STATE OF NEW YORK
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661
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GIANARIS, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting the impo-
sition of different rates for premiums for the provision of disability
insurance
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new section 3215-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3215-a. Disability insurance premium rates. No insurer offering or
4 providing individual, group or blanket disability insurance in this
5 state shall charge or impose different rates for premiums for the
6 provision of such insurance to individuals insured under a policy, on
7 the basis of the gender of the insured or insureds.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
9 ing one year after it shall have become a law, and shall apply to poli-
10 cies and contracts issued, renewed, modified, altered or amended on or
11 after such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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