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legislation/us/states/ny/2021-2022/a-7701.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Improves insurance consumer servicing options"
+description: "Improves insurance consumer servicing options; modernizes the methods of consumer servicing that unauthorized insurers are permitted to use, including servicing by telephone, video call, facsimile, web portal, electronic transfer of funds and other methods approved by the superintendent of financial services."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2021-2022"
+identifier: "A 7701"
+citation: "New York A 7701 (2021-2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["HUNTER"]
+version_count: 1
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2021-05-20"
+last_action: "2021-07-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ee7453f0-1cee-452d-bbdf-e137f90fa4f3"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/A7701"
+source_hash: "052f8c2a08b486b33839d611ffae24c03e5009cf9ddb0357292cc189de5c6837"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York A 7701 (2021-2022) — Improves insurance consumer servicing options
+
+Improves insurance consumer servicing options; modernizes the methods of consumer servicing that unauthorized insurers are permitted to use, including servicing by telephone, video call, facsimile, web portal, electronic transfer of funds and other methods approved by the superintendent of financial services.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A7701** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A7701&term=2021&Text=Y)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote — **63–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- HUNTER — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-05-20** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-25** REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-01** REPORTED
+- **2021-06-01** RULES REPORT CAL.274
+- **2021-06-01** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.274
+- **2021-06-02** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2021-06-02** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2021-06-02** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-03** SUBSTITUTED FOR S5668A
+- **2021-06-03** 3RD READING CAL.1162
+- **2021-06-03** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2021-06-03** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2021-07-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-07-16** SIGNED CHAP.266 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ee7453f0-1cee-452d-bbdf-e137f90fa4f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+