Bill Text: NY A07255 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that no increase in premium rates for long-term care insurance in an amount in excess of 25 percent in one year shall be effective without authorization by concurrent resolution of the senate and assembly.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to insurance [A07255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07255-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7255
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     April 18, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M. of A. KOLB -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance
        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to increases  in  premium
          rates for long-term care insurance
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1117 of the insurance law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subsection (h) to read as follows:
     3    (h)  No  request  for  an increase in premium rates for long-term care
     4  insurance which has been approved by the superintendent in an amount  in
     5  excess of twenty-five percent in one year shall be effective unless such
     6  premium  rate  increase  has been authorized by concurrent resolution of
     7  the senate and assembly.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
     9  policies  and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on
    10  or after such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11090-01-9
feedback