BILL NUMBER: S9815
SPONSOR: KRUEGER
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to requiring insurers to
deposit certain funds into the reproductive health care access fund; to
amend the state finance law, in relation to establishing the reproduc-
tive health care access fund; and to amend the public health law, in
relation to the use of funds under the reproductive freedom and equity
grant program
 
PURPOSE:
To provide for the transfer of segregated funds that will be appropri-
ated to the reproductive freedom and equity grant program to cover the
cost of abortion clinical care in New York
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Amends the Insurance law by adding a new section 3246
Section 2: Amends the State Finance law by adding a new section 99-uu
Section 3: Amends subdivision 3 of section 2599-bb-1 of the Public
Health law by adding a new paragraph (c)
Section 4: Provides for specified appropriations to be included in the
Executive Budget starting in 2029.
Section 5: Provides for a severability clause
Section 6: Establishes the effective date
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Reproductive health care practitioners in New York provide needed
abortion and related reproductive health care services with limited
resources. Providers have been subject to an increasingly tumultuous
federal landscape placing additional strain on their limited resources
and capacity to provide care.
This legislation would provide for transfer of surplus funds that
Marketplace insurance providers have been required to place in segre-
gated accounts to cover the cost of abortion clinical care in New York,
but which remain unused. Segregated funds would be transferred into the
Reproductive Health Care Access Fund, from which appropriations would be
made to the Reproductive Freedom and Equity Grant Program so that the
surplus funds are used for their congressionally-designated purpose.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
To be determined
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect January 1, 2027

Statutes affected:
S9815: 2599-bb-1 public health law, 2599-bb-1(3) public health law