STATE OF NEW YORK
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5955
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, SALKA, M. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. BARCLAY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insur-
ance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to providing written
notice of premium rate changes not less than sixty days prior to the
effective date of such rate changes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subsection (p) of section 3221 of the insur-
2 ance law, as added by chapter 661 of the laws of 1997, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (4) At the time of coverage renewal, an insurer may modify the health
5 insurance coverage for a group or blanket policy offered to a large or
6 small group policyholder so long as such modification is consistent with
7 this chapter and effective on a uniform basis among all small group
8 policyholders with that policy form; provided, however, the insurer
9 shall provide written notice to all policyholders to which the modified
10 policy shall be offered of any change in premium rates not less than
11 sixty, but not more than one hundred twenty, days prior to the effective
12 date of such rates.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect the first of January next succeeding
14 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.
LBD01991-01-1
