Senate Bill S1678

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Insurance Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S1678 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7436
Current Committee:
Senate Insurance
Law Section:
Insurance Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3420, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S8753, A10300
2021-2022: S1843, A742
2023-2024: S439, A1178

2019-S1678 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires bodily injury be covered under supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance coverage for police vehicles.

2019-S1678 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1678 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1678
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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:
 
   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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07330-01-9
              

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