STATE OF NEW YORK
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5952--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to unfair discrimination
by insurers for the use of prescriptions to block the effects of
opioids
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 2617
2 to read as follows:
3 § 2617. Unfair discrimination for the use of prescriptions to block
4 the effects of opioids. No insurer or entity authorized to issue the
5 kinds of insurance specified in paragraphs one or two of subsection (a)
6 of section one thousand one hundred thirteen of this chapter shall
7 refuse to issue a life insurance policy or annuity contract or adjust
8 the amount of premiums, or rates, charged for life insurance policies or
9 annuity contracts for any individual solely because such individual has
10 been prescribed medication used to block the effects of opioids, includ-
11 ing, but not limited to, Naloxone and Narcan, unless such action is
12 based on sound actuarial principles or actual or reasonably anticipated
13 experience.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08725-04-9