New York S 9275: 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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S09275 Summary:

BILL NOS09275A

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SAME ASSAME AS A06596-C

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRBOTTCHER, BRISPORT, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, WEBB, ZELLNER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §365-a, Soc Serv L; amd §2510, Pub Health L; amd §§292 & 296, 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 NOS09275A

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02/23/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

03/17/2026REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE

04/22/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO FINANCE

04/22/2026PRINT NUMBER 9275A

05/19/20261ST REPORT CAL.1214

05/20/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/21/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/05/2026COMMITTED TO RULES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9275--A

 IN SENATE

 February 23, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, WEBB, ZELLNER
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Health -- reported favorably from said committee and
 committed to the Committee on Finance -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 AN ACT to amend the social services law and the public health law, in
 relation to requiring Medicaid to cover gender-affirming care regard-
 less 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 dyspho-
 ria 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. Subdivision 7 of section 2510 of the public health law, as
 6 amended by section 1 of part DDD of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 7 amended to read as follows:
 8 7. "Covered health care services" means: the services of physicians,
 9 optometrists, nurses, nurse practitioners, midwives and other related
 10 professional personnel which are provided on an outpatient basis,
 11 including routine well-child visits; diagnosis and treatment of illness
 12 and injury; inpatient health care services; laboratory tests; diagnostic
 13 x-rays; prescription and non-prescription drugs, ostomy and other
 14 medical supplies and durable medical equipment; radiation therapy;
 15 chemotherapy; hemodialysis; outpatient blood clotting factor products
 16 and other treatments and services furnished in connection with the care
 17 of hemophilia and other blood clotting protein deficiencies; emergency
 18 room services; ambulance services; hospice services; emergency, preven-
 19 tive and routine dental care, including orthodontia but excluding

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14310-04-6

 S. 9275--A 2

 1 cosmetic surgery; emergency, preventive and routine vision care, includ-
 2 ing eyeglasses; speech and hearing services; inpatient and outpatient
 3 mental health, alcohol and substance abuse services, including children
 4 and family treatment and support services, children's home and community
 5 based services, assertive community treatment services and residential
 6 rehabilitation for youth services which shall be reimbursed in accord-
 7 ance with the ambulatory patient group (APG) rate-setting methodology as
 8 utilized by the department of health, the office of addiction services
 9 and supports, or the office of mental health for rate-setting purposes
 10 or any such other fees establis