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Authorizes The Life Insurance Company Guaranty Corporation to incorporate resolution facilities

Authorizes The Life Insurance Company Guaranty Corporation to incorporate resolution facilities in connection with the rehabilitation or liquidation of an impaired or insolvent domestic life…

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Prohibits accelerated payment of death benefits or special surrender value pursuant to a life insurance policy because of residency in a nursing home

Prohibits accelerated payment of death benefits or special surrender value pursuant to a life insurance policy because of residency in a nursing home for 3 months or more by the person whose life is…

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the listing of group policyholders in a directory

Relates to the listing of group policyholders in a directory.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Relates to licensing and authorizing new lines of insurance; repealer

Relates to licensing and authorizing new lines of insurance; requires independent adjusters to complete pre-licensing and continuing education courses.

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Enacts the automobile fraud prevention act of 2010

Enacts the automobile fraud prevention act of 2010.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Relates to notice to proposed rate adjustments for individual and small group health insurance policies

Relates to notice to proposed rate adjustments for individual and small group health insurance policies.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Eliminates the board of fire underwriters; repealer

Eliminates the board of fire underwriters.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Enacts the "Ambrose-Searles move over act"

Enacts the "Ambrose-Searles move over act" which requires every operator of a motor vehicle to exercise due care to avoid colliding with an authorized emergency vehicle which is parked, stopped or…

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Provides for the certification of and qualifications for dentists practicing oral and maxillofacial surgery

Provides for the certification of and qualifications for dentists practicing oral and maxillofacial surgery; includes such dentist within provisions of law regulating office-based surgery; provides…

Joseph MorelleHigher Education Committee

Increases from $1,000 to $2,000 the property damage threshold after which a motor vehicle accident report must be filed with the commissioner of motor vehicles

Prohibits insurers from imposing a surcharge for accidents where the property damage does not exceed two thousand dollars and where no physical injury resulted.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Relates to qualified trusts and qualified reserve credits; repealer

Relates to qualified trusts and qualified reserve credits.

Joseph MorelleRules Committee

Relates to the amendment of the subscribers agreements of reciprocal insurers

Enacts provisions relating to reciprocal insurers having a corporate attorney-in-fact wholly owned by subscribers at the reciprocal insurers.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Relates to brewer's licenses

Relates to brewer's licenses.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Authorizes municipal reciprocal insurers to offer full faith and credit surety bonds for public officers

Authorizes municipal reciprocal insurers to offer full faith and credit surety bonds for public officers.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Establishes a physicians and surgeons data collection and advisory association

Establishes a physicians and surgeons data collection and advisory association to compile physicians and surgeons medical malpractice exposure, loss and expense statistics related to medical…

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Relates to group life and group accident and health insurance policies

Relates to group life and group accident and health insurance policies; revises certain provisions relating to minimum participation requirements by employees in group life and certain group…

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Reserve investments of a domestic insurer shall include shares, share certificates and share draft accounts issued by credit unions up to certain amounts

Provides that reserve investments of a domestic insurer shall include shares, share certificates and share drafts accounts issued by credit unions not to exceed the amount which are assumed,…

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Clarifies the state's obligation to make payments with respect to certain lands

Clarifies the state's obligation to make payments with respect to certain lands acquired by the department of environmental conservation.

Joseph MorelleReal Property Taxation Committee

Requires a sticker or label to be affixed to any tire identifying the creation date of any tire

Requires a sticker or label to be affixed to any tire being sold in the state identifying the creation date and manufacturer of any tire.

Joseph MorelleTransportation Committee

Exempts large commercial insureds from certain rate and policy form requirements

Exempts large commercial insureds from certain rate and policy form requirements.

Joseph MorelleRules Committee

Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing

Requires registered professional nurses to attain a baccalaureate degree in nursing within ten years of their initial licensure; provides exemptions for those currently licensed or enrolled in…

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Congratulating Chris "Cito" Culver upon the occasion of his first-round selection by the New York Yankees

Joseph MorelleAdopted

Adopted

Requires that accident and health insurance policies shall provide coverage for screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder

Requires that individual accident and health insurance policies shall provide coverage for screening, diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Relates to the sale of monuments and memorials

Relates to the sale of monuments and memorials.

Joseph MorelleRules Committee

Requires massage therapists to complete thirty-six hours of continuing education each registration period

Requires massage therapists to complete thirty-six hours of continuing education each registration period.

Joseph MorelleOn the Assembly floor

Eliminates the twenty million dollar cap on civic facilities authorized to be financed by industrial development agencies and authorities

Relates to funding of certain civic facilities by industrial development agencies.

Joseph MorelleLocal Governments Committee

Authorizes the dispensing of a supply of more than 72 hours of therapeutic contact lenses

Authorizes the dispensing of a supply of vision corrective or non-corrective contact lenses.

Joseph MorelleHigher Education Committee

Relates to structured settlements

Provides that a claimant shall have a claimant's structured settlement broker to objectively review the terms of the agreement and ensure that they are in the best interests of the claimant.

Joseph MorelleJudiciary Committee

Relates to establishing the New York state telehealth/telemedicine act

Promotes the development, provision and accessibility of telehealth/telemedicine services in New York state; establishes a telehealth/telemedicine research grant fund.

Joseph MorelleHealth Committee

Authorizes the superintendent of insurance to suspend the risk to capital requirement for writing new mortgage guaranty insurance risks

Grants the superintendent of insurance the power to suspend the requirement of a mortgage guaranty insurer to maintain a minimum policyholder surplus in relation to its outstanding risk in order for…

Joseph MorelleRules Committee

Relates to offenses relating to possession or sale of fireworks, sparkling devices and ammunition

Relates to offenses relating to possession or sale of fireworks and ammunition and registration requirements for the manufacturing, distributing and sale of sparklers.

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Removes requirement for advertisements referring to an insurer to include the insurer's full name and principal office

Removes requirement for advertisements referring to an insurer to include the insurer's full name and principle office and makes technical corrections relating thereto.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Relates to guaranteed asset protection waivers in motor vehicle leasing and installment sales

Relates to guaranteed asset protection waivers in motor vehicle leasing and installment sales.

Joseph MorelleJudiciary Committee

Relates to file-sharing applications

Adds provisions relating to computer file-sharing applications.

Joseph MorelleConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Relates to procurement of insurance coverage

Relates to procurement of insurance coverage.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Establishes a distinctive license plate for the deaf and hearing-impaired

Establishes a distinctive license plate for the deaf and hearing-impaired; defines terms; creates the New York state deaf and hearing-impaired fund.

Joseph MorelleStricken

Relates to credit default insurance companies; repealer

Relates to credit default insurance companies.

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Eliminates price controls on health club contracts: annual and limited duration tennis

Eliminates price controls on health club contracts: annual and limited duration tennis.

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Memorializing Governor David A. Paterson to proclaim May 2010 as Better Hearing and Speech Month in the State of New York

Joseph MorelleAdopted

Adopted

Enacts provisions to reduce the incidence of motor vehicle insurance fraud

Grants the superintendent of insurance authority to investigate fraudulent activities, such as motor vehicle operators who drive with no insurance coverage, and those who misrepresent their…

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process

Provides for the establishment of a biennial budgeting system for the state of New York replacing the state annual budget process.

Joseph MorelleJudiciary Committee

Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services licensed under article 30 of the public health law

Authorizes payments to nonparticipating or nonpreferred providers of ambulance services licensed under article 30 of the public health law.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Requires certain food establishments to provide nutritional information to its customers

Requires certain food establishments to provide nutritional information to their customers.

Joseph MorelleConsumer Affairs And Protection Committee

Enacts a balanced budget requirement and creates the New York state governmental accounting review board

Enacts a balanced budget requirement and creates the New York state governmental accounting review board.

Joseph MorelleWays And Means Committee

Establishes a visor card for the deaf and hard of hearing

Establishes a visor card for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Joseph MorelleTransportation Committee

Increases the fines for certain handicapped parking violations

Increases the maximum fine for unauthorized off-street parking in a space designated for the handicapped from seventy-five dollars to one hundred dollars for the first offense and the minimum fine…

Joseph MorelleCodes Committee

Requires the NYS health foundation and state insurance fund to file annual audited financial statements with the office of the state comptroller

Requires the New York state health foundation and the state insurance fund to file annual audited financial statements with the office of the state comptroller.

Joseph MorelleInsurance Committee

Provides for the issuance by an assessor of a receipt for the submission of an application for the STAR exemption, and for provision of a postpaid envelope

Provides for the issuance by an assessor of a receipt for the submission of an application for the STAR exemption, upon request of the applicant; requires the applicant to provide a self-addressed,…

Joseph MorelleSigned by Governor

Signed into law