New York S 6377: Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities and insurers; relates to coverage for treatment for gender dysphoria

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S06377 Summary:

BILL NOS06377A

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SAME ASSAME AS A06596-A

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L; add §296-e, Exec L; amd §§3243, 4303, 3221 & 3216, Ins L

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Requires Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; prohibits discriminatory practices by health care entities including hospitals, certain professionals, and insurers; requires insurance coverage for services or treatments for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence.

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BILL NOS06377A

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03/12/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

06/03/2025AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH

06/03/2025PRINT NUMBER 6377A

11/25/2025RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6377--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring Medi-
 caid to cover gender-affirming care regardless of federal funding; to
 amend the executive law, in relation to prohibiting discriminatory
 practices by health care entities; and to amend the insurance law, in
 relation to prohibiting discriminatory practices by insurers and to
 coverage for treatment for gender dysphoria or gender incongruence

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law
 2 is amended by adding a new paragraph (oo) to read as follows:
 3 (oo) all medically necessary gender-affirming care regardless of
 4 whether any federal funds are available for such coverage.
 5 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 296-e to
 6 read as follows:
 7 § 296-e. Unlawful discriminatory practices in relation to health care.
 8 1. For the purposes of this section, the term "health care entity"
 9 means:
 10 (a) a hospital or provider as defined by section twenty-eight hundred
 11 one of the public health law; including those defined in section two
 12 hundred ninety-two of this article; or
 13 (b) a professional licensed under article one hundred thirty-one, one
 14 hundred thirty-one-b, one hundred thirty-one-c, one hundred thirty-two,
 15 one hundred thirty-three, one hundred thirty-four, one hundred thirty-
 16 six, one hundred thirty-seven, one hundred thirty-seven-a, one hundred
 17 thirty-nine, one hundred forty, one hundred forty-one, one hundred
 18 forty-three, one hundred forty-four, one hundred fifty-three, one

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09201-08-5

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 1 hundred fifty-seven, one hundred sixty-three, one hundred sixty-four, or
 2 one hundred sixty-seven of the education law; or
 3 (c) an issuer or provider of coverage for health insurance, as defined
 4 by section seven thousand seven hundred five of the insurance law.
 5 2. It shall be an unlawful discriminatory practice for any health care
 6 entity to refuse services or to otherwise discriminate against any
 7 person on the basis of such person's age, race, creed, color, national
 8 origin, citizenship or immigration status, sexual orientation, gender
 9 identity or expression, military status, sex, disability, predisposing
 10 genetic characteristics, familial status, marital status, or status as a
 11 victim of domestic violence.
 12 § 3. The section heading and the opening paragraph and paragraphs 4, 7
 13 and 8 of subsection (a) of section 3243 of the insurance law, as added
 14 by section 2 of subpart D of part J of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019,
 15 are amended and four new paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 are added to read
 16 as follows:
 17 Discrimination because of race, national origin, age, disability, sex
 18 or marital status in hospital, surgical or medic