PRINTER'S NO. 2750
No. 2160 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY PIEVSKY AND GALLAGHER, JANUARY 18, 1982
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON INSURANCE, JANUARY 18, 1982
AN ACT
1 Requiring automobile insurance companies to reduce premium
2 charges to qualified insured individuals who successfully
3 complete an approved motor vehicle accident prevention
4 course.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Every insurance company which writes automobile
8 insurance in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania shall allow an
9 appropriate reduction in premium charges to all insured
10 individuals who are 55 years of age or older and who
11 successfully complete an approved motor vehicle accident
12 prevention course.
13 Section 2. The premium reductions required by section 1
14 shall be shown in any schedule of rates or rating plans filed by
15 automobile insurers with the Insurance Commissioner and shall be
16 for a period of two years.
17 Section 3. (a) The Department of Transportation shall have
18 the duty to review and, at its discretion, approve the course
1 contents of any motor vehicle accident prevention program.
2 (b) An approved motor vehicle accident prevention program
3 shall include an appropriate number of hours of classroom
4 instruction and field driving instruction as determined by the
5 Department of Transportation.
6 (c) Any motor vehicle accident prevention program which is
7 self-taught shall not be approved by the Department of
8 Transportation.
9 Section 4. Upon successful completion of the approved motor
10 vehicle accident prevention course, each participant shall be
11 issued by the course instructor or agency, a certified
12 certificate which shall be the basis of qualification for the
13 reduction mandated in section 1.
14 Section 5. In order to continue the reduction mandated in
15 section 1, each qualified insured individual shall successfully
16 complete an approved motor vehicle accident prevention course
17 every two years.
18 Section 6. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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