Bill Text: NY S01187 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of different premium rates for disability insurance based on gender.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-03-08 - referred to insurance [S01187 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01187-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1187--A Cal. No. 346 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 8, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading 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. LBD03334-02-2
