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SB 289                                                                                            
SENATE BILL NO. 289 BY THE SENATE LABOR AND                                                         
COMMERCE COMMITTEE BY REQUEST, entitled:                                                            
                                                                                                    
      "An Act relating to the payment of insurer examination                                        
      expenses, to the regulation of managed care insurance                                         
      plans, to actuarial opinions and supporting                                                   
      documentation for an insurer, to insurance firms,                                             
      managing general agents, and third-party administrators,                                      
      to eligibility of surplus lines insurers, to suitability of                                   
      life and health insurance policies and annuity contracts,                                     
      to unfair discrimination under a health insurance policy,                                     
      to prompt payment of health care insurance claims, to                                         
      required notice by an insurer, to individual deferred                                         
      annuities, to direct payment to providers under a health                                      
      insurance policy, to mental health benefits under a health                                    
      care insurance plan, to the definitions of 'title insurance                                   
      limited producer' and of other terms used in the title                                        
      regulating the practice of the business of insurance, and                                     
      to small employer health insurance; repealing the Small                                       

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      Employer Health Reinsurance Association; making                                               
      conforming amendments; and providing for an effective                                         
      date."                                                                                        
                                                                                                    
was read the first time and referred to the Labor and Commerce and                                  
Finance Committees.