Bill Text: NY S01715 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits animal insurance policies from limiting or excluding pre-existing conditions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO INSURANCE [S01715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01715-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1715

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 limiting or  excluding
          pre-existing conditions in animal insurance policies

          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  3462
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  3462. Pre-existing conditions in animal insurance policies.  Animal
     4  insurance policies shall not contain any exclusion  or  limitation  with
     5  respect to pre-existing conditions of any animal.
     6    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
     7  this act shall apply to insurance contracts  issued  or  renewed  on  or
     8  after  such  effective date, and shall apply at the next required policy
     9  period, commencing on or after such  date,  to  any  insurance  contract
    10  written prior to the effective date of this act.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04591-01-3