Bill Text: NY S00450 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-04-16 - referred to insurance [S00450 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00450-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance

        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.
                                                                   LBD02655-01-3
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