Bill Text: NY A06902 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits insurers, providing collision or comprehensive coverage of motor vehicles, from requiring repair shops to use specific vendors or processes for acquisition of vehicle repair parts and materials.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to insurance [A06902 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06902-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6902 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, MAGNARELLI, MONTESANO, COOK, COLTON, ZEBROWSKI, WEPRIN, GUNTHER, ABINANTI, JEAN-PIERRE, STECK -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. DiPIETRO, McDONOUGH, PEOPLES-STOKES, J. RIVERA, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insur- ance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to collision and compre- hensive coverage on motor vehicles 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 2610 of the insurance law is 2 amended to read as follows: 3 (a) Whenever a motor vehicle collision or comprehensive loss shall 4 have been suffered by an insured, no insurer providing collision or 5 comprehensive coverage therefor shall require that repairs be made to 6 such vehicle in a particular place or shop or by a particular concern, 7 nor require a repair facility to use a specific vendor or process for 8 the procurement of parts or other materials necessary for the repair of 9 a motor vehicle. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10821-01-1
