STATE OF NEW YORK
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8144--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Assembly
Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring postpartum
pelvic floor therapy be covered under maternity care
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection
2 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the
3 laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
5 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
6 tum pelvic floor therapy, and the performance of any necessary maternal
7 and newborn clinical assessments.
8 § 2. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of
9 section 3221 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of the laws of
10 1996, is amended to read as follows:
11 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent
12 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
13 tum pelvic floor therapy, and the performance of any necessary maternal
14 and newborn clinical assessments.
15 § 3. Subparagraph (B) of paragraph 1 of subsection (c) of section 4303
16 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is
17 amended to read as follows:
18 (B) Maternity care coverage also shall include, at minimum, parent
19 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, postpar-
20 tum pelvic floor therapy, and the performance of any necessary maternal
21 and newborn clinical assessments.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
2 ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to
3 policies or contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered, or amended on
4 or after such date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
5 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
6 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
7 completed on or before such date.
