New York A 895: Requires insurance to cover a car seat to be provided upon discharge of a newborn from a hospital

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A00895 Summary:

BILL NOA00895A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORForrest

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COSPNSRDe Los Santos, Epstein

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §3216, Ins L

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Requires insurance to cover car seats for newborns.

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BILL NOA00895A

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01/08/2025referred to insurance

04/10/2025amend and recommit to insurance

04/10/2025print number 895a

01/07/2026referred to insurance

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 895--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FORREST, DE LOS SANTOS, EPSTEIN -- read once and
 referred to the Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for car seats

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

 1 Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
 2 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of
 3 the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
 5 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, [and]
 6 the performance of any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assess-
 7 ments, and an initial appropriate child restraint system as defined in
 8 subdivision four of section twelve hundred twenty-nine-c of the vehicle
 9 and traffic law.
 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02098-02-5

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