Bill Text: NY A05617 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 5617 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to licensing of independent insurance adjusters by waiving requirements regarding a written examination if the applicant holds a claim certification from a national or state-based claims association.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-01 - print number 5617a [A05617 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05617-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5617--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Insurance  -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to licensing of independ-
          ent adjusters

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subsection (f) of section 2108 of the insur-
     2  ance law is amended to read as follows:
     3    (1)  The  superintendent shall, in order to determine the trustworthi-
     4  ness and competency to act as an independent adjuster of each individual
     5  applicant for such license, and of each proposed sub-licensee, except in
     6  the case of a renewal license, require every such individual to take and
     7  pass, to the satisfaction of  the  superintendent,  a  personal  written
     8  examination. The superintendent may prescribe the types of written exam-
     9  inations according to the kind or kinds of insurance claims [which] that
    10  the  applicant  is  to  be licensed to investigate and adjust.  The exam
    11  requirement shall be waived for individuals  holding  a  claims  certif-
    12  ication  issued  by a national or  state-based claims association with a
    13  certification program that consists of at least  forty hours of pre-exam
    14  coursework, a proctored exam of sufficient length to  adequately  deter-
    15  mine the competency of the individual, and twenty-four hours of continu-
    16  ing  education required for  certification renewals on a biennial basis,
    17  subject to the approval of the superintendent.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03578-04-2