Bill Text: NY A06642 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-17 - print number 6642a [A06642 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06642-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6642--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 23, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK, SIMON, CARROLL, FORREST, O'DONNELL, BARN-
          WELL, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on
          Insurance  --  recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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.
                                                                   LBD03334-03-2
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