Bill Text: IL SB1672 | 2021-2022 | 102nd General Assembly | Enrolled
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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurance company offering homeowner's insurance coverage or renter's insurance coverage that issues a policy or contract insuring against liability for injury to a person or injury to or destruction of property arising out of the ownership, lease, or rental of residential property shall, to the best of their ability, for any claim involving a dog-related incident, record specified circumstances relating to the incident. Provides that the information shall be collected for a 2-year period beginning on January 1, 2022 and shall be reported annually to the Department of Insurance. Requires the Department to make the information available on the Department's website by July 1, 2023 and update the information each July 1 through July 1, 2024. Provides that the information or data collected by the Department shall not be released or published in any way that violates the confidentiality or proprietary status or nature of the data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0328 [SB1672 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB1672-Enrolled.html
Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurance company offering homeowner's insurance coverage or renter's insurance coverage that issues a policy or contract insuring against liability for injury to a person or injury to or destruction of property arising out of the ownership, lease, or rental of residential property shall, to the best of their ability, for any claim involving a dog-related incident, record specified circumstances relating to the incident. Provides that the information shall be collected for a 2-year period beginning on January 1, 2022 and shall be reported annually to the Department of Insurance. Requires the Department to make the information available on the Department's website by July 1, 2023 and update the information each July 1 through July 1, 2024. Provides that the information or data collected by the Department shall not be released or published in any way that violates the confidentiality or proprietary status or nature of the data.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2021-08-06 - Public Act . . . . . . . . . 102-0328 [SB1672 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2021-SB1672-Enrolled.html
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| 1 | AN ACT concerning regulation.
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| 2 | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| 3 | represented in the General Assembly:
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| 4 | Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by | ||||||
| 5 | adding Section 143.10d as follows:
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| 6 | (215 ILCS 5/143.10d new) | ||||||
| 7 | Sec. 143.10d. Claim information for a dog-related | ||||||
| 8 | incident. | ||||||
| 9 | (a) An insurance company offering homeowner's insurance | ||||||
| 10 | coverage or renter's insurance coverage that issues a policy | ||||||
| 11 | or contract insuring against liability for injury to a person | ||||||
| 12 | or injury to or destruction of property arising out of the | ||||||
| 13 | ownership, lease, or rental of residential property shall, to | ||||||
| 14 | the best of their ability, for any claim involving a | ||||||
| 15 | dog-related incident, record circumstances relating to the | ||||||
| 16 | incident, including, but not limited to: | ||||||
| 17 | (1) the breed of dog, and, if the breed was made by | ||||||
| 18 | visual identification, who made the identification: the | ||||||
| 19 | adjuster, the owner, or the insured; | ||||||
| 20 | (2) where the owner or insured obtained the dog from: | ||||||
| 21 | a pet store, a breeder, an animal shelter or rescue, a | ||||||
| 22 | friend or acquaintance, or found the dog as a stray; | ||||||
| 23 | (3) the sex of the dog and whether the dog was spayed | ||||||
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| 1 | or neutered; | ||||||
| 2 | (4) whether the person injured by the dog was observed | ||||||
| 3 | engaging in teasing, tormenting, battering, assaulting, | ||||||
| 4 | injuring, or otherwise provoking the dog; | ||||||
| 5 | (5) the type of injury sustained by the victim, such | ||||||
| 6 | as a bite or fall; | ||||||
| 7 | (6) whether the incident occurred on the insured's | ||||||
| 8 | property or another location; and | ||||||
| 9 | (7) any obedience training or previous claims or past | ||||||
| 10 | complaints against the dog. | ||||||
| 11 | (b) This information shall be collected for a 2-year | ||||||
| 12 | period beginning on January 1, 2022 and shall be reported | ||||||
| 13 | annually to the Department. The Department shall make the | ||||||
| 14 | information available on the Department's website by July 1, | ||||||
| 15 | 2023 and shall update the information each July 1 through July | ||||||
| 16 | 1, 2024. The information or data collected by the Department | ||||||
| 17 | shall not be released or published in any way that violates the | ||||||
| 18 | confidentiality or proprietary status or nature of the data.
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