Senate Bill S1943

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases the minimum insurance coverage requirements for motor vehicles rented or leased in the state

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation 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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2021-S1943 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2501
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§311, 312 & 345, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S7597, A10000
2013-2014: S1911, A3435
2015-2016: S910, S7900, A2766
2017-2018: S4301, A8532
2019-2020: S568, A3904
2023-2024: S7408, A2551

2021-S1943 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the minimum insurance coverage requirements for motor vehicles rented or leased in the state.

2021-S1943 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1943 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1943
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation  to  increasing
   the  minimum insurance coverage requirements for motor vehicles rented
   or leased in the state of New York

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 4 of section 311 of the vehi-
 cle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 305 of the laws of  1995,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) Affording coverage as defined in the minimum provisions prescribed
 in  a  regulation  which  shall  be promulgated by the superintendent at
 least ninety days prior to effective date of this act.  The  superinten-
 dent  before  promulgating  such  regulations  or any amendment thereof,
 shall consult with all insurers licensed to write  automobile  liability
 insurance in this state and shall not prescribe minimum provisions which
 fail  to  reflect the provisions of automobile liability insurance poli-
 cies, other than motor vehicle liability policies as defined in  section
 three  hundred  forty-five  of this chapter, issued within this state at
 the date of such regulation or amendment thereof.  Nothing contained  in
 such  regulation  or  in  this  article  shall prohibit any insurer from
 affording coverage under an owner's policy of liability  insurance  more
 liberal  than  that  required  by  said minimum provisions.   Every such
 owner's policy of liability insurance shall provide insurance subject to
 said regulation against loss from  the  liability  imposed  by  law  for
 damages,  including  damages  for  care and loss of services, because of
 bodily injury to or death of any person and injury to or destruction  of
 property arising out of the ownership, maintenance, use, or operation of
 a specific motor vehicle or motor vehicles within the state of New York,
 or  elsewhere  in  the United States in North America or the Dominion of
 Canada, subject to a  limit,  exclusive  of  interest  and  costs,  with
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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