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Assembly Bill A4693

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services

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2025-A4693 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A9604
2017-2018: A4721
2019-2020: A5834
2021-2022: A8387
2023-2024: A2401

2025-A4693 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services.

2025-A4693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4693
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEMPOLINSKI -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  health
   insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subsection  (i)  of  section  3216  of  the
 insurance  law, as amended by section 5 of subpart A of part BB of chap-
 ter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (H)
 to read as follows:
   (H)  COVERAGE  PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH FOR DETOXIFICATION, SHALL
 BE AT A MINIMUM, SEVEN DAYS. REHABILITATION  SERVICES  SHALL  BE,  AT  A
 MINIMUM, THIRTY DAYS.
   §  2.  Paragraph 31 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (K) to read as follows:
   (K) COVERAGE PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH FOR  DETOXIFICATION,  SHALL
 BE  AT  A  MINIMUM,  SEVEN  DAYS. REHABILITATION SERVICES SHALL BE, AT A
 MINIMUM, THIRTY DAYS.
   § 3. Paragraph 6 of subsection (l) of section 3221  of  the  insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (H) to read as follows:
   (H)  COVERAGE  PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH FOR DETOXIFICATION, SHALL
 BE AT A MINIMUM, SEVEN DAYS. REHABILITATION  SERVICES  SHALL  BE,  AT  A
 MINIMUM, THIRTY DAYS.
   §  4.  Paragraph  7 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (K) to read as follows:
   (K) COVERAGE PROVIDED UNDER THIS PARAGRAPH FOR  DETOXIFICATION,  SHALL
 BE  AT  A  MINIMUM,  SEVEN  DAYS. REHABILITATION SERVICES SHALL BE, AT A
 MINIMUM, THIRTY DAYS.
   § 5. Subsection (k) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07530-01-5
 A. 4693                             2

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