Excepts from community rating requirements group health insurance policies issued to multiple employer trusts consisting of municipal corporations and public benefit corporations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3065
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 21, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHROEDER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to excepting from commu-
nity rating requirements group health insurance policies issued to
multiple employer trusts consisting of municipal corporations and
public benefit corporations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (g) of section 3231 of the insurance law, as
2 added by chapter 501 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
3 (g) This section shall also apply to policies issued to a group
4 defined in subsection (c) of section four thousand two hundred thirty-
5 five of this chapter, including but not limited to an association or
6 trust of employers, if the group includes one or more member employers
7 or other member groups which have fifty or fewer employees or members
8 exclusive of spouses and dependents, provided however that this section
9 shall not apply to policies issued to a group defined in subparagraph
10 (D) of paragraph one of subsection (c) of section four thousand two
11 hundred thirty-five of this chapter, if the group includes one or more
12 member employers that are municipal corporations or public benefit
13 corporations that have fifty or fewer employees exclusive of spouses and
14 dependents.
15 § 2. Paragraph 1 of subsection (d) of section 4317 of the insurance
16 law, as amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 494 of the laws of
17 2009, is amended to read as follows:
18 (1) This section shall also apply to contracts issued to a group
19 defined in subsection (c) of section four thousand two hundred thirty-
20 five of this chapter, including but not limited to an association or
21 trust of employers, if the group includes one or more member employers
22 or other member groups which have fifty or fewer employees or members
23 exclusive of spouses and dependents, provided however that this section
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 shall not apply to policies issued to a group defined in subparagraph
2 (D) of paragraph one of subsection (c) of section four thousand two
3 hundred thirty-five of this chapter, if the group includes one or more
4 member employers that are municipal corporations or public benefit
5 corporations that have fifty or fewer employees exclusive of spouses and
6 dependents.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
