STATE OF NEW YORK
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7594
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring insurers
participating in the NY state of health marketplace to offer at least
one dental plan for individuals age 65 and older
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 268-d of the public health law, as added by section 2 of part T
3 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
4 (ii) offers at least one qualified health plan and/or other or addi-
5 tional health plans authorized for sale by the department of financial
6 services or the department in each of the silver and gold levels as
7 required by state law and offers at least one qualified dental plan or
8 dental plan approved for sale by the department of financial services
9 and/or the department for individuals age sixty-five and older,
10 provided, however, that the Marketplace may require additional benefit
11 levels to be offered by all insurers participating in the Marketplace;
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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