S09941 Summary:
| BILL NO | S09941 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS A05710-A |
| SPONSOR | BAILEY |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §3425, Ins L | |
| Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation. | |
S09941 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9941 IN SENATE April 16, 2026 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volun- teer social service transportation The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (s) of section 3425 of the insurance law, as 2 added by chapter 408 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows: 3 (s) With respect to automobile insurance, no insurer shall refuse to 4 issue or renew a covered individually-owned private passenger policy 5 solely on the [ground] grounds that the motor vehicle to be insured 6 under such policy shall be used for volunteer firefighting or for 7 performing volunteer services for a nonprofit charitable organization or 8 governmental agency consisting of providing social service transporta- 9 tion. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 11 have become a law and shall apply to insurance policies issued or deliv- 12 ered on and after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09933-03-6