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2016 SESSION

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Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor

Chairman: Frank W. Wagner

Clerk: John Garrett
Staff: Frank Munyan
Date of Meeting: January 18, 2016
Time and Place: 15 minutes after Adjournment Senate Room B
Note change in Start time

S.B. 192 Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices.

Patron: Stuart

Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices. Restores the ability of insurers, when sending certain types of notices, including notice of cancellation or nonrenewal of a motor vehicle, commercial liability, or homeowners insurance policy, to use mailing methods for which a certificate of mailing is obtained from the United States Postal Service, provided that certificates of bulk mail are not permissible. The measure also clarifies that Intelligent Mail barcode Tracing is a permitted first-class mail tracking method and clarifies that insurers are required to maintain records regarding the sending of such notices for one year, regardless of the method used to send the notice. The bill contains an emergency clause.

EMERGENCY

S.B. 209 State Corporation Commission; insurance assessments.

Patron: Alexander

State Corporation Commission; insurance assessments. Authorizes the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to recover omitted assessments pertaining to its regulation of insurers for the most recent three years. The measure also establishes a procedure for an aggrieved insurer to apply to the SCC for a correction of the assessment and for a refund.

S.B. 210 Automobile clubs; repeals provisions relating to licensure and operations.

Patron: Alexander

Automobile clubs. Repeals provisions relating to the licensure and operations of automobile clubs. Requirements are deleted regarding the authority of insurance agents to negotiate automobile club contracts on behalf of licensed automobile clubs and the issuance of guaranteed arrest bond certificates by an automobile club or association.

S.B. 374 Financial institutions; references to federal law.

Patron: Chafin

Financial institutions; references to federal law. Updates references to the Federal Reserve Board and its regulations that were made obsolete by the federal Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which, among other changes, transferred rulemaking authority under the Truth in Lending Act and the Electronic Fund Transfers Act to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

S.B. 474 Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party.

Patron: Wagner

Workers' compensation; recovering damages from other party. Expands the type of persons against whom an injured employee may bring a cause of action to recover damages for injury, occupational disease, or death to include statutory coemployees. The measure provides that a determination of whether a person is a stranger to the employer's work shall be made without regard to whether the person was performing work that is part of the trade, business, or occupation of the injured employee's employer. The measure affirms that an "other party" shall not include the injured employee's employer or a fellow employee.

S.B. 599 Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; report.

Patron: Petersen

Virginia Electronic Communications Privacy Act; report.