Bill Text: NY A02255 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the placement of an insured in the motor vehicle insurance assigned risk plan based upon any accident arising from such insured's operation of a motor vehicle while responding to an emergency as a firefighter, police officer or member of a first aid squad.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to insurance [A02255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02255-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2255
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. WEPRIN -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. MILLER
         -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law,  in  relation  to  placement  to  the
         assigned risk plan
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 2335-a of the insurance law, as  added  by  chapter
    2  152 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  2335-a. Prohibition [of] AGAINST rate increases AND PLACEMENT IN AN
    4  ASSIGNED RISK PLAN for persons involved in emergency use of vehicles. No
    5  insurer authorized to transact or transacting business in this state, or
    6  controlling or controlled by or under  common  control  by  or  with  an
    7  insurer  authorized  to  transact or transacting business in this state,
    8  which sells a policy providing motor vehicle liability insurance  cover-
    9  age  in  this state shall increase the policy premium in connection with
   10  the insurance permitted or required by this chapter OR SHALL  PLACE  ANY
   11  INSURED  TO  THE  MOTOR VEHICLE INSURANCE ASSIGNED RISK PLAN ESTABLISHED
   12  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE FIFTY-THREE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  solely  because  the
   13  insured  or  any  other  person  who  customarily operates an automobile
   14  covered by the policy has had an accident while operating a motor  vehi-
   15  cle in response to an emergency, where the insured was either responding
   16  to  a  call  to duty as a paid or volunteer member of any police or fire
   17  department or first aid squad; or was performing any other  function  on
   18  behalf of the state, any political subdivision thereof, a public author-
   19  ity,  public  benefit  corporation,  or any other governmental agency or
   20  instrumentality in a public emergency.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03797-01-3
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