CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

 

                        HOUSE BILL 1002

 

 

                    Chapter 92, Laws of 1997

 

 

 

 

                        55th Legislature

                      1997 Regular Session

 

 

INSURANCE ANTIFRAUD PLANS--EXEMPTIONS

 

 

 

                        EFFECTIVE DATE: 

Passed by the House February 3, 1997

  Yeas 97   Nays 0

 

 

 

             CLYDE BALLARD

Speaker of the

      House of Representatives

 

Passed by the Senate April 9, 1997

  Yeas 42   Nays 0

             CERTIFICATE

 

I, Timothy A. Martin, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is HOUSE BILL 1002  as passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on the dates hereon set forth.

 

 

 

               BRAD OWEN

President of the Senate

          TIMOTHY A. MARTIN

                          Chief Clerk

 

 

Approved April 21, 1997 Place Style On Codes above, and Style Off Codes below.    

                                FILED          

 

 

           April 21, 1997 - 4:09 p.m.

 

 

 

              GARY LOCKE

Governor of the State of Washington

                   Secretary of State

                  State of Washington


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                          HOUSE BILL 1002

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             Passed Legislature - 1997 Regular Session

 

State of Washington      55th Legislature     1997 Regular Session

 

By Representatives L. Thomas, Dyer and Mielke

 

Read first time 01/13/97.  Referred to Committee on Financial Institutions & Insurance.

 

 

Clarifying submission of insurance antifraud plans.  


    AN ACT Relating to insurance antifraud plans; and amending RCW 48.30A.045.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

 

    Sec. 1.  RCW 48.30A.045 and 1995 c 285 s 9 are each amended to read as follows:

    (1) Each insurer licensed to write direct insurance in this state, except those exempted in subsection (2) of this section, shall institute and maintain an insurance antifraud plan.  An insurer licensed on July 1, 1995, shall file its antifraud plan with the insurance commissioner no later than December 31, 1995.  An insurer licensed after July 1, 1995, shall file its antifraud plan within six months of licensure.  An insurer shall file any change to the antifraud plan with the insurance commissioner within thirty days after the plan has been modified.

    (2) This section does not apply to health carriers, as defined in RCW 48.43.005, life insurers, or title insurers; or property or casualty insurers with annual gross written medical malpractice insurance premiums in this state that exceed fifty percent of their total annual gross written premiums in this state; or all credit-related insurance written in connection with a credit transaction in which the creditor is named as a beneficiary or loss payee under the policy except vendor single-interest or collateral protection coverage as defined in RCW 48.22.110(4).


    Passed the House February 3, 1997.

    Passed the Senate April 9, 1997.

Approved by the Governor April 21, 1997.

    Filed in Office of Secretary of State April 21, 1997.