HB3385 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2011 and 2012
HB3385

Introduced 2/24/2011, by Rep. Maria Antonia Berrios

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

215 ILCS 5/143.19c new

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no policy of automobile insurance may be cancelled where the basis for such cancellation is the insured's lack of a valid drivers license or valid instruction permit if the insurer failed to ask the insured for proof of a valid drivers license or valid instruction permit at the time the insured applied for coverage.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning insurance.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by adding Section 143.19c as follows:

(215 ILCS 5/143.19c new)

Sec. 143.19c. Cancellation; valid drivers license. No policy of insurance as defined in subsection (a) of Section 143.13 of this Act may be cancelled where the basis for such cancellation is the insured's lack of a valid drivers license or valid instruction permit if the insurer failed to ask the insured for proof of a valid drivers license or valid instruction permit at the time the insured applied for coverage.