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ID S1014

Bill

Status

Passed

3/21/2013

Primary Sponsor

Health and Welfare Committee

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Origin

Senate

2013 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Amends Idaho Code Section 41-406 to modify the distribution of insurance-related taxes, fines, and penalties collected by the Department of Insurance.

  • 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.

  • 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).

  • 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.

  • 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

Committee Referrals

Judiciary and Rules1/16/2013

Full Bill Text

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