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- Referred to insurance
- Returned to senate
- Died in assembly
- Referred to insurance
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1243
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to insurance
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Relates to membership of volunteer fire and volunteer ambulance members in group or blanket accident and health insurance policies
In Assembly Committee · Insurance · Sponsor Joseph Morelle
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5092
Title of bill
An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to membership in group or blanket accident and health insurance policies
Purpose
To require providers of health insurance services to provide health insurance to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers whose public corporation has elected to extend such coverage to them pursuant to section 92-a of the general municipal law.
Summary of provisions
Amends section 3221 of the insurance law to require providers of health insurance services to add members of volunteer fire and ambulance companies to be added to contracts to provide health insurance if a public corporation elects to provide such insurance to such members pursuant to section 92-a of the general municipal law, notwithstanding the fact that such members may not meet the definition of an "employee that may be contained in a contract of insurance between such public corporation and a provider of health insurance services.
Justification
Chapters 331 of the laws of 2008 and Chapter 71 of the Laws of 2009 allowed municipal corporations to allow volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers to participate in their health insurance programs, provided that the volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers paid the total cost of participating in these plans. Since then, several HMOs and insurance companies have refused to extend this coverage to volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers on the grounds that they are not employees of the participating public corporations. This bill corrects this defect in the law.
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Fiscal implications
None
Local fiscal implications
None
Effective date
Immediately
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