New York S 219: Permits the administration of medical marihuana to students while at school and individuals with developmental disabilities while receiving services at a facility

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S00219 Summary:

BILL NOS00219 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGALLIVAN

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, CHAN, HELMING, O'MARA, RHOADS

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §206, Fin Serv L; amd §1502-a, Tax L; amd §§2807-j & 2807-s, Pub Health L

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Enacts the health care tax reform act; eliminates certain taxes and assessments on health insurance.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO INSURANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO INSURANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 219

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO -- read twice and ordered print-
 ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

 AN ACT to amend the financial services law, the tax law and the public
 health law, in relation to enacting the health care tax reform act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "health care tax reform act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings. The Legislature hereby finds that:
 4 (a) The affordability of health care and health insurance is extremely
 5 important in ensuring that the maximum number of New York State resi-
 6 dents can obtain high quality affordable health care;
 7 (b) Health care and health insurance are currently subject to several
 8 taxes that directly and indirectly increase the cost of health insurance
 9 coverage, including an annual flat tax on all privately insured people
 10 in New York State called the covered lives assessment that raises the
 11 costs to health plans by $1.1 Billion, a 9.63% sales tax surcharge on
 12 certain hospital based health services that costs consumers $3.6
 13 Billion, a 1.75% flat tax on all commercial health insurance policies
 14 that costs consumers $350 Million, and a gross receipts tax on insurance
 15 companies called a section 206 assessment that costs health plans $149
 16 Million a year;
 17 (c) Collectively, the taxes on health care and health insurance cost
 18 consumers a total of over $5 Billion in 2018, which exceeds the total
 19 amount of taxes paid by corporations through the franchise taxes and
 20 exceeds all other types of taxes except for personal income taxes and
 21 general sales taxes; and
 22 (d) The taxes on health care and health insurance are fundamentally
 23 regressive taxes because the taxes are unrelated to a consumer's wealth
 24 or ability to pay, directly impact hospitalization costs at a time when

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00796-01-5

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 1 consumers are facing some of their greatest health care challenges,
 2 directly increase the cost of health insurance, and are counterproduc-
 3 tive to the public policy objective of making health insurance as
 4 affordable as possible.
 5 § 3. Section 206 of the financial services law is amended by adding a
 6 new subsection (g) to read as follows:
 7 (g) For the fiscal year commencing on April first, two thousand twen-
 8 ty-five, the commissioner shall only collect eighty per centum of any
 9 assessments collected pursuant to this section in the fiscal year
 10 commencing on April first, two thousand twenty-six, and provided
 11 further, however, that for the fiscal year commencing on April first,
 12 two thousand twenty-eight, the commissioner shall only collect sixty per
 13 centum of any assessments collected pursuant to this section in the
 14 fiscal year commencing on April first, two thousand twenty-six, and
 15 provided further, however, that for the fiscal year commencing on April
 16 first, two thousand twenty-nine, the commissioner shall only collect
 17 forty per centum of any assessments collected pursuant to this section
 18 in the fiscal year commencing on April first, two thousand twenty-six,
 19 and provided further, however, that for the fiscal year commencing on
 20 April first, two thousand thirty, the commissioner shall only collect
 21 tw