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ID S1014
Bill
Status
3/21/2013
Primary Sponsor
Health and Welfare Committee
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AI Summary
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Amends Idaho Code Section 41-406 to modify the distribution of insurance-related taxes, fines, and penalties collected by the Department of Insurance.
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Director may deposit up to 20% of collected funds into an insurance refund account (capped at $40,000 annually) to repay overpayments and erroneous receipts, with excess transferred to the general fund.
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Maintains existing provisions for distributing premium tax portions to the public employee retirement fund and creating an insurance insolvency administrative fund (capped at $200,000 per fiscal year with a $100,000 minimum balance).
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Removes mandatory allocations requiring one-fourth of premium tax excess above $45 million to go to the Idaho high risk individual reinsurance pool and specific allocations to health insurance programs, allowing the balance to go to the general fund instead.
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All premium tax provisions regarding specific fund allocations expire and become void on October 1, 2015, through a sunset clause.
Legislative Description
Amends existing law to remove the requirement that a specific percentage of funds be allocated to specific programs.
INSURANCE
Last Action
Subsection (1)(d) of Section 1 only
3/21/2013