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Assembly Bill A9405

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to entities who serve as navigators that can help individuals apply for health insurance

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2025-A9405 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §268-c, Pub Health L

2025-A9405 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the Marketplace to award grants to entities to serve as navigators that can help individuals apply for health insurance.

2025-A9405 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9405
 
                        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, in relation to the Marketplace
   awarding grants to entities to serve as navigators
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 15 of section 268-c of the public health law,
 as added by section 2 of part T of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2019,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   15.  Operate  a  program  under which the Marketplace awards grants to
 entities to serve as navigators in accordance  with  applicable  federal
 law and regulations adopted thereunder, and/or a program under which the
 Marketplace awards grants to entities to provide community based enroll-
 ment assistance in accordance with requirements developed by the Market-
 place;  and/or  a program under which the Marketplace certifies New York
 state licensed producers to provide assistance to  eligible  individuals
 and/or  small  employers  pursuant  to  federal or state law. SUBJECT TO
 APPROPRIATION, ADDITIONAL GRANTS SHALL BE AWARDED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS  TO
 PROVIDERS  IN  THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND COUNTIES WHERE THE RATE OF UNIN-
 SURED INDIVIDUALS BELOW FOUR HUNDRED  PERCENT  OF  THE  FEDERAL  POVERTY
 LEVEL IS ABOVE THE STATEWIDE AVERAGE.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14133-01-5

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