New York S 2676: Authorizes former members of the United States public health service to receive a distinguishing mark on their license indicating that they are a veteran

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S02676 Summary:

BILL NOS02676 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00443

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SPONSORBAILEY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§4902 & 4903, Ins L; amd §§4902 & 4903, Pub Health L; amd §5, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.1267-A &
A.901-A)

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Relates to health care plans for step therapy protocol; amends effective date to January 1, 2026.

Go to top S02676 Actions:

BILL NOS02676 

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01/22/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/27/2025ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.159

02/11/2025SUBSTITUTED BY A443

&nbspA00443 AMEND= McDonald

&nbsp01/08/2025referred to insurance

&nbsp01/28/2025reported referred to rules

&nbsp01/28/2025reported 

&nbsp01/28/2025rules report cal.73

&nbsp01/28/2025ordered to third reading rules cal.73

&nbsp02/04/2025passed assembly

&nbsp02/04/2025delivered to senate

&nbsp02/04/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp02/11/2025SUBSTITUTED FOR S2676

&nbsp02/11/20253RD READING CAL.159

&nbsp02/11/2025PASSED SENATE

&nbsp02/11/2025RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp02/12/2025delivered to governor

&nbsp02/14/2025signed chap.20

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2676

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the public health law, in relation
 to step therapy protocol; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024
 amending the insurance law and the public health law, relating to
 requiring a utilization review agent to follow certain rules when
 establishing a step therapy protocol, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 1267-A and A. 901-A, in relation to the effectiveness ther-
 eof

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

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs 15 and 16 of subsection (a) of section 4902 of
 2 the insurance law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending
 3 the insurance law and the public health law, relating to requiring a
 4 utilization review agent to follow certain rules when establishing a
 5 step therapy protocol, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 6 1267-A and A. 901-A, are amended to read as follows:
 7 (15) When establishing a step therapy protocol, a utilization review
 8 agent shall ensure that the protocol cannot:
 9 (i) require a prescription drug that has not been approved by the
 10 United States Food and Drug Administration for the medical condition
 11 being treated [and/or] or is not supported by current evidence-based
 12 guidelines for the medical condition being treated;
 13 (ii) require an insured to try and fail on more than two drugs [within
 14 one therapeutic category] used to treat the same medical condition or
 15 disease before providing coverage to the insured for the prescribed
 16 drug;
 17 (iii) require the use of a step therapy-required drug for longer than
 18 thirty days or a duration of treatment supported by current evidence-
 19 based treatment guidelines appropriate to the specific disease state
 20 being treated;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02801-01-5

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 1 (iv) be imposed on an insured if a therapeutic equivalent to the
 2 prescribed drug is not available, or if the health care plan has
 3 documentation that it has covered the drug for the [enrollee] insured
 4 within the past three hundred sixty-five days;
 5 (v) require a newly enrolled insured to repeat a step therapy protocol
 6 for a prescribed drug where that insured already completed a step thera-
 7 py protocol for that drug under a prior health care plan, so long as the
 8 enrollee or provider submits information demonstrating completion of a
 9 step therapy protocol of the prior health care plan within the past
 10 three hundred sixty-five days; and
 11 (vi) be imposed on an insured for a prescribed drug that was previous-
 12 ly approved for coverage by [a] the insured's current health care plan
 13 for a specific m