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Feb 05, 2015 |
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Assembly Bill A4656
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
COLTON
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
Actions
co-Sponsors
Michael Benedetto
Aileen Gunther
Steven Cymbrowitz
Steven Englebright
multi-Sponsors
Peter Abbate
Gary Finch
Thomas McKevitt
Crystal Peoples-Stokes
2015-A4656 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-A4656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4656 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 5, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, BENEDETTO, GUNTHER, CYMBROWITZ, ENGLE- BRIGHT, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, FINCH, McDO- NOUGH, McKEVITT, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAIA, SALADINO, THIELE, ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Insurance AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to premium reductions for motor vehicle liability, comprehensive and collision insurance THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 2336 of the insurance law, as amended by chapter 751 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows: (a) Any schedule of rates or rating plan for motor vehicle liability and collision insurance submitted to the superintendent shall provide for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for any insured for a three year period after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident prevention course, known as the national safety council's defensive driving course, or any driver improvement course approved by the depart- ment of motor vehicles as being equivalent to the national safety coun- cil's defensive driving course, provided that, except as provided in article twelve-C of the vehicle and traffic law, there shall be no reduction in premiums for a self instruction defensive driving course or a course which does not provide for actual classroom instruction for a minimum number of hours as determined by the department of motor vehi- cles. Such reduction in premium charges shall be subsequently modified to the extent appropriate, based upon analysis of loss experience statistics and other relevant factors. All such accident prevention courses shall be monitored by the department of motor vehicles and shall include components of instruction in "Road Rage" awareness and in "Work Zone Safety" awareness as defined by the commissioner of motor vehicles. The provisions of this section shall not apply to attendance at a program pursuant to article twenty-one of the vehicle and traffic law as EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06449-02-5
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