STATEMENT TO

ASSEMBLY, No. 3802

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator BURGESS)

ADOPTED: FEBRUARY 25, 2025

      This floor amendment clarifies the term “legal insurance”:

      (1)  to mean the assumption of a contractual obligation to provide specified legal services or reimbursement for legal expenses in consideration of a specified payment for an interval of time; and

      (2)  to exclude arrangements through which members prepay for specified legal services, which are available to the members, or their dependents, through an organization that contracts directly with attorneys for the provision of the specified legal services and the organization pays the attorneys fixed, pre-arranged payments and the attorneys receive no additional payment or reimbursement from the organization for the specified legal services or the specified legal expenses.