Requires insurer to respond within thirty days of a written request from an insured for his or her health plan documents, including copies of most recent group or individual contracts.
Authorizes the department of health to implement a community food security, empowerment and economic development program (SEED) to help meet the food needs of low-income people and promote comprehensive responses to local food, farm and nutrition issues; provides grants for the cost of program projects which will be available to non-profit organizations and local governments, with limited partnership with for-profit enterprises; makes related provisions.
Provides for limited death benefit life insurance policies for persons aged 60 and over; authorizes the attorney general to enforce provisions; requires an insurer to provide consumers with a prescribed "Financial Review of Policy" form when it delivers or issues for delivery in this state an insurance policy or a certificate of insurance for persons aged 60 and over.
Provides for the licensing of apartment information vendors; defines such vendors as persons who, for a fee, furnish information concerning the location and availability of rental real property.
Requires insurers which issue contracts providing long term care benefits to maintain records of policies cancelled during each year and requires that such records indicate which policies were cancelled due to, or within thirty days after, an increase in policy premiums.
Provides test preparation for students in the seventh grade and eighth grade intending to apply to take the specialized high school admissions test.
Increases benefits for volunteer firefighters and volunteer ambulance workers.
Prohibits insurers from cancelling life insurance policies based on a medical condition that was disclosed in the application for insurance.
Requires that all electronic tax preparation software offered for sale in the state of New York include a prompt providing a link to users of such software to a New York state voter registration application website.
Prohibits state or local police from accepting military surplus equipment from the federal government.
