2002-05-06                     Senate Journal                      Page 3177
HB 246                                                                                            
The Labor and Commerce Committee considered CS FOR HOUSE                                            
BILL NO. 246(JUD) "An Act relating to regulation of a person                                        
providing insurance for the cost of medical care, to confidentiality of                             
insurance records, to insurance hearings, to insurance fees, to annual                              
and quarterly statements by insurers, to managed care insurance, to                                 
taxes on insurance, to insurer certificates of authority, to risk based                             
capital for insurers, to unauthorized and nonadmitted insurers, to                                  
surplus lines insurance, to health insurance, to life insurance, to                                 
annuity insurance, to consumer credit insurance, to insurer liquidation,                            
to multiple employer welfare arrangements, to the Alaska Insurance                                  
Guaranty Association, to hospital and medical service corporations,                                 
and to regulation of insurance producers, agents, brokers, managers,                                
and adjusters; and providing for an effective date." Signing do pass:                               
Senator Stevens, Chair, Senators Austerman, Torgerson. Signing no                                   
recommendation: Senator Davis.                                                                      
                                                                                                    
The following previously published fiscal information applies:                                      
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Community and Economic                                      
  Development                                                                                       
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee.