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HB 31 Automobile, commercial liability, and homeowners insurance policies; notices.
Introduced by: Jackson H. Miller | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
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 and is identical to SB 192.
FULL TEXT
- 11/18/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 16100926D pdf | impact statement
- 02/15/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB31ER) pdf | impact statement
- 02/23/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004) pdf
HISTORY
- 11/18/15 House: Prefiled and ordered printed with emergency clause; offered 01/13/16 16100926D
- 11/18/15 House: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 01/14/16 House: Reported from Commerce and Labor (21-Y 0-N)
- 01/15/16 House: Read first time
- 01/18/16 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 01/19/16 House: Read third time and passed House BLOCK VOTE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE (98-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/16 House: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by House
- 01/19/16 House: Passed House BLOCK VOTE (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/19/16 House: VOTE: BLOCK VOTE PASSAGE #2 (99-Y 0-N)
- 01/20/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 01/20/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor
- 02/08/16 Senate: Reported from Commerce and Labor (11-Y 0-N)
- 02/10/16 Senate: Read second time
- 02/11/16 Senate: Read third time
- 02/11/16 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/16 House: Enrolled
- 02/15/16 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB31ER)
- 02/15/16 House: Signed by Speaker
- 02/15/16 Senate: Signed by President
- 02/16/16 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on 2/16/16
- 02/16/16 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline Midnight, February 23, 2016
- 02/23/16 Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 4 (effective 2/23/16)
- 02/23/16 Governor: Acts of Assembly Chapter text (CHAP0004)