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Assembly Bill A9384

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the New York health care savings act which authorizes the establishment of health care savings accounts to allow residents to save money for the payment of qualified health care related expenses

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2025-A9384 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 48-A §§4850 - 4856, Pub Health L; amd §612, Tax L

2025-A9384 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the establishment of New York health care savings accounts to allow residents of the state to save money for the payment of qualified health care related expenses; relates to the use, maintenance, and tax liability of such accounts.

2025-A9384 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9384
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law and the tax law, in relation to
   establishing New York health  care  savings  accounts  to  expand  and
   incentivize purchasing private health insurance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 the "New York health care savings act".
   §  2. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 48-A to
 read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 48-A
                NEW YORK STATE HEALTH CARE SAVINGS PROGRAM
 SECTION 4850. PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.
         4851. PURPOSES.
         4852. DEFINITIONS.
         4853. FUNCTIONS OF THE COMPTROLLER AND THE CORPORATION.
         4854. POWERS OF THE COMPTROLLER.
         4855. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS; NEW YORK STATE HEALTH  CARE  SAVINGS
                 ACCOUNT.
         4856. PROGRAM  LIMITATIONS;  NEW  YORK STATE HEALTH CARE SAVINGS
                 ACCOUNT.
   § 4850. PROGRAM ESTABLISHED. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  HEALTH  CARE  SAVINGS PROGRAM AND SUCH PROGRAM SHALL BE KNOWN AND
 MAY BE CITED AS THE "NEW YORK STATE HEALTH CARE SAVINGS PROGRAM".
   § 4851. PURPOSES. THE PURPOSES OF  THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  HEALTH  CARE
 SAVINGS  PROGRAM  SHALL  BE  TO  AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF NEW YORK
 STATE HEALTH CARE SAVINGS ACCOUNTS AND TO  PROVIDE  GUIDELINES  FOR  THE
 MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACCOUNTS.
   §  4852.  DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE FOLLOWING
 TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14135-01-5
              

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