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PIANY bill tracking recent actions—June 5, 2008

Bill No.

Status

S5076-A
A10462

DeFrancisco/Morelle—Relates to standard fire insurance policies.

An act to amend the Insurance Law and the Civil Practice Law and rules, in relation to standard fire insurance policies.

06/02/08 Passed Senate

S5131
A8891

Fuschillo/Lafayette—Relates to homeowners policies on properties located in areas served by a market assistance program.

An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to homeowners policies on properties located in areas served by a market assistance program.

06/02/08 Passed Senate

S7764
A11194

Seward/Morelle—Relates to the information required in the annual statements of life insurance companies.

An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to the information required in the annual statements of life insurance companies; and to repeal such law relating thereto.

06/02/08 Passed Senate

A5477
S3094

Gottfried, Englebright, Galef, Bing, Powell, Hoyt, Rosenthal/Volker—Provides for reimbursement for nurse practitioner services under certain policies of health insurance including individual and group accident/health.

An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to reimbursement for nurse practitioners.

06/02/08 Passed Assembly

S5800-A
A9181-A

Seward/Morelle—Relates to life insurance contracts by or for the benefit of minors.

An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to life insurance contracts by or for the benefit of minors.

06/03/08 Passed Senate

S7849
A4128

Robach/Perry—Requires employers to provide to employees injured on the job all information necessary to file a workers' compensation claim.

An act to amend the Labor Law, in relation to requiring employers to provide employees who have been injured on the job information pertaining to workers' compensation.

06/03/08 Passed Senate

S7035
A10176

Volker/Burling—Requires a person operating a motor vehicle which has come into physical contact with another object to stop such motor vehicle.

An act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to requiring a person operating a motor vehicle which has come into physical contact with another object to stop such motor vehicle and make sure that the object was not a person.

06/03/08 Passed Senate

S7074

Volker—Requires the burden of proof to be on defendant at restitution hearings.

An act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to restitution hearings.

06/04/08 Passed Senate

S7869
A9876

Skelos/Lafayette—Provides criminal penalties for procuring a fraudulent motor vehicle insurance claim.

An act to amend the Penal Law, in relation to providing criminal penalties for procuring a fraudulent motor vehicle insurance claim.

06/04/08 Passed Senate

S7396
A11067

Libous/Gantt—Requires the driver of a vehicle involved in an accident involving no personal injury or death to move the vehicle to a safe location.

An act to amend the Vehicle and Traffic Law, in relation to removing vehicles from traffic following an accident.

06/04/08 Passed Senate

A3819-A

Gottfried, Glick, Clark, Jacobs, V. Lopez, Ortiz—Requires managed care programs to establish procedures to assure participant access to dental services to which entitled, other than through managed care provider.

An act to amend the Social Services Law, in relation to requiring a managed care program to establish procedures through which participants will be assured access to medical assistance dental services to which they are otherwise entitled, other than through the managed care provider.

06/04/08 Passed Assembly

A8321-B

Gottfried, Eddington—Regulates the scope, manner and THE performance of review of claims by utilization review agents.

An act to amend the Public Health Law and the Insurance Law, in relation to approvals by a utilization review agent.

06/04/08 Passed Assembly

A8322-A

Gottfried, Galef—Relates to fiscal notes required to be contained on retirement bills.

An act to amend the Legislative Law, in relation to fiscal notes required to be contained on retirement bills.

06/04/08 Passed Assembly

A582
S3850

Paulin, Bradley, Benjamin, Delmonte, Fields, Galef, Lavine, Bing, Colton, Rosenthal, Magnarelli, Alessi, T. Gordon, Spano/Flanagan—Requires that, whenever practicable, an agency make information available to the public electronically.

An act to amend the Public Officers Law, in relation to making information that is subject to the Freedom of Information Law accessible electronically.

06/03/08 Passed Senate
06/04/08 Passed Assembly

A9541-A
S2136-A

Cusick, Hyer-Spencer/Hannon—Amends the dates for filing a claim and commencing an action on a bond.

An act to amend the State Finance Law, in relation to amending the date for commencing an action on a bond.

06/04/08 Passed Assembly

A10624

Gottfried, Bradley, Paulin, Titone, Rosenthal, Jacobs, Gunther, Eddington, Lafayette, Fields, Millman, Spano, Young, Jaffee, K. Zebrowski, Cahill, Maisel, Schroeder, Espaillat, Brodsky, Galef, Stirpe—Establishes the clinical trial access and education fund to provide grants for certain services for patients with life-threatening or disabling conditions/diseases.

An act to amend the Public Health Law, in relation to establishing the clinical trial access and education fund.

06/04/08 Passed Assembly

S6940-A
A10481-A

Marcellino/Weisenberg—Prohibits insurance companies from refusing to issue or renew an automobile insurance policy when the motor vehicle to be insured is sued for fire fighting..

An act to amend the Insurance Law, in relation to insuring motor vehicles used for volunteer firefighting.

05/29/08 Passed Senate

S7714
A10688

Padavan/Silver—Relates to the partial abatement of real property taxes.

An act to amend the Real Property Tax Law, in relation to partial abatement of real property taxes.

05/30/08 Delivered to governor

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