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SB 254: Motor Vehicle Personal Injury Protection Insurance

GENERAL BILL by Bennett

Motor Vehicle Personal Injury Protection Insurance; Revising provisions relating to the contents of written reports of motor vehicle crashes; requiring that an application for licensure as a mobile clinic include a statement regarding insurance fraud; defining the term “no-fault law”; adding licensed acupuncturists to the list of practitioners authorized to provide, supervise, order, or prescribe services; providing that an insurer’s failure to send certain specification or explanation waives other grounds for rejecting an invalid claim; revising the insurer’s reimbursement limitation; authorizing the insurer to deny a claim if the provider does not submit a properly completed statement or bill within a certain time; authorizing an insurer to contract with a preferred provider; authorizing an insurer to provide a premium discount to an insured who selects a preferred provider; providing that an insured forfeits the premium discount if the insured uses nonemergency services performed by a nonpreferred provider in specified circumstances, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2012
Last Action: 3/9/2012 Senate - Died in Banking and Insurance, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 119 (Ch. 2012-197)
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Banking and Insurance (BI)
  2. Transportation (TR)
  3. Budget (BC)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
9/14/2011 Senate • Filed
9/21/2011 Senate • Referred to Banking and Insurance; Transportation; Budget -SJ 27
1/10/2012 Senate • Introduced -SJ 27
3/9/2012 Senate • Died in Banking and Insurance, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 119 (Ch. 2012-197)