Bill Text: NY S08124 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires travel insurance companies to provide refunds for travel cancelled due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-21 - PRINT NUMBER 8124B [S08124 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08124-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8124--A

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 23, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. SANDERS, METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
          Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  require  airlines and travel insurance companies to provide
          refunds for travel cancelled due to coronavirus disease  2019  (COVID-
          19);  and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon the expira-
          tion thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  Notwithstanding article 10-A of the general business law,
     2  section 3452 of the insurance law or any other provision of law  to  the
     3  contrary,  all  travel  insurance companies shall provide a full refund,
     4  without any penalty in the form of deduction of fees and  regardless  of
     5  any contractual cancellation period, to any resident of the state of New
     6  York who cancels travel due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
     7    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately  provided  that the
     8  provisions of this act shall expire and  be  deemed  repealed  upon  the
     9  expiration  of  the  declared  state  of emergency relating to the novel
    10  coronavirus (COVID-19); and provided, further, that  the  superintendent
    11  of financial services shall notify the legislative bill drafting commis-
    12  sion  upon  occurrence of the expiration of the state disaster emergency
    13  declared by executive order number 202 and  any  further  amendments  or
    14  modifications,  and as may be further extended pursuant to section 28 of
    15  the executive law, in order that the commission may maintain an accurate
    16  and timely effective data base of the official text of the laws  of  the
    17  state  of  New  York  in  furtherance  of effectuating the provisions of
    18  section 44 of the legislative law and section 70-b of the  public  offi-
    19  cers law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15975-02-0