S 7731: Requires insurance coverage of a hospitalized birthing parent's interhospital transport to accompany such birthing parent's newborn infant experiencing a condition necessitating transport.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7731 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 2, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Women's Issues AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring coverage of a hospitalized birthing parent's interhospital transport to accompany their infant needing such transport The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph 10 of subsection (i) of section 3216 of the 2 insurance law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (C) to read as 3 follows: 4 (C) Coverage provided under this paragraph for maternity care shall 5 include coverage for an interhospital transfer of a hospitalized birth- 6 ing parent to accompany such birthing parent's newborn infant experienc- 7 ing a condition necessitating transport. 8 § 2. Paragraph 5 of subsection (k) of section 3221 of the insurance 9 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (C) to read as follows: 10 (C) Coverage provided under this paragraph for maternity care shall 11 include coverage for an interhospital transfer of a hospitalized birth- 12 ing parent to accompany such birthing parent's newborn infant experienc- 13 ing a condition necessitating transport. 14 § 3. Subsection (c) of section 4303 of the insurance law is amended by 15 adding a new paragraph 3 to read as follows: 16 (3) Coverage provided under this subsection for maternity care shall 17 include coverage for an interhospital transfer of a hospitalized birth- 18 ing parent to accompany such birthing parent's newborn infant experienc- 19 ing a condition necessitating transport. 20 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 21 it shall have become a law and shall apply to all policies and contracts 22 issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or after such effective 23 date. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of 24 any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on 25 its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before 26 such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09179-01-5