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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9711--B
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 27, 2012
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. MORELLE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on  Insurance  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
          referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to the Committee
          on Rules
 

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  insurance  law, in relation to a health savings
          account pilot program and providing for the repeal of such  provisions
          upon the expiration thereof
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new  section  1124
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  1124. Managed care health savings account. (a) A health maintenance
     4  organization certified pursuant to  article  forty-four  of  the  public
     5  health  law may offer a group high deductible health plan, as defined in
     6  paragraph two of subsection c of section two hundred twenty-three of the
     7  internal revenue code in conjunction with a health reimbursement account

     8  or a health savings account established pursuant  to  federal  tax  law,
     9  when:
    10    (1)  The employer group purchasing the high deductible plan is a muni-
    11  cipality, and
    12    (2) The employer is obligated to contribute, pursuant to a  collective
    13  bargaining agreement or other binding arrangement with its employees, an
    14  amount  at  least  equal  to  the  deductible required under the plan on
    15  behalf of each enrolled employee.
    16    (b) A high deductible health plan offered pursuant to  subsection  (a)
    17  of  this  section,  which  otherwise  meets  the requirements of article
    18  forty-four of the public health law, shall be deemed to provide  compre-
    19  hensive  health  services  and  shall not be disapproved due to its cost

    20  share arrangement.
    21    (c) A municipality for purposes of this section means a town.
    22    (d) A health maintenance organization  offering  the  high  deductible
    23  health  plan pursuant to this section shall report to the superintendent
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15062-04-2
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     1  and commissioner of health the number of covered lives  under  the  high
     2  deductible  health  plan  offered  pursuant  to this section compared to
     3  similar non-high deductible health  plans,  the  premiums  of  the  high

     4  deductible  health  plan  offered  pursuant  to this section compared to
     5  similar non-high deductible health plans, the  claims  experience  under
     6  the  high  deductible  health  plan  offered  pursuant  to  this section
     7  compared to similar non-high deductible  health  plans,  and  any  other
     8  pertinent  information that may be required by the superintendent or the
     9  commissioner of health prior to April first, two thousand fourteen.
    10    (e) The provisions of  this  section  shall  only  apply  to  coverage
    11  offered pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement entered into prior
    12  to the effective date of this section.
    13    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
    14  31, 2015 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be  deemed

    15  repealed.