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A 4693: Requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified March 4, 2026

What A 4693 does, verified March 4, 2026

The proposed law requires health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services, including detoxification and rehabilitation services. Coverage for detoxification must be at a minimum of seven days, while rehabilitation services must be at a minimum of thirty days. These requirements apply to various sections of the Insurance Law, including sections related to mental health and substance abuse treatment. The law takes effect thirty days after it becomes a law.

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Last action: referred to insurance (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to insurance
Feb. 04, 2025referred to insurance
Latest bill textIntroduced version, February 4, 2025 · 459 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4693 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SEMPOLINSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring health insurance coverage for substance use disorder treatment services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 30 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the 2 insurance law, as amended by section 5 of subpart A of part BB of chap- 3 ter 57 of the laws of 2019, is amended by adding a new subparagraph (H) 4 to read as follows: 5 (H) Coverage provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall 6 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 7 minimum, thirty days. 8 § 2. Paragraph 31 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the insurance 9 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (K) to read as follows: 10 (K) Coverage provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall 11 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 12 minimum, thirty days. 13 § 3. Paragraph 6 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance 14 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (H) to read as follows: 15 (H) Coverage provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall 16 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 17 minimum, thirty days. 18 § 4. Paragraph 7 of subsection (l) of section 3221 of the insurance 19 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (K) to read as follows: 20 (K) Coverage provided under this paragraph for detoxification, shall 21 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 22 minimum, thirty days. 23 § 5. Subsection (k) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by 24 adding a new paragraph 8 to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07530-01-5 

 A. 4693 2 1 (8) Coverage provided under this subsection for detoxification, shall 2 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 3 minimum, thirty days. 4 § 6. Subsection (l) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by 5 adding a new paragraph 11 to read as follows: 6 (11) Coverage provided under this subsection for detoxification, shall 7 be at a minimum, seven days. Rehabilitation services shall be, at a 8 minimum, thirty days. 9 § 7. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. 

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