STATE OF NEW YORK
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7953
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. FORREST -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the social services law, in
relation to elevated lead levels screening
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph 40 to read as follows:
3 (40) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
4 the policy shall not be subject to annual deductibles or coinsurance.
5 For the purposes of this paragraph, "elevated lead levels" shall have
6 the same meaning as set forth in subdivision six of section thirteen
7 hundred seventy of the public health law.
8 § 2. Subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance law is amended by
9 adding a new paragraph 24 to read as follows:
10 (24) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
11 the policy shall not be subject to annual deductibles or coinsurance.
12 For the purposes of this paragraph, "elevated lead levels" shall have
13 the same meaning as set forth in subdivision six of section thirteen
14 hundred seventy of the public health law.
15 § 3. Section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by adding a new
16 subsection (ww) to read as follows:
17 (ww) Screening for the detection of elevated lead levels covered under
18 the policy shall not be subject to annual deductibles or coinsurance.
19 For the purposes of this subsection, "elevated lead levels" shall have
20 the same meaning as set forth in subdivision six of section thirteen
21 hundred seventy of the public health law.
22 § 4. Subdivision 2 of section 365-a of the social services law is
23 amended by adding a new paragraph (nn) to read as follows:
24 (nn) screening and blood tests of children for elevated lead levels.
25 For the purposes of this paragraph, elevated lead levels shall have the
26 same definition as set forth in subdivision six of section thirteen
27 hundred seventy of the public health law.
28 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05676-01-5
