Committee: INSURANCE - Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for screening, tests, assessments and treatment including any medically necessary care for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder, including Asperger's disorder and pervasive developmental disorders. Requires health insurance policies to provide coverage for screening, tests, assessments and treatment including any medically necessary care for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder, including Asperger's disorder and pervasive developmental disorders.

Sponsor: Rules (Magee) Committee: INSURANCE -

Committee: INSURANCE - Permits certain agreements by domestic mutual insurance corporations.

Committee: INSURANCE - Removes requirement for advertisements referring to an insurer to include the insurer's full name and principle office and makes technical corrections relating thereto.

Sponsor: Lavine Committee: INSURANCE - Relates to youth drug and alcohol detoxification; authorizes approved applicant to petition family court for the review by a physician of a youth for possible drug and alcohol detoxification; provides appeal process by youth; provides benefits for treatment of chemical dependency in certain health insurance plans; defines the term "youth".

Sponsor: Cusick Committee: INSURANCE - Enacts provisions providing sponsored group personal insurance and allows such insurance to be written by authorized insurers.

Committee: INSURANCE - Relates to procurement of insurance coverage.

Committee: INSURANCE - Requires every health insurer to provide insureds with a method to bypass the automated telephone answering service of such insurer and to speak directly with a representative.

Committee: INSURANCE - Relates to reimbursement by insurers for ambulatory services.

Committee: INSURANCE - Relates to the coverage of hospice services and palliative care for HEALTHY NY insurance policies.

Committee: INSURANCE - Creates the Innocent Uncompensated Motorist Accident Fund to compensate motor vehicle owners involved in an accident caused by persons and equipment engaged in highway work.

Committee: INSURANCE - Grants lower insurance rates and civil immunity to bars that transaction scan for proof of age and provide free transportation to the home of an intoxicated person.

Committee: INSURANCE - Relates to credit default insurance companies.

Committee: INSURANCE - Grants the superintendent of insurance the power to suspend the requirement of a mortgage guaranty insurer to maintain a minimum policyholder surplus in relation to its outstanding risk in order for the insurer to write a new business.

Committee: INSURANCE - Requires group and blanket health and accident insurers to provide 30 days prior written notice to insureds of the termination of such insurance coverage; extends the conversion privilege to forty-five days after notice of termination is received by the employee; requires notice of termination of coverage to be mailed by the insurer to each certificate holder's last known residential address.

Committee: INSURANCE - Limits superintendent of insurance from allowing rate increases above five percent for certain hospital service corporations; excludes medicare supplement insurance from the rate-setting provisions of this section; repeals provisions relating to minimum loss ratio.

Sponsor: Meng Committee: INSURANCE -

Committee: INSURANCE - Enacts the Suffolk county insurance consortium act which enables the county of Suffolk to enter into cooperative agreements with school districts, towns, and villages located within such county to pay for the provision of health care services to their employees, without being subject to the provisions of article 47 of the insurance law; further permits the county of Suffolk to charge an administrative fee for such participation in such cooperative agreement.

Sponsor: Gunther Committee: INSURANCE - Requires insurance coverage for the HALO breast pap test to detect risk of developing breast cancer.

Committee: INSURANCE - Provides that an approved policy form that has been revised may continue to be delivered or issued for delivery in NYS without further approval from the superintendent.