New York Assembly Bill A03697 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3697 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred 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 are authorized to be made and 17 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05201-01-5