Prohibits insurers from refusing to issue or renew, cancel, or charge or impose an increased premium for homeowners' insurance policies based on the breed of a dog owned.

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A3507A-2011 Actions

• Jun 20, 2012: REFERRED TO RULES
• Jun 20, 2012: delivered to senate
• Jun 20, 2012: passed assembly
• Jun 14, 2012: ordered to third reading rules cal.173
• Jun 14, 2012: rules report cal.173
• Jun 14, 2012: reported
• Jun 11, 2012: reported referred to rules
• Apr 26, 2012: reported referred to codes
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to insurance
• Jun 10, 2011: print number 3507a
• Jun 10, 2011: amend and recommit to codes
• May 24, 2011: reported referred to codes
• Jan 25, 2011: referred to insurance

A3507A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                   3507--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 25, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M. of A. GLICK, SWEENEY, O'DONNELL, ENGLEBRIGHT, COLTON,
    McDONOUGH, WEPRIN, MILLMAN -- read once and referred to the  Committee
    on  Insurance  --  reported  and referred to the Committee on Codes --
    committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
    recommitted to said committee

  AN  ACT  to amend the insurance law, in relation to prohibiting insurers
    from canceling, refusing to issue or renew, or charging higher  premi-
    ums for homeowners' insurance based on the breed of dog owned

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. The insurance law is amended by adding a new  section  3421
  to read as follows:

    S  3421.  HOMEOWNERS'  LIABILITY  INSURANCE;  DOGS. 1. WITH RESPECT TO
  HOMEOWNERS' INSURANCE POLICIES AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO THOUSAND  THREE
  HUNDRED  FIFTY-ONE  OF THIS CHAPTER, NO INSURER SHALL REFUSE TO ISSUE OR
  RENEW, CANCEL, OR CHARGE OR IMPOSE AN INCREASED PREMIUM OR RATE FOR SUCH
  POLICY OR CONTRACT BASED SOLELY UPON HARBORING OR OWNING ANY  DOG  OF  A
  SPECIFIC BREED OR MIXTURE OF BREEDS.
    2.  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT PROHIBIT AN INSURER FROM
  REFUSING TO ISSUE OR RENEW OR FROM CANCELING ANY SUCH CONTRACT OR  POLI-
  CY,  NOR FROM IMPOSING A REASONABLY INCREASED PREMIUM OR RATE FOR SUCH A
  POLICY OR CONTRACT BASED UPON THE DESIGNATION OF A DOG OF ANY  BREED  OR
  MIXTURE  OF  BREEDS  AS  A DANGEROUS DOG PURSUANT TO SECTION ONE HUNDRED
  TWENTY-THREE OF THE AGRICULTURE AND MARKETS LAW, BASED ON  SOUND  UNDER-
  WRITING  AND ACTUARIAL PRINCIPLES REASONABLY RELATED TO ACTUAL OR ANTIC-
  IPATED LOSS EXPERIENCE SUBJECT TO THE APPLICABLE PROVISIONS  OF  SECTION
  THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS ARTICLE.
    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
  have become a law and shall apply to all policies issued, renewed, modi-
  fied, altered or amended on or after such effective date.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD01916-04-1