Bill Text: NY S05249 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to electronic delivery of property/casualty insurance notices and posting property/casualty insurance policies on the internet; authorizes electronic delivery of insurance notices with consent and the posting of policies on the internet if certain conditions are met.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.274 [S05249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S05249-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5249--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 11, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  SEWARD, LARKIN -- 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  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and recommitted to said committee -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to electronic delivery of
          property/casualty  insurance  notices  and  posting  property/casualty
          insurance policies on the internet
          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  3455
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 3455. Electronic notices and documents. (a) As used in this section,
     4  the following words shall have the following meanings:
     5    (1) "Delivered by electronic means" includes:
     6    (A)  delivery  to  an  electronic  mail  address  at which a party has
     7  consented to receive notices or documents; or
     8    (B) posting on an electronic network or site accessible via the inter-
     9  net, mobile application, computer, mobile device, tablet, or  any  other
    10  electronic  device,  together  with separate notice of the posting which
    11  shall be provided by electronic mail to the address at which  the  party
    12  has consented to receive notice or by any other delivery method that has
    13  been consented to by the party.
    14    (2)  "Party" means any recipient of any notice or document required as
    15  part of a property/casualty insurance  transaction,  including  but  not
    16  limited to an applicant, an insured, or a policyholder.
    17    (b) Subject to the requirements of this section, any notice to a party
    18  or   any   other   document   required   under   applicable   law  in  a
    19  property/casualty insurance transaction or that is to serve as  evidence
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10983-06-6