File #: Int 1050-2024    Version: Name: Limiting the amount of personal injury insurance coverage that the taxi and limousine commission may require for licensed vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 9/26/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to limiting the amount of personal injury insurance coverage that the taxi and limousine commission may require for licensed vehicles
Sponsors: Carmen N. De La Rosa, Diana I. Ayala, Chris Banks, Chi A. Ossé, Christopher Marte, Crystal Hudson, Nantasha M. Williams, Lincoln Restler, Shekar Krishnan, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Althea V. Stevens, Sandy Nurse, Justin L. Brannan, Julie Menin, Keith Powers , Eric Dinowitz, Rita C. Joseph, Gale A. Brewer, Erik D. Bottcher, Susan Zhuang, Amanda Farías, Mercedes Narcisse, Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, James F. Gennaro, Shaun Abreu, Kevin C. Riley, Oswald Feliz, David M. Carr, Inna Vernikov, (in conjunction with the Queens Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 31
Summary: This bill would prohibit the Taxi and Limousine Commission from requiring the vehicles it licenses to have personal injury protection (also known as no-fault) liability coverage in an amount greater than 200 percent of the amount required by state law.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1050-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1050, 3. Int. No. 1050, 4. September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - September 26, 2024, 7. Committee Report 2/10/25, 8. Hearing Testimony 2/10/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 2/10/25, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 12. Proposed Int. No. 1050-A - 6/4/25, 13. Committee Report 6/11/25, 14. Int. No. 1050-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 15. Int. No. 1050-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 16. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 17. June 11, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
6/11/2025ACarmen N. De La Rosa City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/11/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/11/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/11/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/11/2025ACarmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/10/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/10/2025*Carmen N. De La Rosa Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/26/2024*Carmen N. De La Rosa City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1050-A

 

By Council Members De La Rosa, Ayala, Banks, Ossé, Marte, Hudson, Williams, Restler, Krishnan, Gutiérrez, Sanchez, Stevens, Nurse, Brannan, Menin, Powers, Dinowitz, Joseph, Brewer, Bottcher, Zhuang, Farías, Narcisse, Rivera, Louis, Gennaro, Abreu, Riley, Feliz, Carr and Vernikov (in conjunction with the Queens Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to limiting the amount of personal injury insurance coverage that the taxi and limousine commission may require for licensed vehicles

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-557 to read as follows:

§ 19-557 Personal injury insurance coverage for licensed vehicles. The commission shall not require an owner of a licensed vehicle to maintain personal injury insurance coverage for the expenses specified in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (a) of section 5102 of the insurance law in an amount that exceeds 200 percent of the amount of personal injury insurance coverage for such expenses required by state law. This section does not prohibit any person from voluntarily purchasing personal injury insurance coverage for a licensed vehicle in excess of such amount.

§ 2. This local law takes effect March 1, 2026.

EH/MC

LS #17099

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