SB3518 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB096 16412 ASK 31679 b

96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2009 and 2010
SB3518

Introduced 2/10/2010, by Sen. James F. Clayborne, Jr.

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

215 ILCS 5/115.18b new
225 ILCS 60/32 rep.
735 ILCS 5/2-624 rep.

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that no company writing medical liability insurance in the State shall be required to offer any insured the option to make quarterly premium payments on annual premiums of less than $1,200. Amends the Medical Practice Act of 1987. Repeals a provision that allows for the practice of medicine by a person who is licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches in any other state of the United States or the District of Columbia, who has applied in writing to the Department, in form and substance satisfactory to the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, for a license to practice under the Act, and has complied with all of the provisions required for licensure except for the passing of an examination, until certain specified events occur. Amends the Code of Civil Procedure. Repeals provisions that set out the requirements for a claim that seeks damages for bodily injuries or death by reason of medical, hospital, or other healing art malpractice and is based upon apparent or ostensible agency. Effective immediately.

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

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 115.18b as follows:

(215 ILCS 5/115.18b new)

Sec. 115.18b. Premium payments for medical liability insurance. No company writing medical liability insurance in this State shall be required to offer any insured the option to make quarterly premium payments on annual premiums of less than $1,200.

(225 ILCS 60/32 rep.)

Section 15. The Medical Practice Act of 1987 is amended by repealing Section 32.

(735 ILCS 5/2-624 rep.)

Section 20. The Code of Civil Procedure is amended by repealing Section 2-624.

Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon becoming law.