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PIACT bill tracking and priority bills —Feb. 9, 2011
PIA priority bills are highlighted in grey.
Bill No. |
Status |
PIA position |
Hovey—To extend the amount of time a family has to notify an insurer of the birth of a child. Last Action: 1/5/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Megna—To allow an owner of a registered private-passenger motor vehicle to suspend insurance coverage for such vehicle by electronic mail. An act permitting suspension of private-passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage by electronic mail. Last Action: 1/5/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Megna—To require insurers, insurance agents and insurance producers to use values not less than depreciated reconstruction costs or fair market values for real property replacement cost coverage under personal or commercial risk policies. An act concerning real property replacement cost coverage under personal or commercial risk policies. Last Action: 2/9/10 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Zalaski—To eliminate insurance requirements under the Common Interest Ownership Act with respect to buildings containing units divided by vertical boundaries. An act concerning insurance requirements under the Common Interest Ownership Act. Last Action: 1/5/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary |
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Nardello/Mikutel—To allow more public input on proposed health insurance rate increases. An act concerning public hearings for proposed health insurance rate increases. Last Action: 1/6/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Hovey—To improve road safety in Connecticut by requiring all motor vehicles to undergo annual safety inspections. An act requiring annual safety inspections for all motor vehicles. Last Action: 1/6/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Transportation |
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Megna—To require notice to an insured that he or she may choose the person who will perform the repair or remediation for a loss covered under a personal or commercial risk policy. An act requiring notice to an insured for repair or remediation following a covered loss under a personal or commercial risk policy. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Hovey—To aid policyholders who are in financial distress following a loss covered by a fire insurance policy. An act requiring advance payment under a fire insurance policy. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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O'Brien— To reduce the rate of permissible increases for health insurance premiums, ensure that health insurance premium payments are used for health care services and prohibit the use of health insurance policy premiums collected from residents of this state for political activities by the insurer. An act concerning the Insurance Department and rate increases. Last Action: 1/11/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Willis/Johnson/Nardello/Meyer/Looney—To establish procedures for a hearing prior to any rate approval for health insurance policies. An act concerning public hearings for health insurance rate approval requests. Last Action: 1/11/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Lesser— To prevent an employee or prospective employee from being subject to discrimination on the basis of his or her credit history. An act concerning discriminatory employment practices and the use of credit reports in employment decisions. Last Action: 1/14/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees |
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Fritz—To require that the Insurance Department hold a public hearing for health insurance premium rate increase requests greater than 7 percent. An act concerning Insurance Department public hearings and rate increases. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Urban—To prohibit insurers from underwriting personal lines insurance based on the breed of dog owned by the insured. An act concerning homeowners insurance coverage based on breed of dog. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To allow the use of any publicly available sources to calculate the value of a totalled motor vehicle for purposes of determining the settlement amount of such vehicle to be paid to the claimant. An act concerning the value of a totalled motor vehicle. Last Action: 2/4/11 Public Hearing 2/10/11 |
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Walker—To prohibit insurers from cancelling an insurance policy without notifying the insured or delivering or issuing for delivery an insurance policy for an individual without the express consent of such individual. An act concerning notice for cancellations or issuance of insurance policies. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Giuliano—To provide residents of this state access to additional health insurance plans by permitting residents to purchase health insurance from insurers domiciled in other states. An act permitting state residents to purchase health insurance from foreign insurers. Last Action: 2/4/11 Public Hearing 2/8/11 |
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Lemar—To mandate that employers provide paid sick leave to employees. An act mandating employers provider paid sick or medical leave to employees. Last Action: 1/19/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees |
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Roldan—To require any attorney admitted to practice in this state who is engaged in the active practice of law to maintain professional liability insurance. An act requiring attorneys to maintain professional liability insurance. Last Action: 1/20/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary |
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Fleischmann—To require that the Insurance Commissioner be a state-wide elected official. An act concerning election of the insurance commissioner. Last Action: 1/21/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections |
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Clemons—To adjust the weight of individual territorial loss cost indication for territorial classifications from 75 percent to 65 percent. An act adjusting the territorial classifications for private-passenger nonfleet automobile insurance. Last Action: 1/24/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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D'Amelio—To require an insurance company to provide notice of cancellation of a motor vehicle policy to any lienholder listed on such insurance policy, in addition to the motor vehicle owner. An act requiring automobile insurers to provide notice of motor vehicle policy cancellation to lienholders listed on such policy. Last Action: 1/25/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Gonzalez—To provide for a more efficient way of calculating and collecting premiums for minimum levels of automobile insurance coverage. An act concerning automobile insurance. Last Action: 1/26/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Candelaria—To reduce premiums paid by residents of the state's urban areas for automobile insurance. An act concerning automobile insurance premiums in urban areas. Last Action: 1/26/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Robles, Fonfara—To authorize municipalities to operate intersection safety camera systems. An act authorizing municipalites to operate intersection safety camera systems. Last Action: 2/1/11 Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Transporation |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To allow owners of private passenger motor vehicles to submit a request for suspension of their automobile liability insurance policies by electronic mail. An act permitting suspension of private-passenger motor vehicle insurance coverage by electronic mail. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To require the written notice provided to an insured for repair or remediation work to be signed by the insured and the insurer to confirm that the insured received such notice prior to authorizing a direct payment to the person performing the repair or remediation work; and to require insurers to include a statement on the policy declaration page informing the insured of such insured's right to choose the person who will perform the repair or remediation work. An act requiring notice to an insured for repair or remediation following a covered loss under a personal or commercial risk policy. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To require insurers, upon request by an insured, to provide partial payment of the amount of loss covered under a fire loss insurance policy as an advance payment. An act requiring advance payment under a fire insurance policy. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To require common interest community associations to obtain on an annual basis rate quotes for insurance required to be maintained by such associations from at least two different insurance agencies. An act concerning insurance required under the Common Interest Ownership Act. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To establish specific insurer practices relating to replacement cost coverage under a homeowners insurance policy for a residential dwelling or a commercial risk insurance policy for real property. An act concerning replacement cost coverage under homeowners insurance and commercial risk policies. Last Action: 1/28/11 Public Hearing 2/1/11 |
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Public Health Committee—To implement the SustiNet Plan. An act concenring implementation of the SustiNet Plan. Last Action: 2/8/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Public Health |
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Crisco— To provide transparency in the rate approval process for certain individual health insurance policies. An act concerning rate approvals for certain individual health insurance policies. Last Action: 1/14/11 Vote to Draft |
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Crisco/Prague—To provide transparency and accountability in the rate approval process for premium increases for long-term care insurance policies. An act concerning rate approvals for long-term care insurance policies. Last Action: 1/14/11 Vote to Draft |
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Crisco—To establish standards for contracts between health-care providers and insurers. An act concerning standards for health-care provider contracts. Last Action: 1/14/11 Vote to Draft |
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Looney—To improve the quality of health care in this state by specifying a presumption of medical necessity for appeals of health insurance benefits denials, requiring documents and information that were considered in a final determination not to certify an admission, service, procedure or extension of stay to be provided to a provider of record and to an enrollee, and requiring dispensation and coverage of a prescribed drug during an appeal of a determination not to certify such dispensation. An act concerning appeals of health insurance benefits denials. Last Action: 1/14/11 Vote to Draft |
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Looney—To increase transparency in the health insurance rate approval process. An act concerning health insurance rate approvals. Last Action: 1/5/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Prague/Crisco—To require a public hearing to be held when an insurer requests a health insurance premium increase of greater than 10 percent. An act requiring a public hearing for certain health insurance rate increase requests. Last Action: 1/6/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Looney—To provide uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage to a named insured or a household member of the named insured for damages arising from being struck as a pedestrian during the theft of an insured vehicle. An act concerning uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage for bodily injury to a named insured or relative during the theft of a motor vehicle. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary |
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Meyer—To require that the Insurance Commissioner be an elected state official. An act concerning election of the insurance commissioner. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections |
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Meyer—To promote transparency in the Insurance Department's rate approval process. An act concerning public hearings for insurance premium increases. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Crisco—To establish requirements that are consistent with the federal Nonadmitted and Reinsurance Reform Act for authorized surplus-lines insurers doing business in the state. An act concerning requirements for surplus-lines insurers. Last Action: 1/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Crisco—To provide an affordable health insurance option for residents of this state. An act establishing the Nutmeg Health Insurance Plan for Connecticut residents. Last Action: 1/10/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Crisco—To create a state health insurance exchange pursuant to the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An act establishing a state health insurance exchange. Last Action: 1/10/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Witkos—To encourage municipalities and metropolitan districts to continue to permit the public to enjoy recreational activities on their property by providing such municipalities and districts with immunity from certain lawsuits. An act concerning the Recreational Land Use Act. Last Action: 1/13/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development |
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Doyle/Nafis—To protect the privacy of users of digital copiers. An act concerning digital copiers and privacy. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on General Law |
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Crisco—To prohibit property and casualty insurers from assessing late fees on policyholders who make late premium payments. An act prohibiting property and casualty insurers from charging late fees. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Crisco—To require disclosure and transparency relating to any method of payment for life insurance death benefits by adopting the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Life Insurance Beneficiaries' Bill of Rights. An act adopting the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Life Insurance Beneficiaries' Bill of Rights. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To require disclosure to life insurance policy owners of alternatives to the lapse or surrender of such policies and of such owner's rights related to the disposition of such policy by adopting the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Life Insurance Consumer Disclosure Model Act. An act adopting the National Conference of Insurance Legislators' Life Insurance Consumer Disclosure Model Act. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To establish a Division of Insurance Fraud in the Insurance Department to enforce the insurance laws of the state, develop a system to detect actual or potential insurance fraud in the state and receive and investigate complaints of insurance fraud. An act establishing a dvision of insurance fraud in the Insurance Department. Last Action: 1/18/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Roraback—To require insurers to notify the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles of the cancellation, in whole or in part, of a private passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy. An act clarifying the notification requirement by insurers to the commissioner of motor vehicles of the cancellation of a private-passenger motor vehicle liability insurance policy. Last Action: 2/4/11 Public Hearing 2/8/11 |
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Musto—To require prior approval of insurance rate increase requests and impose certain requirements on the Insurance Department regarding such requests. An act concerning insurance rate increases. Last Action: 1/20/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To require insurers to provide certain disclosures to insureds at the time of solicitation or application for purchase or sale of long-term care policies. An act requiring certain disclosures for long-term care policies. Last Action: 2/8/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Doyle/Guerrera—To increase the minimum liability limits for automobile insurance from the current twenty thousand/forty thousand dollar limit to an increased fifty thousand/one hundred thousand dollar limit. An act increasing the minimum limit limits for automobile insurance. Last Action: 2/1/11 Change of Refernece, House to Committee on Transporation |
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Doyle/Guerrera—To prohibit insurers from steering their policyholders to preferred motor vehicle repair shops. An act prohibiting insurers from steering policyholders to preferred motor vehicle repair shops. Last Action: 1/24/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Musto—To clarify the rule regarding when a person is an independent contractor or subcontractor as opposed to an employee. An act clarifying the definition of independent contractor. Last Action: 1/24/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees |
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Fonfara/Robles/Roldan—To allow a municipality to operate intersection safety camera systems. An act concerning municipal intersection safety systems. Last Action: 1/24/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Transportation |
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Boucher—To allow municipalities to install traffic safety cameras for the enforcement of traffic and speeding laws and to collect half of the revenue realized from such enforcement. An act authorizing municipalities to install traffic safety cameras for law-enforcement purposes. Last Action: 1/24/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Public Safety and Security |
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Labor and Public Employees Committee—To require employers with fifty or more employees to provide paid sick leave to certain employees for use for the employee's sickness, the employee's child's, parent's or spouse's sickness, or to deal with sexual assault or family violence issues. An act mandating employers provide paid sick leave to employees. Last Action: 2/7/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To modify various insurance statutes to strengthen the Insurance Department's ability to regulate the industry and protect consumers and to make technical and conforming changes. An act concerning revisions to the insurance statutes. Last Action: 2/8/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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Insurance and Real Estate Committee—To establish a state health insurance exchange pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. An act establishing a state health insurance exchange. Last Action: 2/8/11 Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate |
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