Bill Amendment: IL HB2055 | 2015-2016 | 99th General Assembly

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: STATE GOVERNMENT-TECH

Status: 2015-04-24 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2055 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2015-HB2055-House_Amendment_001.html

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Rep. Donald L. Moffitt

Filed: 4/20/2015

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AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 2055
AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 2055 by replacing
everything after the enacting clause with the following:
"Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the Fire
Insurance Cost Note Act.
Section 5. Applicability. Every bill, the effect of which
could potentially result in an additional or increased cost to
insurance companies for fire coverage, shall have prepared for
it, before second reading in the house of introduction, a brief
explanatory statement or note that shall include a reliable
estimate of the anticipated impact on the cost to insurance
companies for fire coverage. These notes shall be known as fire
insurance cost notes.
Section 10. Preparation. The sponsor of each bill, to which
Section 5 applies, shall present a copy of the bill, with his

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or her request for a fire insurance cost note, to the
Department of Insurance. The fire insurance cost note shall be
prepared by the Department of Insurance and furnished to the
sponsor of the bill within 5 calendar days thereafter; except
that whenever, because of the complexity of the measure,
additional time is required for the preparation of the fire
insurance cost note, the Department of Insurance may so inform
the sponsor of the bill and the sponsor may approve an
extension not to exceed an additional 5 calendar days within
which to furnish the note. An extension may not, however, be
beyond May 15 following the date of the request.
Copies of each fire insurance cost note shall be furnished
by the Department to the presiding officer of each chamber, the
minority leader of each chamber, the Clerk of the House of
Representatives, the Secretary of the Senate, the sponsor of
the bill that is the subject of the note, and the member, if
any, who initiated the request for the note.
Section 15. Vote on necessity of fire insurance cost note.
Whenever the sponsor of a bill is of the opinion that no fire
insurance cost note is necessary, any member of either house
may request that a note be obtained, and in that case the
applicability of this Act shall be decided by a majority of
those present and voting in the house of which the sponsor is a
member.

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Section 20. Requisites and contents. The note shall be
factual in nature, as brief and concise as may be, and shall
provide as reliable an estimate of the bill's impact as is
possible under the circumstances. The note shall include both
the immediate effect and, if determinable or reasonably
foreseeable, the long-range effect of the bill. If, after
careful investigation, it is determined that no estimate is
possible, the note shall contain a statement to that effect
setting forth the reasons why no estimate can be given.
Section 25. Comment or opinion; technical or mechanical
defects. No comment or opinion shall be included in the note
with regard to the merits of the bill for which the note is
prepared; however, technical or mechanical defects may be
noted. The note shall be prepared in quintuplicate, and the
original of the note shall be signed by the Director of
Insurance or a person designated by the Director.
Section 30. Appearance of State officials and employees in
support or opposition of measure. The fact that a fire
insurance cost note is prepared for a bill shall not preclude
or restrict the appearance before any committee of the General
Assembly of any official or authorized employee of any State
board, commission, department, agency, or other entity that
desires to be heard in support of or in opposition to the bill.

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Section 35. Amendment of bill necessitating statement of
effect of proposed amendment. Whenever any committee of either
chamber reports any bill with an amendment of such nature as
will substantially affect the impact of the bill on insurance
companies for fire coverage, and whenever any bill is amended
on the floor of either chamber in such manner as to
substantially affect the impact of the bill on insurance
companies for fire coverage, the Department may, on its own
initiative, or shall, within 5 calendar days after a request by
any member of the chamber by which the bill is then considered,
prepare a new or revised fire insurance cost note in relation
to the amended bill. If such a request is made, the bill shall
be held on second reading until the note is received or the 5
calendar day period has passed. Copies of each new or revised
fire insurance cost note shall be furnished to the persons
named in Section 10.
Section 40. Confidentiality. The subject matter of bills
submitted to the Director of Insurance shall be kept in strict
confidence by the Department of Insurance, and no information
relating to the bill or its fire insurance cost impact shall be
divulged by any official or employee of the Department, except
to the bill's sponsor or the sponsor's designee, before the
bill's introduction in the General Assembly.".