Bill Text: NY A06867 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibits restrictions on insurance policies based solely on the policyholder harboring or owning any dog of a specific breed or mixture of breeds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-04 - substituted by s7416b [A06867 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06867-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6867--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  L. ROSENTHAL,  LUNSFORD, JACOBSON, SHRESTHA,
          GLICK, EPSTEIN, DAVILA, REYES, BORES -- read once and referred to  the
          Committee  on Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  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  certain
          restrictions as it relates to dog breed

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

     1    Section 1.  The section heading and subsection 1 of  section  3421  of
     2  the  insurance  law,  the section heading as added by chapter 545 of the
     3  laws of 2021 and subsection 1 as amended by chapter 679 of the  laws  of
     4  2022, are amended to read as follows:
     5    Homeowners' liability insurance and renters' insurance; dogs.  1. With
     6  respect  to  homeowners'  insurance  policies  as defined in section two
     7  thousand three hundred fifty-one of this chapter and renters'  insurance
     8  policies as defined in section three thousand four hundred fifty-four of
     9  this  chapter,  no  insurer  shall  refuse to issue or renew, cancel, or
    10  charge or impose an  increased  premium  or  rate  for  such  policy  or
    11  contract,  or  exclude,  limit,  restrict, or reduce coverage under such
    12  policy or contract based solely upon harboring or owning any  dog  of  a
    13  specific breed or mixture of breeds.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law and shall apply to all policies issued, renewed, modi-
    16  fied, altered or amended on or after such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10473-04-4