New York A 1915: Relates to requiring certain financially assisted development projects in a city with a population of one million or more to be subject to certain prevailing wage requirements

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A01915 Summary:

BILL NOA01915B

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SAME ASSAME AS S01634-A

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRWeprin, Hevesi, Reyes, Simone, Bichotte Hermelyn, Lunsford, McDonald, Rosenthal, Gonzalez-Rojas,
 Steck, Dinowitz, Kelles, Tapia, Woerner, Griffin, Meeks, Romero, Seawright, Gibbs, Taylor,
 Chandler-Waterman, Brown K, Sayegh, Kay, Rivera, Simon, Lee, Cruz, Raga, Levenberg, Wright,
 McMahon, Shimsky, Wieder, Cook, Bronson

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §3217-k, Ins L; add §368-g, Soc Serv L

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Requires health care plans and payors to have a minimum of twelve and one-half percent of their total expenditures on physical and mental health annually be for primary care services.

Go to top A01915 Actions:

BILL NOA01915B

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01/14/2025referred to insurance

01/22/2025amend and recommit to insurance

01/22/2025print number 1915a

01/07/2026referred to insurance

04/29/2026reported referred to ways and means

04/29/2026amend and recommit to ways and means

04/29/2026print number 1915b

Go to topA01915 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:INSURANCE Chair:Weprin 
DATE:04/29/2026AYE/NAY:14/6 Action: Favorable refer to committee Ways and Means WeprinAyeBlankenbushNay

CookExcusedHawleyNay

LavineAyeGandolfoNay

SteckAyeJensenNay

DilanExcusedBlumencranzAye

HunterAyeBendettAye

MeeksExcusedChludzinskiNay

ForrestAye

AndersonAye

CruzAye

BoresAbsent

LunsfordAye

BergerAye

EichensteinAye

KayAye

YegerNay

WiederExcused

LeeAye

Go to topA01915 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA01915 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1915--B

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, WEPRIN, HEVESI, REYES, SIMONE,
 BICHOTTE HERMELYN, LUNSFORD, McDONALD, ROSENTHAL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
 STECK, DINOWITZ, KELLES, TAPIA, WOERNER, GRIFFIN, MEEKS, ROMERO,
 SEAWRIGHT, GIBBS, TAYLOR, CHANDLER-WATERMAN, K. BROWN, SAYEGH, KAY,
 RIVERA, SIMON, LEE, CRUZ, RAGA, LEVENBERG, WRIGHT, McMAHON, SHIMSKY --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways
 and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means in accord-
 ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the social services law, in
 relation to primary care investment

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

 1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3217-k
 2 to read as follows:
 3 § 3217-k. Primary care spending. (a) Definitions. As used in this
 4 section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
 5 (1) "Overall healthcare spending" means the total cost of care for the
 6 patient population of a payor or provider entity for a given calendar
 7 year, where cost is calculated for such year as the sum of (A) all
 8 claims-based spending paid to providers by public and private payors and
 9 (B) all non-claim payments for such year, including, but not limited to,
 10 incentive payments and care coordination payments.
 11 (2) "Plan or payor" means every insurance entity providing managed
 12 care products, individual comprehensive accident and health insurance or
 13 group or blanket comprehensive accident and health insurance, as defined
 14 in this chapter, corporation organized under article forty-three of this
 15 chapter providing comprehensive health insurance, entity licensed under

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04789-16-6

 A. 1915--B 2

 1 article forty-four of this chapter providing comprehensive health insur-
 2 ance, every other plan over which the department has jurisdiction, and
 3 every third-party payor providing health coverage.
 4 (3) "Primary care" means integrated, accessible healthcare, provided
 5 by clinicians accountable for addressing most of a patient's healthcare
 6 needs including (A) developing a sustained partnership with patients;
 7 (B) practicing in the conte