STATE OF NEW YORK
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3587
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 25, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, MONTGOMERY, PARKER, PERKINS -- read twice
and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to maintaining a database
of certain foreign language services as required by federal health
care reform laws
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3102 of the insurance law is amended by adding a
2 new subsection (g) to read as follows:
3 (g) Foreign language services database requirement. The provider of
4 any insurance policy required under the United States Patient Protection
5 and Affordable Care Act (Pub. L. No. 111-148, 124 Stat. 119 (2010)) and
6 the United States Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
7 (Pub. L. No. 111-152, 124 Stat. 1029 (2010)) to provide foreign language
8 services shall maintain a database, available to every customer, client
9 or insured individual under such provider's policies. Such database
10 shall contain the name, location, specialty and languages spoken by
11 doctors, physicians and other health care providers covered by such
12 insurance provider's policies.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
14 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
15 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
16 tation of this act on its effective date is authorized to be made on or
17 before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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