S 4674: Allows domestic insurers to make certain records available by electronic means if they are easily accessible from the insurer's principal office in this state and the insurer complies with all applicable state and federal laws and regulations.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4674 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 11, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. JACKSON -- 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 domestic insurers to make certain records available by electronic means The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 325 of the insurance law, as 2 amended by chapter 196 of the laws of 1987, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (a) Every domestic insurer and every licensed United States branch of 5 an alien insurer entered through this state shall, except as hereinafter 6 provided, keep and maintain at its principal office in this state, or 7 through electronic means that provides equivalent access to the super- 8 intendent, its charter and by-laws (in the case of a United States 9 branch a copy thereof) and its books of account, and if a domestic stock 10 corporation a record containing the names and addresses of its share- 11 holders, the number and class of shares held by each and the dates when 12 they respectively became the owners of record thereof, and if a domestic 13 corporation the minutes of any meetings of its shareholders, policyhold- 14 ers, board of directors and committees thereof. If any such records are 15 kept in a language other than English, they shall be accompanied by 16 accurate translations thereof. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03895-02-5