A 895: Requires insurance to cover car seats for newborns.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 895 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FORREST, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to coverage for car seats The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Item (ii) of subparagraph (A) of paragraph 10 of subsection 2 (i) of section 3216 of the insurance law, as added by chapter 56 of 3 the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows: 4 (ii) Maternity care coverage shall also include, at minimum, parent 5 education, assistance and training in breast or bottle feeding, [and] 6 the performance of any necessary maternal and newborn clinical assess- 7 ments, and an initial appropriate child restraint system as defined in 8 subdivision four of section twelve hundred twenty-nine-c of the vehicle 9 and traffic law to be provided upon discharge. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02098-01-5