S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
April 10, 2018
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Introduced by M. of A. SKOUFIS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee 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:
Section 1. Paragraph 5 of subsection (f) of section 3420 of the insur-
ance law, as amended by chapter 11 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
read as follows:
(5) This paragraph shall apply to a policy that provides supplementary
uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for bodily injury and
is a policy: (A) issued or delivered in this state that insures against
liability arising out of the ownership, maintenance, and use of a fire
vehicle, as defined in section one hundred fifteen-a of the vehicle and
traffic law, where the fire vehicle is principally garaged or used in
this state, OR A POLICE VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED THIR-
TY-TWO-A OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW; or (B) as specified in para-
graph one of this subsection. Every such policy that insures a fire
department, fire company, as defined in section one hundred of the
general municipal law, an ambulance service, [or] a voluntary ambulance
service, as defined in section three thousand one of the public health
law, OR A POLICE AGENCY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE
OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, shall provide such supplementary
uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage to an individual
employed by or who is a member of the fire department, fire company,
ambulance service, [or] voluntary ambulance service, OR POLICE AGENCY
and who is injured by an uninsured or underinsured motor vehicle while
acting in the scope of the individual's duties for the fire department,
fire company, ambulance service, [or] voluntary ambulance service, OR
POLICE AGENCY covered under the policy, except with respect to the use
or operation by such an individual of a motor vehicle not covered under
the policy.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to poli-
cies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or
after such effective date.
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