STATE OF NEW YORK
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2731--A
Cal. No. 573
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Insur-
ance -- recommitted to the Committee on Insurance in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee,
ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the insurance law and the vehicle and traffic law, in
relation to electronic delivery of notices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 3458 of the insurance law, as
2 amended by chapter 161 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 (b) Subject to the requirements of this section, any notice to a party
5 or any other document required under this chapter, paragraph (c) of
6 subdivision one of section three hundred thirteen of the vehicle and
7 traffic law in a property/casualty insurance transaction or that is to
8 serve as evidence of property/casualty insurance coverage may be deliv-
9 ered by electronic means so long as it meets the requirements of article
10 three of the state technology law. Where this chapter requires that
11 notice be mailed or delivered to an address shown in the policy, the
12 notice may be delivered by electronic means to an electronic address not
13 specified in the policy.
14 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 313 of the vehicle and traffic law is
15 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
16 (c) An electronic notice that complies with section three thousand
17 four hundred fifty-eight of the insurance law shall be sufficient for
18 the purposes of this section.
19 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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