Bill Text: NY A00342 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes insurance premium reductions for non-commercial private passenger vehicles equipped with retrofitted daytime running lamps; requires commissioner to promulgate by rule, qualifications and standards for the installation of such lamps.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to insurance [A00342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00342-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          342
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. MAGNARELLI, CAHILL, BOYLAND, BENEDETTO, FINCH --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY,  KOLB,  LIFTON,  MAGEE,  McDO-
         NOUGH, MILLMAN, OAKS, PEOPLES-STOKES, RIVERA -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Insurance
       AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to authorizing insurance
         premium reductions for private  passenger  vehicles  retrofitted  with
         daytime running lamps
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subsection (g) of section 2336 of  the  insurance  law,  as
    2  added by chapter 362 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
    3    (g)  Any  schedule or rating plan for non-commercial private passenger
    4  automobile insurance shall, WITH RESPECT TO  AUTOMOBILES  EQUIPPED  WITH
    5  FACTORY  INSTALLED DAYTIME RUNNING LAMPS, AND MAY, WITH RESPECT TO AUTO-
    6  MOBILES EQUIPPED WITH RETROFITTED DAYTIME RUNNING  LAMPS,  also  provide
    7  for  an  actuarially appropriate reduction in premium charges for bodily
    8  injury liability, property damage liability, personal injury protection,
    9  medical payments and collision coverage  [with  respect  to  automobiles
   10  equipped  with  factory  installed  daytime running lamps (DRL)].   SUCH
   11  RETROFITTED LAMPS SHALL BE DESIGNED TO REDUCE  ACCIDENTS  BY  INCREASING
   12  VEHICLE VISIBILITY AND MUST BE APPROVED BY THE SUPERINTENDENT.  FURTHER,
   13  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  SHALL,  AFTER  CONSULTING  WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF
   14  MOTOR VEHICLES, PROMULGATE BY RULE QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS FOR  THE
   15  INSTALLATION OR RETROFITTING OF SUCH LAMPS.
   16    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   17  ing the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to  all
   18  policies issued, renewed or amended on or after such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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