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legislation/us/states/ny/2025-2026/a-979.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to contractual liability insurance policies"
+description: "Relates to contractual liability insurance policies; provides that each provider may maintain a maximum of five service contract reimbursement insurance policies insuring its service contracts actively offered."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "A 979"
+citation: "New York A 979 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jen Lunsford"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 14
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-08"
+last_action: "2025-10-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3721e5ef-ddc9-444c-bd9a-d820e849d2d0"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A979"
+source_hash: "47fd8d91ea8da99e529fa124e20ccc8f445ce6bc9e7e4a99aefe11680c92ae17"
+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 979 (2025-2026) — Relates to contractual liability insurance policies
+
+Relates to contractual liability insurance policies; provides that each provider may maintain a maximum of five service contract reimbursement insurance policies insuring its service contracts actively offered.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **A979** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A979&term=2025&Text=Y)
+2. **A979A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2025/A979A)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower
+- Floor Vote - Version: A — **62–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jen Lunsford — primary (person)
+- David Weprin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-08** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-15** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO INSURANCE `amendment-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-15** PRINT NUMBER 979A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-13** REPORTED
+- **2025-05-15** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.142
+- **2025-05-20** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2025-05-20** DELIVERED TO SENATE
+- **2025-05-20** REFERRED TO INSURANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-09** SUBSTITUTED FOR S5048A
+- **2025-06-09** 3RD READING CAL.1448
+- **2025-06-09** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2025-06-09** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2025-10-09** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-10-16** SIGNED CHAP.441 `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3721e5ef-ddc9-444c-bd9a-d820e849d2d0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
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