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BILL #

CHAPTER #

ISSUE

BILL DESCRIPTION

HB 1001

199

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Imposes new penalties for the theft of automobiles. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1214

416

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Provides that a person operating a moving motor vehicle while reading, manually writing, or sending a message on an electronic wireless communications device is guilty of a traffic infraction. Does not apply to a person operating an authorized emergency vehicle. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1235

126

State regulation

Provides confidentiality to certain insurance commissioner examinations. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1236

127

Financial regulation

Establishes certain capital and surplus requirements necessary to transact insurance. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1244

297

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Defines wages for industrial insurance purposes. Effective: May 2, 2007.

HB 1267

418

Motor vehicle insurance - commercial auto

Relates to commercial drivers license requirements. Effective: January 15, 2007.

HB 1304

419

Motor vehicle insurance - commercial auto

Modifies commercial motor vehicle carrier provisions; finds and declares that it is the policy of the state to prevent the loss of human lives and the loss of property and vehicles, and to protect the traveling environment of the state through sound and consistent regulatory provisions for interstate and intrastate motor carriers. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1344

168

Motor vehicle insurance - auto equipment issue

Provides a window tint exemption for law enforcement vehicles. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1371

372

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offense

Provides that, in the event a parking infraction is issued by a private parking facility and is based on a vehicle's identification, and the registered owner of the vehicle is a rental car business, the parking facility shall provide a written notice of the infraction to the rental car business within thirty days of the infraction date. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1445

197

Public Records

Makes adjustments to the recodification of the Public Records Act. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1500

172

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Modifies provisions on permanent partial disability claims. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1501

255

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Concerns adjustments to industrial insurance total disability compensation reductions. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 1953

258

Motor vehicle insurance - auto coverage issues

Requires premium reductions for older insureds completing an accident prevention course; provides that an eight-hour course meeting the criteria of the department of licensing may be offered via an alternative delivery method of instruction, which may include internet, video, or other technology-based delivery methods. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 2034

393

Motor vehicle insurance -- miscellaneous

Provides a civil cause of action for victims of motor vehicle theft; allows a person who is deprived of his or her motor vehicle because of a violation of to file an action in superior court against the perpetrator for the recovery of actual damages. Requires the Department of Licensing to suspend the driver's license or driving privilege of a defendant until any monetary obligation is paid in full. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 2105

134

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Requires payment of prescription drugs for industrial insurance medical aid claims for initial visits; provides that the department for state fund claims shall pay, in accordance with the department's fee schedule, for any alleged injury for which a worker files a claim, any initial prescription drugs provided in relation to that initial visit, without regard to whether the worker's claim for benefits is allowed. Effective: January 1, 2008.

HB 2130

474

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Provides a means to determine "prior offenses" to implement provisions of existing law related to driving under the influence. Effective: July 1, 2007.

HB 2135

425

Motor vehicle insurance -- miscellaneous

Expands lemon law coverage to out-of-state consumers. Effective: July 22, 2007.

HB 2158

135

Motor vehicle insurance -- miscellaneous

Concerns the sales of vehicles and associated services to nonresidents. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5037

417

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic safety

Restricts the use of a wireless communications device while operating a moving motor vehicle. Effective: July 1, 2008.

SB 5042

80

State regulation

Makes various changes to the Insurance Code. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5050

426

Motor vehicle insurance -- miscellaneous

Modifies the mileage tolling calculating in the motor vehicle lemon law. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5052

74

Motor vehicle insurance - auto equipment issues

Provides that no insurer may administer auto glass claims by contract with a third-party administrator if the third-party administrator directly or indirectly engages in the auto glass business, which business includes the repair, replacement, and retailing of auto glass but not the claim administration process. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5053

281

Workers' compensation-- state oversight

Creates the Office of the Ombudsman for workers of industrial insurance self-insured employers; requires that any ombudsman authorized shall have training or experience. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5078

83

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic safety

Implements rules for drivers when approaching stationary emergency vehicles and police vehicles on highways having less than four lanes. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5088

423

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Declares that it is a traffic infraction for a driver of a motor vehicle intending to board a state ferry to block a residential driveway while waiting to board the ferry or move in front of another vehicle in a queue already waiting to board the ferry without the authorization of a state ferry system employee. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5134

86

Motor vehicle insurance - traffic offenses

Authorizes police officers to impound vehicles operated by drivers without specially endorsed licenses. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5206

140

Motor vehicle insurance - auto equipment issues

Provides that a vehicle may be equipped year-round with tires that have retractable studs if the studs retract pneumatically or mechanically to below the wear bar of the tire when not in use and the retractable studs are engaged only between November 1st and April 1st. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5250

96

Motor vehicle insurance -- miscellaneous

Requires that, by January 1, 2008, the department shall create a document that allows the seller of a vehicle to release his or her interest in a vehicle at the same time a bank notifies the department that a lien against a vehicle has been released. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5263

32

Tort reform - medical malpractice

Modifies medical malpractice closed claim reporting requirements; declares that instances in which a claim is not reported by an insuring entity include, but are not limited to, situations in which the insuring entity contends that it cannot be regulated. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5273

97

Motor vehicle insurance - enforcement issues

Revises motorcycle driver's license endorsement and education provisions. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5290

282

Workers' compensation - fund management

Establishes industrial insurance medical and chiropractic advisory committees. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5443

77

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Provides that employers shall not engage in the suppression of industrial insurance claims for their employees; provides that claim suppression is defined as expressly or repeatedly inducing employees to fail to report injuries, inducing employees to treat injuries in the course of employment as off-the-job injuries, or otherwise acting to suppress legitimate industrial claims. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5675

284

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Increases minimum industrial insurance benefits. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5676

190

Workers' compensation - benefits, claims and authorized treatments

Revises provision for receipt of temporary total disability. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5688

78

Workers' compensation - fund management

Modifies who may receive industrial insurance claimants' notices, orders, or warrants. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5715

117

Producer licensure - licensing requirements

Concerns persons selling, soliciting, or negotiating insurance. Effective: July 1, 2009.

SB 5717

82

Market conduct

Establishes a framework for the Commissioner's market conduct actions, including processes and systems for identifying, assessing, and prioritizing market conduct problems that have a substantial adverse impact on consumers, policyholders, and claimants. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5726

498

Bad faith laws

Creates the Insurance Fair Conduct Act and provides that an insurer engaged in the business of insurance may not unreasonably or negligently deny a claim for coverage or payment of benefits to any insured. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5826

499

Identity theft - security freeze

Modifies consumer credit report provisions. Effective: September 1, 2008.

SB 5910

119

Tort reform - medical malpractice

Declares that the notice of intent to commence a medical malpractice action shall be given by regular mail, registered mail, or certified mail with return receipt requested, by depositing the notice, with postage prepaid, in the post office addressed to the defendant. Effective: July 22, 2007.

SB 5919

153

Fees

Provides relief from retaliatory taxes on insurance premium taxes. Effective: July 22, 2007.