Bill Text: NY S05786 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits insurers, providing collision or comprehensive coverage of motor vehicles, from requiring repair shops to use specific vendors or processes for acquisition of vehicle repair parts and materials.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-06-20 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S05786 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05786-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5786
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
June 14, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- 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 collision and compre-
hensive coverage on motor vehicles
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 2610 of the insurance law is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 (a) Whenever a motor vehicle collision or comprehensive loss shall
4 have been suffered by an insured, no insurer providing collision or
5 comprehensive coverage therefor shall require that repairs be made to
6 such vehicle in a particular place or shop or by a particular concern,
7 NOR REQUIRE A REPAIR FACILITY TO USE A SPECIFIC VENDOR OR PROCESS FOR
8 THE PROCUREMENT OF PARTS OR OTHER MATERIALS NECESSARY FOR THE REPAIR OF
9 A MOTOR VEHICLE.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10411-01-3
