103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2023 and 2024
SB3718

 

Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Adriane Johnson

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
215 ILCS 5/143.19.4 new
625 ILCS 5/6-201

    Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurance company that provides automobile liability insurance to any registered vehicle required to have liability coverage under the Illinois Vehicle Code must notify the Secretary within 30 days after a policy cancellation. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, within 30 days after an insurance company notifies the Secretary of a liability insurance policy cancellation, the Secretary of State shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that is the subject of the canceled liability insurance policy that the owner has 30 days after the issuance of the notice to provide verification of a liability insurance policy for the vehicle and that, if the owner fails to provide the verification with the 30-day period, the Secretary shall cancel the owner's license or permit until the owner provides the required verification.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning transportation.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
5adding Section 143.19.4 as follows:
 
6    (215 ILCS 5/143.19.4 new)
7    Sec. 143.19.4. Cancellation of automobile liability
8insurance policy; reporting. An insurance company that
9provides automobile liability insurance to any registered
10vehicle subject to Section 7-601 of the Illinois Vehicle Code
11must notify the Secretary within 30 days after a policy
12cancellation.
 
13    Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
14changing Section 6-201 as follows:
 
15    (625 ILCS 5/6-201)
16    Sec. 6-201. Authority to cancel licenses and permits.
17    (a) The Secretary of State is authorized to cancel any
18license or permit upon determining that the holder thereof:
19        1. was not entitled to the issuance thereof hereunder;
20    or
21        2. failed to give the required or correct information

 

 

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1    in his application; or
2        3. failed to pay any fees owed to the Secretary of
3    State under this Code for the license or permit; or
4        4. committed any fraud in the making of such
5    application; or
6        5. is ineligible therefor under the provisions of
7    Section 6-103 of this Act, as amended; or
8        6. has refused or neglected to submit an alcohol,
9    drug, and intoxicating compound evaluation or to submit to
10    examination or re-examination as required under this Act;
11    or
12        7. has been convicted of violating the Cannabis
13    Control Act, the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the
14    Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, or
15    the Use of Intoxicating Compounds Act while that
16    individual was in actual physical control of a motor
17    vehicle. For purposes of this Section, any person placed
18    on probation under Section 10 of the Cannabis Control Act,
19    Section 410 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or
20    Section 70 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community
21    Protection Act shall not be considered convicted. Any
22    person found guilty of this offense, while in actual
23    physical control of a motor vehicle, shall have an entry
24    made in the court record by the judge that this offense did
25    occur while the person was in actual physical control of a
26    motor vehicle and order the clerk of the court to report

 

 

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1    the violation to the Secretary of State as such. After the
2    cancellation, the Secretary of State shall not issue a new
3    license or permit for a period of one year after the date
4    of cancellation. However, upon application, the Secretary
5    of State may, if satisfied that the person applying will
6    not endanger the public safety, or welfare, issue a
7    restricted driving permit granting the privilege of
8    driving a motor vehicle between the petitioner's residence
9    and petitioner's place of employment or within the scope
10    of the petitioner's employment related duties, or to allow
11    transportation for the petitioner or a household member of
12    the petitioner's family for the receipt of necessary
13    medical care, or provide transportation for the petitioner
14    to and from alcohol or drug remedial or rehabilitative
15    activity recommended by a licensed service provider, or
16    for the petitioner to attend classes, as a student, in an
17    accredited educational institution. The petitioner must
18    demonstrate that no alternative means of transportation is
19    reasonably available; provided that the Secretary's
20    discretion shall be limited to cases where undue hardship,
21    as defined by the rules of the Secretary of State, would
22    result from a failure to issue such restricted driving
23    permit. In each case the Secretary of State may issue such
24    restricted driving permit for such period as he deems
25    appropriate, except that such permit shall expire no later
26    than 2 years from the date of issuance. A restricted

 

 

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1    driving permit issued hereunder shall be subject to
2    cancellation, revocation and suspension by the Secretary
3    of State in like manner and for like cause as a driver's
4    license issued hereunder may be cancelled, revoked or
5    suspended; except that a conviction upon one or more
6    offenses against laws or ordinances regulating the
7    movement of traffic shall be deemed sufficient cause for
8    the revocation, suspension or cancellation of a restricted
9    driving permit. The Secretary of State may, as a condition
10    to the issuance of a restricted driving permit, require
11    the applicant to participate in a driver remedial or
12    rehabilitative program. In accordance with 49 C.F.R. 384,
13    the Secretary of State may not issue a restricted driving
14    permit for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle to
15    a person holding a CDL whose driving privileges have been
16    revoked, suspended, cancelled, or disqualified under this
17    Code; or
18        8. failed to submit a report as required by Section
19    6-116.5 of this Code; or
20        9. has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in
21    the Sex Offender Registration Act. The driver's license
22    shall remain cancelled until the driver registers as a sex
23    offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration Act,
24    proof of the registration is furnished to the Secretary of
25    State and the sex offender provides proof of current
26    address to the Secretary; or

 

 

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1        10. is ineligible for a license or permit under
2    Section 6-107, 6-107.1, or 6-108 of this Code; or
3        11. refused or neglected to appear at a Driver
4    Services facility to have the license or permit corrected
5    and a new license or permit issued or to present
6    documentation for verification of identity; or
7        12. failed to submit a medical examiner's certificate
8    or medical variance as required by 49 C.F.R. 383.71 or
9    submitted a fraudulent medical examiner's certificate or
10    medical variance; or
11        13. has had his or her medical examiner's certificate,
12    medical variance, or both removed or rescinded by the
13    Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; or
14        14. failed to self-certify as to the type of driving
15    in which the CDL driver engages or expects to engage; or
16        15. has submitted acceptable documentation indicating
17    out-of-state residency to the Secretary of State to be
18    released from the requirement of showing proof of
19    financial responsibility in this State; or
20        16. was convicted of fraud relating to the testing or
21    issuance of a CDL or CLP, in which case only the CDL or CLP
22    shall be cancelled. After cancellation, the Secretary
23    shall not issue a CLP or CDL for a period of one year from
24    the date of cancellation; or
25        17. has a special restricted license under subsection
26    (g) of Section 6-113 of this Code and failed to submit the

 

 

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1    required annual vision specialist report that the special
2    restricted license holder's vision has not changed; or
3        18. has a special restricted license under subsection
4    (g) of Section 6-113 of this Code and was convicted or
5    received court supervision for a violation of this Code
6    that occurred during nighttime hours or was involved in a
7    motor vehicle crash during nighttime hours in which the
8    restricted license holder was at fault; or
9        19. has assisted an out-of-state resident in acquiring
10    an Illinois driver's license or identification card by
11    providing or allowing the out-of-state resident to use his
12    or her Illinois address of residence and is complicit in
13    distributing and forwarding the Illinois driver's license
14    or identification card to the out-of-state resident; or .
15        20. has failed to provide verification of a liability
16    insurance policy as required under Section 7-601 of this
17    Code after an insurance company has notified the Secretary
18    of State of a policy cancellation as required under
19    Section 143.19.4 of the Illinois Insurance Code and the
20    compliance period under this paragraph has expired. Within
21    30 days after an insurance company notifies the Secretary
22    of a liability insurance policy cancellation under Section
23    143.19.4 of the Illinois Insurance Code, the Secretary of
24    State shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that is
25    the subject of the canceled liability insurance policy
26    that the owner has 30 days after the issuance of the notice

 

 

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1    to provide verification of a liability insurance policy
2    for the vehicle as provided in Article VI of Chapter 7 of
3    this Code and that, if the owner fails to provide the
4    verification with the 30-day period, the Secretary shall
5    cancel the owner's license or permit until the owner
6    provides the required verification.
7    (b) Upon such cancellation the licensee or permittee must
8surrender the license or permit so cancelled to the Secretary
9of State.
10    (c) Except as provided in Sections 6-206.1 and 7-702.1,
11the Secretary of State shall have exclusive authority to
12grant, issue, deny, cancel, suspend and revoke driving
13privileges, drivers' licenses and restricted driving permits.
14    (d) The Secretary of State may adopt rules to implement
15this Section.
16(Source: P.A. 101-623, eff. 7-1-20; 102-982, eff. 7-1-23.)