Bill Text: NY A01260 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to alternative forms of identification for renters insurance, including a municipal identification card, or other state or local government-issued identification card, or a notarized copy of the rental lease signed by the property owner, the property management firm and the insured.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to insurance [A01260 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01260-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1260

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ, BURDICK, SIMON, McDONOUGH, GLICK, WEPRIN,
          DILAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to alternative  forms  of
          identification for renters insurance

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new  section  3423
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3423.  Renters  insurance;  alternative  forms  of  identification.
     4  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter or any other law  to
     5  the  contrary,  every  insurer  issuing a policy or contract for renters
     6  insurance as defined by section thirty-four hundred fifty-four  of  this
     7  article,  shall accept, in lieu of a social security number, a municipal
     8  identification card, or other state or local government-issued identifi-
     9  cation card. The insurer may also require, as proof of identity, a nota-
    10  rized copy of the rental lease signed by the property owner, the proper-
    11  ty management firm and the insured.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03388-01-5