Bill Text: NY A10311 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows insurance carriers to offer a discount to drivers who have been trained to operate an authorized emergency vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-22 - referred to insurance [A10311 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10311-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10311

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 22, 2020
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        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Insurance

        AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in  relation  to  allowing  insurance
          carriers to offer a discount to drivers who have been trained to oper-
          ate an authorized emergency vehicle

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 2336 of the insurance law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subsection (i) to read as follows:
     3    (i) A schedule of rates or rating plan for motor vehicle liability and
     4  collision  insurance  submitted to the superintendent may provide for an
     5  appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured, for  a  period
     6  of  time  which  shall be determined by the superintendent, who has been
     7  trained to operate  an  authorized  emergency  vehicle,  as  defined  by
     8  section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law. On or before the
     9  effective  date  of  this subsection, the commissioner of motor vehicles
    10  shall create a form, which shall be posted on the  department  of  motor
    11  vehicles'  website, whereby employers of drivers of authorized emergency
    12  vehicles can affirm that a driver has in fact been trained to operate an
    13  authorized emergency vehicle.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    18  completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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