Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Aug 13, 2010 |
signed chap.389 |
Aug 03, 2010 |
delivered to governor |
Jun 24, 2010 |
returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.339 substituted for a9471 |
Apr 21, 2010 |
referred to insurance delivered to assembly passed senate |
Mar 24, 2010 |
advanced to third reading |
Mar 23, 2010 |
2nd report cal. |
Mar 22, 2010 |
1st report cal.288 |
Jan 06, 2010 |
referred to insurance |
Apr 27, 2009 |
referred to insurance |
Senate Bill S5110
Signed By Governor2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 46th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
2009-S5110 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A9471
- Law Section:
- Insurance Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §6102, Ins L
2009-S5110 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S5110 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to organization of domes- tic reciprocal insurers PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: To authorize municipal reciprocal insurers to offer full faith and cred- it surety bonds for public officers. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 6102 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 220 of the laws of 1986, amends the qualifications for organization of domestic reciprocal insurers. JUSTIFICATION: One of the fundamental insurance coverages that all municipalities need is full faith and credit bonds for their public officers. This is a required coverage by virtue of Public Officers law, § 11 and 30, and parallel provisions of the Town, Village and General City laws. Failure to acquire such coverage for municipal officials who handle financial transactions of a municipality results in the office being vacated by operation of law. New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal (NYMIR) was licensed in Septem- ber of 1993 by the NYS Insurance Department pursuant to Article 61 of
2009-S5110 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5110 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 27, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- 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 organization of domes- tic reciprocal insurers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 6102 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 220 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as follows: (a) Twenty-five or more persons, firms and corporations, each having the qualifications of subscribers as prescribed in this article, may organize a reciprocal insurer to do any one or more of the basic kinds of insurance set forth in subsection (a) of section four thousand one hundred one of this chapter or, in the alternative, twenty-five or more New York counties, towns, cities, villages, district corporations (as defined in paragraph three of section 2.00 of the local finance law), or school districts and boards of cooperative educational services, each having the qualifications of subscribers as prescribed in this article, may organize statewide municipal reciprocal insurers to provide any one or more of the basic kinds of insurance set forth in subsection (a) of section four thousand one hundred one of this chapter, except workers' compensation and employers' liability, fidelity and surety OTHER THAN OFFICIAL UNDERTAKINGS CONDITIONED FOR THE FAITHFUL PERFORMANCE OF OFFI- CIAL DUTIES AS REFERENCED IN SECTION ELEVEN OF THE PUBLIC OFFICERS LAW AND REQUIRED BY RELATED PROVISIONS OF THE COUNTY, TOWN, AND VILLAGE LAWS, credit and marine and inland marine (except as authorized by the provisions of paragraph two of subsection (b) of section four thousand one hundred two of this chapter) insurance. Such an insurer shall be called, for purposes of this chapter, a "municipal reciprocal insurer" and shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter applicable to a reciprocal insurer, except where the context otherwise requires. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11492-01-9
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