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Jun 17, 2014 |
referred to insurance delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1445 committee discharged and committed to rules |
Feb 25, 2014 |
referred to insurance |
Senate Bill S6670
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
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2013-S6670 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S6670 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S6670 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to blanket group accident and health insurance coverage PURPOSE: To update the insurance law by expanding existing statutory blanket group eligibility provisions. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill expands the listing of types of eligible groups that could be covered by blanket group accident and health insurance.. These would include, but not be limited to: transportation operators, first aid and civil defense groups, sports teams or camp operators, religious, charitable, recreational, educational or civic organizations, restaurants, hotels, motels, resorts or innkeepers, HMOs, healthcare providers or arrangers of health services, banks, associations and financial institutions, travel agencies or travel service providers, entertainment, theater, arts or event production companies, or any other risk or class of risks approved as eligible by the Superintendent of Financial Services. Section 2 of the bill sets forth the effective date.
2013-S6670 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6670 I N S E N A T E February 25, 2014 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEWARD -- 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 blanket group accident and health insurance coverage THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 4237 of the insurance law, subparagraph (F) of paragraph 3 as amended by chapter 369 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: (a) (1) Any policy or contract of insurance against death or injury resulting from accident which insures a group of persons conforming to the requirements of one of the subparagraphs (A) through [(F)] (M) of paragraph three hereof shall be deemed a blanket accident policy. (2) Any policy or contract which insures a group of persons conforming to the requirements of subparagraph (C), (E) or [(F)] (M) of paragraph three hereof against total or partial disability, excluding such disa- bility from accident, shall be deemed a blanket health insurance policy. (3) Any policy or contract of insurance which combines the coverage of blanket accident insurance and of blanket health insurance on such a group of persons shall be deemed a blanket accident and health insurance policy: (A) Under a policy or contract issued to any railroad, steamship, motorbus or airplane carrier of passengers OR OWNER, OPERATOR OR LESSEE OF ANY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION, which shall be deemed the policyholder, a group defined as all persons who may become such passengers may be insured against death or bodily injury either while, or as a result of, being such passengers. (B) Under a policy or contract issued to an employer, who shall be deemed the policyholder, covering any group of employees defined by reference to [exceptional] hazards incident to [such employment] AN ACTIVITY, ACTIVITIES, OR OPERATIONS OF THE POLICYHOLDER, insuring such employee against death or bodily injury resulting while, or from, being exposed to such [exceptional] hazards. DEPENDENTS OF THE EMPLOYEE AND EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD14141-01-4
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