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Assembly Bill A895A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires insurance to cover a car seat to be provided upon discharge of a newborn from a hospital

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2025-A895 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3216, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8057

2025-A895 - Summary

Requires insurance to cover car seats for newborns.

2025-A895 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    895
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Insurance
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for car seats
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 (i)  of  section  3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter  56  of
 the laws  of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include,  at  minimum,  parent
 education,  assistance  and  training in breast or bottle feeding, [and]
 the performance of any necessary maternal and newborn  clinical  assess-
 ments,  AND  AN INITIAL APPROPRIATE CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE-C OF THE  VEHICLE
 AND TRAFFIC LAW TO BE PROVIDED UPON DISCHARGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02098-01-5

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2025-A895A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3216, Ins L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8057

2025-A895A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires insurance to cover car seats for newborns.

2025-A895A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  895--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. FORREST, DE LOS SANTOS, EPSTEIN -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Insurance -- committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for car seats

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 (i)  of  section  3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter  56  of
 the laws  of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include,  at  minimum,  parent
 education,  assistance  and  training in breast or bottle feeding, [and]
 the performance of any necessary maternal and newborn  clinical  assess-
 ments,  AND  AN INITIAL APPROPRIATE CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED TWENTY-NINE-C OF THE  VEHICLE
 AND TRAFFIC LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02098-02-5

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