Bill Text: NY S01678 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires bodily injury be covered under supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for police vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S01678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01678-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1678
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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  supplementary  unin-
          sured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies
          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 chapter 11 of the laws of 2013,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (5) This paragraph shall apply to a policy that provides supplementary
     5  uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for bodily injury and
     6  is  a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this state that insures against
     7  liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, and use of  a  fire
     8  vehicle,  as defined in section one hundred fifteen-a of the vehicle and
     9  traffic law, where the fire vehicle is principally garaged  or  used  in
    10  this state, or a police vehicle, as defined in section one hundred thir-
    11  ty-two-a  of  the  vehicle and traffic law; or (B) as specified in para-
    12  graph one of this subsection.   Every such policy that  insures  a  fire
    13  department,  fire  company,  as  defined  in  section one hundred of the
    14  general municipal law, an ambulance service, [or] a voluntary  ambulance
    15  service,  as  defined in section three thousand one of the public health
    16  law, or a police agency, as defined in section eight hundred thirty-five
    17  of   the   executive   law,    shall    provide    such    supplementary
    18  uninsured/underinsured  motorist  insurance  coverage  to  an individual
    19  employed by or who is a member of the  fire  department,  fire  company,
    20  ambulance  service,  [or]  voluntary ambulance service, or police agency
    21  and who is injured by an uninsured or underinsured motor  vehicle  while
    22  acting  in the scope of the individual's duties for the fire department,
    23  fire company, ambulance service, [or] voluntary  ambulance  service,  or
    24  police  agency  covered under the policy, except with respect to the use
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07330-01-9
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     1  or operation by such an individual of a motor vehicle not covered  under
     2  the policy.
     3    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to poli-
     4  cies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended  on  or
     5  after such effective date.