---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for certain purposes"
description: "Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management of, or ongoing monitoring to guide treatment decisions for, a covered person's disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2023-2024"
identifier: "A 8502"
citation: "New York A 8502 (2023-2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pamela J. Hunter"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-04"
last_action: "2024-02-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0dfeabf-5e0c-4c70-81f5-21896bd0e9ea"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/A8502"
source_hash: "bdfd5d26b11cdb0881299f71dc91393f4d5308f4681313426231f84e8b7dea71"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 8502 (2023-2024) — Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for certain purposes

Requires health insurance policies and medicaid to cover biomarker precision medical testing for diagnosis, treatment, or appropriate management of, or ongoing monitoring to guide treatment decisions for, a covered person's disease or condition when the test has recognized efficacy and appropriateness for such purposes.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A8502** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A8502&term=2023&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **146–2** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **59–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pamela J. Hunter — primary (person)
- Aileen Gunther — cosponsor (person)
- Angelo Santabarbara — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-04** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22** REPORTED
- **2024-01-22** RULES REPORT CAL.4
- **2024-01-22** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.4
- **2024-01-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2024-01-23** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2024-01-23** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8040
- **2024-01-29** 3RD READING CAL.40
- **2024-01-29** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2024-01-29** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2024-02-07** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-07** SIGNED CHAP.29 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a0dfeabf-5e0c-4c70-81f5-21896bd0e9ea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).