Bill Text: NY A03781 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of different premium rates for disability insurance based on gender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to insurance [A03781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03781-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3781

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GLICK, SIMON, CARROLL, FORREST, GONZALEZ-ROJAS --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance

        AN  ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting the impo-
          sition of different rates for premiums for the provision of disability
          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 3215-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3215-a.  Disability insurance premium rates. No insurer offering or
     4  providing individual, group or  blanket  disability  insurance  in  this
     5  state  shall  charge  or  impose  different  rates  for premiums for the
     6  provision of such insurance to individuals insured under  a  policy,  on
     7  the basis of the gender of the insured or insureds.
     8    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     9  ing one year after it shall have become a law, and shall apply to  poli-
    10  cies  and  contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or
    11  after such date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02655-01-3
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