Bill Monning
- Democratic
Author
Existing law provides for the regulation of disability insurers by the Insurance Commissioner. Existing law requires every admitted disability insurer or other entity liable for any loss due to health insurance fraud doing business in California to pay an annual special purpose assessment that does not exceed $0.20 per year for each insured under an individual or group insurance policy it issues in this state, in order to fund increased investigation and prosecution of fraudulent disability insurance claims. Existing law requires that 30% of those funds be distributed to the Fraud Division of the Department of Insurance for enhanced investigative efforts and that the other 70% be distributed to local district attorneys for the investigation and prosecution of disability insurance fraud cases, as specified. This bill would instead require that the annual special purpose assessment be paid for each person in this state covered under an individual or group policy regardless of the situs of the contract or master group policyholder, and regardless of whether the insured has been issued an individual certificate of coverage, including blanket insurance. The bill would also require that the data supporting the special purpose assessment not be required to be submitted more often than once each calendar year, except that responses to questions from the commissioner and clarifying information regarding the data would not be considered as additional submissions of data. The bill would authorize, for group and blanket insurance contracts, insurers to rely on information requested from and provided by the group policyholder after a reasonable effort to obtain timely and accurate information.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 251, Statutes of 2014.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4402.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 5905.) Ordered to the Senate.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 25).
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on INS.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 3321.) Ordered to the Assembly.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3281.) (April 24).
April 23 hearing rescheduled for April 24.
Set for hearing April 23.
Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Set for hearing April 9.
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1142 | HTML |
| 02/20/14 - Introduced | |
| 06/19/14 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/12/14 - Enrolled | |
| 08/22/14 - Chaptered |
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