S9941 • 2025

Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation

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Sponsor: Jamaal Bailey
Last action: 2026-06-03
Official status: Senate Floor Calendar
Effective date: Not listed

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Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation

Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation.

What This Bill Does

Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation.

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Bill History

2026-06-03 Senate
SUBSTITUTED BY A5710A
2026-05-06 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-05 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-04 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.889
2026-04-16 Senate
REFERRED TO INSURANCE

Official Summary Text

Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation
Prohibits insurers from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volunteer social service transportation.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          9941

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 16, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- 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  prohibiting  insurers
          from refusing to renew a policy on certain automobiles used for volun-
          teer social service transportation

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

     1    Section 1. Subsection (s) of section 3425 of  the  insurance  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 408 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
     3    (s)  With  respect to automobile insurance, no insurer shall refuse to
     4  issue or renew a covered  individually-owned  private  passenger  policy
     5  solely  on  the  [ground]  GROUNDS  that the motor vehicle to be insured
     6  under such policy shall  be  used  for  volunteer  firefighting  OR  FOR
     7  PERFORMING VOLUNTEER SERVICES FOR A NONPROFIT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION OR
     8  GOVERNMENTAL  AGENCY  CONSISTING OF PROVIDING SOCIAL SERVICE TRANSPORTA-
     9  TION.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law and shall apply to insurance policies issued or deliv-
    12  ered on and after such effective date.






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