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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 359
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 359 by replacing
3 everything after the enacting clause with the following:
4 "Section 5. The Civil Administrative Code of Illinois is
5 amended by adding Section 56.3 as follows:
6 (20 ILCS 1405/56.3 new)
7 Sec. 56.3. Insurance Fraud Task Force.
8 (a) The Insurance Fraud Task Force is hereby established
9 and shall consist of the following:
10 (1) The Director of Insurance or his or her
11 designee.
12 (2) The Director of State Police or his or her
13 designee.
14 (3) The Attorney General or his or her designee.
15 (4) Five representatives appointed by the Governor
16 by September 1, 1999 as follows:
17 (A) One representative of a county sheriff's
18 department.
19 (B) One representative of a United States
20 criminal investigative department or agency.
21 (C) One representative of a prosecuting
22 authority of a city, a village, an incorporated
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1 town, a county, or this State.
2 (D) Two insurance consumers.
3 (5) Seven representatives of insurers appointed by
4 the Director of Insurance by September 1, 1999,
5 representing large, medium, and small property, casualty,
6 disability, life, and health insurers in this State, and
7 one representative of a health maintenance organization
8 appointed by the Director of Insurance by September 1,
9 1999.
10 (b) The Insurance Fraud Task Force shall do all of the
11 following:
12 (1) Investigate the issue of organized insurance
13 fraud and methods to combat organized insurance fraud.
14 (2) Examine ways to unite the resources of the
15 insurance industry with the appropriate components of
16 federal and State criminal justice systems so that
17 organized insurance fraud schemes are identified and
18 thoroughly investigated and the perpetrators are
19 prosecuted in the best interests of justice.
20 (3) Examine the concept of creating a private
21 agency to assist in combating organized insurance fraud
22 and all ways to fund the agency, including current
23 funding of insurance mechanisms related to insurance
24 crimes.
25 (4) Report to the Governor and the General Assembly
26 no later than July 1, 2000 on its findings and
27 recommendations.
28 (c) This Section is repealed on July 1, 2000.
29 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
30 becoming law.".