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SB 289                                                                                            
The Labor and Commerce Committee considered SENATE BILL NO.                                         
289 "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'                            

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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 Employer Health Reinsurance Association;                                        
making conforming amendments; and providing for an effective date"                                  
and recommended it be replaced with                                                                 
                                                                                                    
          CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 289(L&C)                                                           
                                                                                                    
Signing do pass: Senator Bunde, Chair; Senators Ben Stevens,                                        
Seekins.                                                                                            
                                                                                                    
The following fiscal information was published today:                                               
 Fiscal Note No. 1, zero, Department of Commerce, Community                                         
       and Economic Development                                                                     
                                                                                                    
The bill was referred to the Finance Committee.