Bill Text: NY S01678 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits animal insurance policies from limiting or excluding pre-existing conditions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S01678 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S01678-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1678 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2021 ___________ 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 limiting or excluding pre-existing conditions in animal insurance policies 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 3457 2 to read as follows: 3 § 3457. Pre-existing conditions in animal insurance policies. Animal 4 insurance policies shall not contain any exclusion or limitation with 5 respect to pre-existing conditions of any animal. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that 7 this act shall apply to insurance contracts issued or renewed on or 8 after such effective date, and shall apply at the next required policy 9 period, commencing on or after such date, to any insurance contract 10 written prior to the effective date of this act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06007-01-1
