S 771: Increases the number of properties eligible for the coastal market assistance program to include properties located within one mile off the shore of the Hudson River.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 771 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MAYER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to increasing the number of properties eligible for the coastal market assistance program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 5414 of the insurance law, as 2 amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the insurance law 3 relating to increasing the number of properties eligible for the coastal 4 market assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5 8320-A and A. 9821, is amended to read as follows: 6 (c) The association shall administer the coastal market assistance 7 program. The association may, subject to approval of the superintendent, 8 adopt reasonable eligibility standards for participation in the coastal 9 market assistance program. At a minimum, properties eligible for the 10 program shall be located within one mile of the shore. For purposes of 11 this section, shore shall mean salt-water ocean, sound, bay, inlet, Lake 12 Erie, Lake Ontario, the Saint Lawrence River, the Hudson River, or the 13 Niagara River with distance measured from mean high water. The associ- 14 ation may adopt additional or more expansive eligibility standards for 15 participation in the coastal market assistance program. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 17 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the insurance law 18 relating to increasing the number of properties eligible for the coastal 19 market assistance program, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 20 8320-A and A. 9821, takes effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02912-01-5