Bill Text: NY A07829 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the Joint Underwriting Association.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-06-18 - substituted by s5236 [A07829 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07829-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        7829--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 5, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced by M. of A. CAHILL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on  Insurance -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to the joint underwriting
         association
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subsection  (g)  of section 5402 of the insurance law, as
    2  amended by section 1 of part W of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2013,  is
    3  amended to read as follows:
    4    (g)  In  addition  to  fire insurance, extended coverage, coverage for
    5  additional perils and homeowners  insurance  should  the  same  be  made
    6  available  through the association in accordance with a determination of
    7  necessity pursuant to section five thousand four hundred twelve of  this
    8  article,  the  association  may  offer broad form coverage to applicants
    9  seeking to insure real property at fixed locations of this state, or the
   10  tangible personal property located thereon. The  association  may  offer
   11  broad  form coverage for a period of ten years beginning on June thirti-
   12  eth, two thousand eight. [The] ON OR BEFORE OCTOBER FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND
   13  SEVENTEEN  THE superintendent shall require the association to report to
   14  him or her [annually during that ten-year period] as to  the  number  of
   15  policies  written  pursuant  to  this  subsection and paragraph three of
   16  subsection (f) of section five thousand four hundred five of this  arti-
   17  cle [in the previous year], and any other information the superintendent
   18  may  require.  [The superintendent shall then report to the governor and
   19  the legislature regarding the number of policies issued pursuant to this
   20  subsection and such paragraph annually for the  first  nine  years  such
   21  coverage is offered.] On or before January first, two thousand eighteen,
   22  the superintendent shall [make a final, cumulative] report to the gover-
   23  nor  and the legislature [which] REGARDING THE NUMBER OF POLICIES ISSUED
   24  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND SUCH PARAGRAPH AND shall include  recommen-
   25  dations as to the continuation of such insurance offerings.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11364-02-3
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