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                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 5, 2024
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation  to  supplementary  unin-
   sured  and  underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies; and to
   amend a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance law and the
   vehicle and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured and  unde-
   rinsured  motorist coverage for police agencies, as proposed in legis-
   lative bills numbers S. 439 and A. 1178, in relation to the effective-
   ness thereof
 
   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  a  chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the
 insurance law  relating  to  supplementary  uninsured  and  underinsured
 motorist  coverage for police agencies, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S.  439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as follows:
   (5) This paragraph shall apply to [self-insurance or]  a  policy  that
 provides  supplementary uninsured/underinsured motorist insurance cover-
 age for bodily injury and is a policy: (A) issued or delivered  in  this
 state that insures against liability arising out of the ownership, main-
 tenance,  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 thirty-two-a of the vehicle  and  traffic
 law,  WHERE  THE  POLICE  VEHICLE IS PRINCIPALLY GARAGED OR USED IN THIS
 STATE; or (B) as specified in paragraph 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,
 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  [no
 less  than  the  bodily  injury  liability  insurance limits of coverage
 provided under such policy] to an individual employed by  or  who  is  a
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 member  of  the fire department, fire company, ambulance service, volun-
 tary ambulance service, or police agency and who is injured by an  unin-
 sured  or  underinsured  motor  vehicle while acting in the scope of the
 individual's  duties  for  the  fire department, fire company, ambulance
 service, voluntary ambulance service, or police agency covered under the
 policy, except with respect to the use or operation by such an  individ-
 ual of a motor vehicle not covered under the policy.
   § 2. Section 4 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the insurance
 law  and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplementary uninsured
 and underinsured motorist coverage for police agencies, as  proposed  in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S.   439 and A. 1178, is amended to read as
 follows:
   § 4. 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.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the provisions of section one of this act shall take effect on the  same
 date  and  in  the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
 the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law relating to supplemen-
 tary uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for  police  agencies,
 as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 439 and A. 1178, takes
 effect.