2009-04-16                     Senate Journal                      Page 0991
HB 175                                                                                                                        
CS FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 175(L&C) BY THE HOUSE LABOR                                                                               
AND COMMERCE COMMITTEE, entitled:                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
     "An Act relating to insurance, including treating as                                                                       
     confidential certain information submitted to the director of                                                              
     insurance by the National Association of Insurance                                                                         
     Commissioners; clarifying conditions for the release of                                                                    
     insurer deposits; defining travel insurance that may be sold                                                               
     under a travel insurance limited producer license; establishing                                                            
     criteria for licensing of nonresident independent adjusters as                                                             
     resident adjusters; exempting rewards under a wellness                                                                     
     program from treatment as insurance discrimination or                                                                      
     rebating; making certain insurance required of the                                                                         
     Comprehensive Health Insurance Association permissive                                                                      
     rather than mandatory; making certain provisions relating to                                                               
     statements on applications and guaranteed renewability for                                                                 
     individual health insurance applicable to hospital and medical                                                             
     service corporations; making public certain forms and related                                                              
     documents filed for approval by a hospital or medical service                                                              
     corporation after the filing becomes effective; relating to                                                                
     deposits of self-funded multiple employer welfare                                                                          
     arrangements; repealing reasons that the director of insurance                                                             
     may use to deny or revoke a license; and providing for an                                                                  
     effective date."                                                                                                           
                                                                                                                                
was read the first time and referred to the Labor and Commerce                                                                  
Committee.