of section 3217-a of the
 insurance law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996,  is  amended
 to read as follows:
   (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
 er  contracts  AND,  UPON  THE  WRITTEN REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL COVERED
 UNDER A GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING,
 PROVIDE  A  COPY  OF  SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE RECEIPT OF
 SUCH REQUEST;
   § 2. Paragraph 3 of subsection (b) of section 4324  of  the  insurance
 law,  as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (3) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
 er contracts AND, UPON THE WRITTEN  REQUEST  OF  AN  INDIVIDUAL  COVERED
 UNDER  A  GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING,
 PROVIDE A COPY OF SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF  THE  RECEIPT  OF
 SUCH REQUEST;
   §  3.  Paragraph  (c)  of  subdivision 2 of section 4408 of the public
 health law, as added by chapter 705 of the laws of 1996, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   (c) provide a copy of the most recent individual, direct pay subscrib-
 er  contracts  AND,  UPON  THE  WRITTEN REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL COVERED
 UNDER A GROUP CONTRACT WHICH WAS THE SUBJECT OF  COLLECTIVE  BARGAINING,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 PROVIDE  A  COPY  OF  SUCH CONTRACT WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE RECEIPT OF
 SUCH REQUEST;
   §  4.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.