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SB 104                                                                       
The Finance Committee considered SENATE BILL NO. 104 An                        
Act relating to regulation and examination of insurers and insurance           
agents; relating to kinds of insurance; relating to payment of                 
insurance taxes and to required insurance reserves; relating to                
insurance policies; relating to regulation of capital, surplus, and            
investments by insurers; relating to hospital and medical service              
corporations; and providing for an effective date and recommended              
it be replaced with                                                            
                                                                               
CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 104(FIN) An Act relating to                             
regulation and examination of insurers and insurance agents; relating          
to kinds of insurance; relating to payment of insurance taxes and to           
required insurance reserves; relating to insurance policies; relating to       
regulation of capital, surplus, and investments by insurers; relating          
to hospital and medical service corporations; relating to the                  
portability and availability of health care insurance; making                  
amendments to the insurance statutes to conform to federal                     
requirements regarding health insurance; relating to the repeal of             
certain small employer health care insurance provisions; repealing             
delayed provisions relating to dental, vision, and hearing insurance           
in secs. 3 and 4, ch. 101, SLA 1992; repealing delayed provisions              
relating to small employer health care insurance in secs. 4, 7, 9, and         
12, ch. 39, SLA 1993; repealing the delayed effective date in sec. 5,          
ch. 101, SLA 1992, and in sec. 13, ch. 39, SLA 1993; and providing             
for an effective date.                                                         
                                                                               
Signing do pass:  Senator Pearce, Cochair.  Signing no                         
recommendation:  Senator Sharp, Cochair, Senators Phillips, Parnell,           
Adams, Torgerson.  Signing amend:  Senator Donley.                             
                                                                               
Fiscal note for the committee substitute published today from                  
Department of Revenue.  Previous zero fiscal note applies to the               
committee substitute.                                                          

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SB 104                                                                       
The bill was referred to the Rules Committee.