Bill Text: NY A08503 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to supplementary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies; removes provisions of law relating to self-insurance; amends the effective date to remove contracts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - signed chap.30 [A08503 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08503-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8503

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 4, 2024
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        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Insurance

        AN  ACT  to  amend the insurance law, in relation to supplementary unin-
          sured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies;  and  to
          amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance law and the
          vehicle  and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured and unde-
          rinsured motorist coverage for police agencies, as proposed in  legis-
          lative bills numbers S. 439 and A. 1178, in relation to the effective-
          ness thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insur-
     2  ance law, as amended by a chapter of  the  laws  of  2023  amending  the
     3  insurance  law  relating  to  supplementary  uninsured  and underinsured
     4  motorist coverage for police agencies, as proposed in legislative  bills
     5  numbers S.  439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as follows:
     6    (5)  This  paragraph  shall apply to [self-insurance or] a policy that
     7  provides supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance  cover-
     8  age  for  bodily injury and is a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this
     9  state that insures against liability arising out of the ownership, main-
    10  tenance, and use of a fire vehicle, as defined in  section  one  hundred
    11  fifteen-a  of  the  vehicle  and  traffic law, where the fire vehicle is
    12  principally garaged or used in this  state,  or  a  police  vehicle,  as
    13  defined  in  section one hundred thirty-two-a of the vehicle and traffic
    14  law, where the police vehicle is principally garaged  or  used  in  this
    15  state;  or  (B) as specified in paragraph one of this subsection.  Every
    16  such policy that insures a fire department, fire company, as defined  in
    17  section  one hundred of the general municipal law, an ambulance service,
    18  a voluntary ambulance service, as defined in section three thousand  one
    19  of  the  public  health  law,  or a police agency, as defined in section
    20  eight hundred thirty-five of  the  executive  law,  shall  provide  such
    21  supplementary  uninsured/underinsured  motorist  insurance  coverage [no
    22  less than the bodily  injury  liability  insurance  limits  of  coverage
    23  provided  under  such  policy]  to an individual employed by or who is a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  member of the fire department, fire company, ambulance  service,  volun-
     2  tary  ambulance service, or police agency and who is injured by an unin-
     3  sured or underinsured motor vehicle while acting in  the  scope  of  the
     4  individual's  duties  for  the  fire department, fire company, ambulance
     5  service, voluntary ambulance service, or police agency covered under the
     6  policy, except with respect to the use or operation by such an  individ-
     7  ual of a motor vehicle not covered under the policy.
     8    § 2. Section 4 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance
     9  law  and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured
    10  and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies, as  proposed  in
    11  legislative  bills  numbers  S.   439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as
    12  follows:
    13    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply  to  poli-
    14  cies [and contracts] issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or
    15  after such effective date.
    16    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    17  the provisions of section one of this act shall take effect on the  same
    18  date  and  in  the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
    19  the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplemen-
    20  tary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for  police  agencies,
    21  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 439 and A. 1178, takes
    22  effect.