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PIANY past President John Parsons II, CIC, CPIA, AAI, met with Tatiana Parker, constituent services and grant administrator, for Sen. Rachel May, D-53; and Anthony Stackhnik-Taylor, legislative director, and Issac Smith, chief of staff, for Assemblyman John Salka, R-121; and Craig Swiecki, legislative director, for Assemblyman William B. Magnarelli, D-129.

Through these smaller district meetings, PIANY's representatives had the opportunity to meet one-one-one with legislators and their staffs to discuss PIANY's 2022 legislative initiatives. PIANY works tirelessly on behalf of independent agents, their businesses and the consumers and businesses they serve for the passage of a comprehensive legislative agenda for 2022.

The 2022 legislative agenda included several important consumer issues including:

• allow carriers to waive photo verification;
• simplify the requirements of agents and brokers placing business in the state’s excess-line marketplace;
• repeal of the anti-arson application requirement in New York City;
• standardize the definition of windstorm;
• protect consumers from carrier “bait-and-switch” activities;
• authorizing the NYSIF to pay commissions to licensed brokers; and
• oppose statutory bad faith.