New York Senate Bill S05723 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5723 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 15, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 allowing insurance carriers to offer a discount to drivers who have been trained to oper- ate an authorized emergency vehicle The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2336 of the insurance law is amended by adding a 2 new subsection (i) to read as follows: 3 (i) A schedule of rates or rating plan for motor vehicle liability and 4 collision insurance submitted to the superintendent may provide for an 5 appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured, for a period 6 of time which shall be determined by the superintendent, who has been 7 trained to operate an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined by 8 section one hundred one of the vehicle and traffic law. On or before the 9 effective date of this subsection, the commissioner of motor vehicles 10 shall create a form, which shall be posted on the department of motor 11 vehicles' website, whereby employers of drivers of authorized emergency 12 vehicles can affirm that a driver has in fact been trained to operate an 13 authorized emergency vehicle. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 15 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 16 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 17 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 18 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01345-02-3