New York S 239: Prohibits insurers from cancelling a homeowner's liability insurance or renters insurance policy based on the ownership of a specific breed of dog

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S00239 Summary:

BILL NOS00239 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06560

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SPONSORKRUEGER

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COSPNSRBRISPORT, COMRIE, GIANARIS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, RIVERA, SALAZAR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §212, add §837-y, Exec L; amd §656, County L; amd §150, Town L; add §4-a, Chap 360 of 1911

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Relates to the transfer, acceptance, or purchase of military weapons from the United States government; prohibits participation in the 1033 federal excess property program; provides exceptions.

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BILL NOS00239 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 239

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, BRISPORT, COMRIE, GIANARIS, HOYLMAN-SIGAL,
 RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
 be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, the county law, the town law and
 chapter 360 of the laws of 1911 relating to police in certain munici-
 palities, in relation to the transfer, acceptance, or purchase of
 military weapons from the United States government

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 212 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 83
 2 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 212. Equipment. The superintendent is authorized on behalf of the
 4 state to purchase, lease or lease-purchase, within the amounts appropri-
 5 ated therefor, necessary equipment and supplies, including but not
 6 limited to, vehicles and aircraft subject to the approval of the direc-
 7 tor of the budget, and uniforms; when any state property shall become
 8 unfit for use it shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions
 9 of the state finance law. The superintendent, or the superintendent's
 10 deputies, shall not authorize the transfer, acceptance, or purchase of
 11 military weapons from the United States government.
 12 § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-y to
 13 read as follows:
 14 § 837-y. Exceptions to ban on participation in 1033 federal excess
 15 property program. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
 16 contrary, the city of New York and the division of state police shall be
 17 authorized to accept, purchase, or receive military weapons, gear or
 18 machinery from the United States government for the purposes of counter-
 19 terrorism in consultation with the United States department of homeland
 20 security.
 21 § 3. Section 656 of the county law is amended to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00654-01-5

 S. 239 2

 1 § 656. Emergency equipment and apparatus. If, in the protection of
 2 human life and property, the sheriff shall deem it necessary to hire any
 3 equipment or apparatus together with the operator thereof, [he] the
 4 sheriff may hire the same during the period of an emergency or catastro-
 5 phe at a reasonable charge therefor. The same shall be audited and paid
 6 as a county charge in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors,
 7 and in the discretion of such board, there may be a direction that the
 8 further hiring and payment be approved by the [chairman] chair of the
 9 board or of a designated committee of such board. The sheriff, or such
 10 sheriff's deputies, shall not authorize the transfer, acceptance, or
 11 purchase of military weapons from the United States government.
 12 § 4. Subdivision 1 of section 150 of the town law, as amended by chap-
 13 ter 476 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 14 1. The town board of any town may establish a police department and
 15 appoint a chief of police and such officers as may be needed and fix
 16 their compensation. The compensation of such police officers shall be a
 17 town charge; providing however, no assessment on property in any village
 18 within any town or partially within any town shall be made