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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