Senate Bill S3232

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens

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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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2023-S3232 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4598
Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L; add §§209-q & 630-l, Tax L; add §97-ii, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S3478, A5174
2015-2016: S46, A1277
2017-2018: S4713, A114
2019-2020: S426, A178
2021-2022: S998, A1183

2023-S3232 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health insurers to provide coverage for long term medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related pathogens; provides for taxpayer gifts for tick borne illness research, detection and education; establishes the tick borne illness research, detection and education fund.

2023-S3232 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3232 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3232
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  HARCKHAM,  MAYER, SERRANO -- 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 coverage of long term
   medical care for Lyme disease and other tick borne related  pathogens;
   and  to  amend  the  tax law and the state finance law, in relation to
   providing  for  taxpayer  gifts  for  tick  borne  illness   research,
   detection  and  education  and  establishing  the  tick  borne illness
   research, detection and education fund
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "tick borne
 illness treatment and education act of 2023".
   § 2. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 39 to read as follows:
   (39)  EVERY  INSURER ISSUING A POLICY OF ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE
 FOR DELIVERY IN THIS STATE SHALL PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  ALL  COSTS  FOR
 TREATMENT  OF  LYME  DISEASE  (LYME  BORRELIOSIS)  AND  OTHER TICK BORNE
 RELATED PATHOGENS.  SUCH TREATMENT MAY  INCLUDE  INTRAVENOUS  ANTIBIOTIC
 THERAPY,  ORAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, OR ANY OTHER TREATMENT, OR ANY COMBI-
 NATION OF TREATMENTS, PROVIDED SUCH TREATMENT IS RECOMMENDED BY A PHYSI-
 CIAN LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
   § 3. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 23 to read as follows:
   (23) EVERY GROUP OR BLANKET POLICY DELIVERED OR ISSUED FOR DELIVERY IN
 THIS STATE WHICH PROVIDES HOSPITAL, SURGICAL OR MEDICAL  COVERAGE  SHALL
 PROVIDE  COVERAGE  FOR  ALL  COSTS  FOR  TREATMENT OF LYME DISEASE (LYME
 BORRELIOSIS) AND OTHER TICK BORNE RELATED PATHOGENS.  SUCH TREATMENT MAY
 INCLUDE INTRAVENOUS ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, ORAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY, OR  ANY
 OTHER  TREATMENT, OR ANY COMBINATION OF TREATMENTS, PROVIDED SUCH TREAT-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07820-01-3
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