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Assembly Bill A10528

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires rental vehicle companies provide for additional liability insurance on rental vehicles

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2025-A10528 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9298
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §311, V & T L

2025-A10528 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires rental vehicle companies provide for additional liability insurance on rental vehicles and have such insurance be primary during each rental period.

2025-A10528 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10528
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring
   rental vehicle companies provide for additional liability insurance on
   rental vehicles
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 311 of the vehicle and traffic law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph (a-1) to read as follows:
   (A-1)  IN  THE  CASE  OF  THE OWNER BEING A RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY, AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED NINETY-SIX-Z OF  THE  GENERAL  BUSINESS
 LAW,  THE  OWNER SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE RENTAL VEHICLE NO LESS THAN THREE
 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH  (A)
 OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION.  A  RENTAL  VEHICLE COMPANY'S LIABILITY INSURANCE
 POLICY, OR ANY OTHER INSTRUMENT USED TO SATISFY THE FINANCIAL  RESPONSI-
 BILITY  REQUIREMENTS  OF  PARAGRAPH  (A)  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, SHALL BE
 PRIMARY DURING EACH RENTAL PERIOD; AND
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15025-01-6

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