Bill Commons

NY S 5955

substituted

Relates to mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Follow this bill’s action updates (Atom)

Subscribe in a feed reader. The feed covers recorded actions from the last 30 days; Bill Commons may record an action after it happened at the legislature.

Quick answers

Did NY S 5955 pass?

The current status of NY S 5955 is not known from the official record. Latest recorded action (2026-06-02): SUBSTITUTED BY A622C

What is NY S 5955 about?

Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services upon the prescription of a health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice.

Who sponsors NY S 5955?

Kevin S. Parker is the primary sponsor of NY S 5955, joined by 9 cosponsors.

Description

Requires mandatory health insurance coverage for acupuncture services upon the prescription of a health care provider acting within the provider's scope of practice.

Introduced
—
Latest action
2026-06-02 — SUBSTITUTED BY A622C
Bill type
bill
Last updated
—

Sponsors

  • Kevin S. Parkerprimary
  • Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.cosponsor
  • Stephen T. Chancosponsor
  • Cordell Clearecosponsor
  • Leroy Comriecosponsor
  • Jeremy Cooneycosponsor
  • John Liucosponsor
  • Monica Martinezcosponsor
  • Jessica Scarcella-Spantoncosponsor
  • Sam Suttoncosponsor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2026-06-02

    SUBSTITUTED BY A622C

  2. 2026-03-11

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  3. 2026-03-10

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  4. 2026-03-09

    1ST REPORT CAL.487

  5. 2026-03-03

    PRINT NUMBER 5955B

    amendment-passage

  6. 2026-03-03

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE

    amendment-passage,referral-committee

  7. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO INSURANCE

    referral-committee

  8. 2025-05-22

    PRINT NUMBER 5955A

    amendment-passage

  9. 2025-05-22

    AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE

    amendment-passage,referral-committee

  10. 2025-03-04

    REFERRED TO INSURANCE

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

  • Insurance Vote - Version: B

    2026-03-09 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (11)
    • Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.: yes
    • Jake Ashby: yes
    • Jamaal Bailey: yes
    • Jeremy Cooney: yes
    • Nathalia Fernandez: yes
    • Andrew Gounardes: yes
    • Pete Harckham: yes
    • James Sanders Jr.: yes
    • James Skoufis: yes
    • Pamela Helming: yes
    • Thomas F. O'Mara: yes

Related bills

  • substituted-by: A 622C
  • Prior session: S 8011not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 4560not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 5071not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 6038not in this corpus
  • Prior session: S 7636not in this corpus
  • Companion bill: A 622

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S5955?summary=&detail=

Attribution

Data from openstates_bulk_csv, retrieved 2026-07-24T05:28:30.722574Z

Inspect retained evidence for changes recorded after evidence tracking began:

Source and document changesStatus and relationship changes

Session-wide evidence can include changes to other bills:

Bulk imports for this sessionSession dates and activity

Use this data

Every field on this page is available from the free public API — no key or licence required. Fetch this bill as JSON: GET /api/v1/bills?jurisdiction=NY&identifier=S 5955. See the API docs or the MCP server for AI assistants.

Known limitations

  • Sponsor party and chamber affiliation are not yet captured by this API.
  • Committee referrals are not yet captured.

See the methodology page for data sources and limitations.