New York A 5746: Relates to admissible evidence in court proceedings to secure an order of protection

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A05746 Summary:

BILL NOA05746 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRDeStefano, Giglio

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Amd §343, Ins L

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Requires the superintendent of financial services to audit certain reports to ensure such insurers are in full compliance with federal and state mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements.

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BILL NOA05746 

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02/20/2025referred to insurance

05/20/2025enacting clause stricken

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5746

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Insurance

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring the super-
 intendent of financial services to audit certain reports submitted by
 insurers to ensure such insurers are in full compliance with federal
 and state mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements

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

 1 Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 343 of the insurance law, as
 2 added by chapter 207 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
 3 (a) (i) Beginning July first, two thousand nineteen and every two
 4 years thereafter, each insurer providing managed care products, individ-
 5 ual comprehensive accident and health insurance or group or blanket
 6 comprehensive accident and health insurance, each corporation organized
 7 pursuant to article forty-three of this chapter providing comprehensive
 8 health insurance and each entity licensed pursuant to article forty-four
 9 of the public health law providing comprehensive health service plans
 10 shall submit to the superintendent, in a form and manner prescribed by
 11 the superintendent, a report detailing the entity's compliance with
 12 federal and state mental health and substance use disorder parity laws
 13 based on the entity's record during the preceding two calendar years.
 14 The superintendent shall publish on the department's website on or
 15 before October first, two thousand nineteen, and every two years there-
 16 after, the reports submitted pursuant to this section.
 17 (ii) The superintendent shall audit each report submitted pursuant to
 18 this section. Such audit shall include, but not be limited to, an exam-
 19 ination of each such report submitted by the insurer for the purpose of
 20 determining if such insurer is in full compliance with federal and state
 21 mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements. In addi-
 22 tion, the superintendent shall investigate all credible allegations of
 23 insurer improprieties and noncompliance. Where the superintendent makes

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09643-01-5

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 1 a determination that an insurer has willfully violated federal or state
 2 mental health and substance use disorder parity requirements, the super-
 3 intendent shall provide such findings, including the reason or reasons
 4 for making such determination, to the office of the attorney general.
 5 The attorney general shall consider the superintendent's findings and,
 6 upon agreement with the superintendent's determination, shall commence
 7 an action in the name of the people of the state to enforce an insurer's
 8 required compliance with federal and state mental health and substance
 9 use disorder parity requirements.
 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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