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Assembly Bill A812

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires certain types of insurance cover certain allergen introduction dietary supplements

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2025-A812 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3216, 3221 & 4303, Ins L

2025-A812 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain types of insurance cover early allergen introduction dietary supplements for egg and peanut allergens.

2025-A812 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    812
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Insurance
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance law, in relation to requiring certain
   types of insurance cover certain allergen introduction dietary supple-
   ments

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  17  of  subsection  (i) of section 3216 of the
 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph  (G)  to  read  as
 follows:
   (G)  IN  ADDITION  TO  SUBPARAGRAPH (A), (B), (C), (D), (E), OR (F) OF
 THIS PARAGRAPH, EVERY POLICY THAT PROVIDES MEDICAL,  MAJOR  MEDICAL,  OR
 SIMILAR  COMPREHENSIVE-TYPE  COVERAGE  THAT  PROVIDES  COVERAGE  FOR THE
 PROVISION OF PREVENTATIVE AND PRIMARY CARE SERVICES SHALL PROVIDE COVER-
 AGE FOR AT LEAST ONE EARLY EGG ALLERGEN INTRODUCTION DIETARY  SUPPLEMENT
 AND  AT LEAST ONE EARLY PEANUT ALLERGEN INTRODUCTION DIETARY SUPPLEMENT.
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBPARAGRAPH, THE FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL  HAVE
 THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (I)  "EARLY  EGG  ALLERGEN  INTRODUCTION  DIETARY  SUPPLEMENT" MEANS A
 DIETARY SUPPLEMENT AS DEFINED IN FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND  COSMETIC  ACT,
 21  U.S.C.S. § 321 THAT CONTAINS SUFFICIENT INFANT-SAFE, WELL-COOKED EGG
 PROTEIN TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FOOD ALLERGIES AND  IS  PRESCRIBED  TO  AN
 INFANT  BY A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED
 UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW, AND ACTING WITHIN  THEIR  LAWFUL
 SCOPE OF PRACTICE.
   (II)  "EARLY  PEANUT ALLERGEN INTRODUCTION DIETARY SUPPLEMENT" MEANS A
 DIETARY SUPPLEMENT AS DEFINED IN FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND  COSMETIC  ACT,
 21 U.S.C.S. § 321 THAT CONTAINS SUFFICIENT INFANT-SAFE PEANUT PROTEIN TO
 REDUCE  THE  RISK  OF FOOD ALLERGIES AND IS PRESCRIBED TO AN INFANT BY A
 HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER LICENSED, CERTIFIED, OR AUTHORIZED UNDER  TITLE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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