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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3159--A
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 4, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Insurance  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to unfair discrimination
          by insurers for the use of  prescriptions  to  block  the  effects  of
          opioids
 
          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  2617
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  2617.  Unfair  discrimination for the use of prescriptions to block
     4  the effects of opioids. No insurer or entity  authorized  to  issue  the
     5  kinds  of insurance specified in paragraphs one or two of subsection (a)
     6  of section one thousand one  hundred  thirteen  of  this  chapter  shall
     7  refuse  to  issue  a life insurance policy or annuity contract or adjust
     8  the amount of premiums, or rates, charged for life insurance policies or
     9  annuity contracts for any individual solely because such individual  has
    10  been prescribed medication used to block the effects of opioids, includ-
    11  ing,  but  not  limited  to,  Naloxone and Narcan, unless such action is
    12  based on sound actuarial principles or actual or reasonably  anticipated
    13  experience.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08725-03-9