Bill Text: NY S08753 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-10 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S08753 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08753-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8753 IN SENATE May 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LARKIN -- 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 25 or operation by such an individual of a motor vehicle not covered under 26 the policy. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to poli- 28 cies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or 29 after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15304-01-8