Establishes a uniform effective date for health insurance benefit mandates by requiring that every law that adds provisions to or amends provisions of sections 3216, 3221, and 4303 of the insurance law requiring a policy of health insurance to provide coverage for a new health care service, treatment, or benefit, or that otherwise mandates coverage under such policy shall take effect no earlier than the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such effective date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
February 12, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the legislative law, in relation to establishing a
uniform effective date for health insurance benefit mandates
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The legislative law is amended by adding a new section 43-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 43-a. Time of taking effect of laws related to health insurance
4 coverage. 1. Every law enacted after the effective date of this section
5 that adds provisions to or amends provisions of section three thousand
6 two hundred sixteen, three thousand two hundred twenty-one, and four
7 thousand three hundred three of the insurance law requiring a policy of
8 health insurance to provide coverage for a new health care service,
9 treatment, or benefit, or that otherwise mandates coverage under such
10 policy shall take effect no earlier than the first of January next
11 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply
12 to policies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended
13 on or after such effective date.
14 2. The superintendent of financial services may promulgate such rules
15 and regulations as are necessary to implement the provisions of this
16 section.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14662-01-6
