Bill Text: NY A05017 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to assessments to defray operating expenses of the department of financial services; removes indirect costs from the assessments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-13 - held for consideration in insurance [A05017 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A05017-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5017
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 14, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  M. of A. BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, LOSQUADRO, TENNEY -- read
         once and referred to the Committee on Insurance
       AN ACT to amend the financial services law, in relation  to  assessments
         to defray operating expenses of the department of financial services
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subsection (a) of section 206 of  the  financial  services
    2  law,  as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011,
    3  is amended to read as follows:
    4    (a) For each fiscal year commencing on or after April first, two thou-
    5  sand  [twelve]  THIRTEEN,  assessments  to  defray  operating  expenses,
    6  including  all  direct  [and  indirect] costs, of the department, except
    7  expenses incurred in the liquidation of banking organizations, shall  be
    8  assessed  by  the  superintendent  in  accordance  with this subsection.
    9  Persons regulated under the insurance  law  shall  be  assessed  by  the
   10  superintendent  for  the  operating  expenses of the department that are
   11  solely attributable to regulating persons under the insurance law, which
   12  shall include any expenses that  were  permissible  to  be  assessed  in
   13  fiscal  year  two  thousand  nine-two thousand ten, with the assessments
   14  allocated pro rata upon all domestic insurers and  all  licensed  United
   15  States  branches  of  alien  insurers domiciled in this state within the
   16  meaning of paragraph four of subsection (b) of  section  seven  thousand
   17  four  hundred  eight  of  the  insurance law, in proportion to the gross
   18  direct premiums and other considerations, written or received by them in
   19  this state during the calendar year ending December  thirty-first  imme-
   20  diately preceding the end of the fiscal year for which the assessment is
   21  made  (less  return premiums and considerations thereon) for policies or
   22  contracts of insurance covering property or risks resident or located in
   23  this state the issuance  of  which  policies  or  contracts  requires  a
   24  license from the superintendent. Persons regulated under the banking law
   25  shall  be  assessed  by the superintendent for the operating expenses of
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD05011-02-3
       A. 5017                             2
    1  the department that are solely attributable to regulating persons  under
    2  the  banking  law  in  such proportions as the superintendent shall deem
    3  just and reasonable. Operating expenses of the department not covered by
    4  the  assessments set forth above shall be assessed by the superintendent
    5  in such proportions as the superintendent shall deem just and reasonable
    6  upon all domestic insurers and all licensed United  States  branches  of
    7  alien  insurers  domiciled in this state within the meaning of paragraph
    8  four of subsection (b) of section seven thousand four hundred  eight  of
    9  the  insurance law, and upon any regulated person under the banking law,
   10  other than mortgage loan originators, except as  otherwise  provided  by
   11  sections one hundred fifty-one and two hundred twenty-eight of the work-
   12  ers'  compensation  law and by section sixty of the volunteer firefight-
   13  ers' benefit law. The provisions of this subsection shall not be  appli-
   14  cable  to  a  bank  holding  company, as that term is defined in article
   15  three-A of the banking law. Persons regulated under the banking law will
   16  not be assessed for expenses that the superintendent  deems  to  benefit
   17  solely  persons regulated under the insurance law, and persons regulated
   18  under the insurance law will not  be  assessed  for  expenses  that  the
   19  superintendent deems to benefit solely persons regulated under the bank-
   20  ing law.
   21    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
   22  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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