Bill Text: NY A08219 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for certain notices related to property/casualty insurance contracts under the vehicle and traffic law to be delivered by electronic means.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-03-19 - print number 8219a [A08219 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8219

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Insurance

        AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, the vehicle and traffic law and the
          workers' compensation 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, and paragraph (a) of subdivision five of section fifty-four
     8  of the workers' compensation law in a property/casualty insurance trans-
     9  action or that is to serve as evidence  of  property/casualty  insurance
    10  coverage  may  be  delivered by electronic means so long as it meets the
    11  requirements of article three of the state technology  law.  Where  this
    12  chapter  requires that notice be mailed or delivered to an address shown
    13  in the policy, the notice may be delivered by  electronic  means  to  an
    14  electronic address not specified in the policy.
    15    §  2.  Subdivision  1 of section 313 of the vehicle and traffic law is
    16  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
    17    (c) An electronic notice that complies  with  section  three  thousand
    18  four  hundred  fifty-eight  of the insurance law shall be sufficient for
    19  the purposes of this section.
    20    § 3. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 5 of  section  54  of  the  workers'
    21  compensation  law  is  amended by adding a new undesignated paragraph to
    22  read as follows:
    23    An electronic notice that complies with section  three  thousand  four
    24  hundred  fifty-eight  of  the  insurance law shall be sufficient for the
    25  purposes of this section.
    26    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05982-01-3