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| PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 3720, 3959 | PRINTER'S NO. 4058 |
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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY JOHNSON, BRIGGS, BROWN, BUXTON, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, D. COSTA, FRANKEL, HENNESSEY, JOSEPHS, MANN, MICOZZIE, PAYTON, READSHAW, SANTONI, SIPTROTH AND YOUNGBLOOD, MAY 5, 2010 |
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| AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 30, 2010 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.789, No.285), entitled, as |
2 | amended, "An act relating to insurance; establishing an |
3 | insurance department; and amending, revising, and |
4 | consolidating the law relating to the licensing, |
5 | qualification, regulation, examination, suspension, and |
6 | dissolution of insurance companies, Lloyds associations, |
7 | reciprocal and inter-insurance exchanges, and certain |
8 | societies and orders, the examination and regulation of fire |
9 | insurance rating bureaus, and the licensing and regulation of |
10 | insurance agents and brokers; the service of legal process |
11 | upon foreign insurance companies, associations or exchanges; |
12 | providing penalties, and repealing existing laws," in |
13 | insurance producer licensing, providing for life, accident |
14 | and health insurance. |
15 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
16 | hereby enacts as follows: |
17 | Section 1. The act of May 17, 1921 (P.L.789, No.285), known |
18 | as The Insurance Department Act of 1921, is amended by adding a |
19 | section to read: |
20 | Section 604.1-A. Life, accident and health insurance. |
21 | (a) Scope.--This section shall apply to insurance producer |
22 | licensing examinations taken for life insurance or for life, |
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1 | accident and health or sickness lines of insurance. |
2 | (b) Administration.--The department or a vendor selected by |
3 | the department shall review producer licensing examinations |
4 | subject to this section on an annual basis, and shall consider |
5 | as part of the review determinations and findings made under |
6 | this section. The department or its selected vendor shall do all |
7 | of the following: |
8 | (1) Beginning on January 1, 2011, collect demographic |
9 | data from individuals who have made application to take an |
10 | insurance producer licensing examination subject to this |
11 | section. The data shall be collected on a form and in a |
12 | manner prescribed by the department and shall include the |
13 | race, gender, nation of origin and highest achieved |
14 | educational level of the examination applicant. The form |
15 | shall contain a written statement displayed prominently on |
16 | each page used to collect the data which states: |
17 | You are not required to disclose this information and |
18 | will not be penalized for leaving it blank. This |
19 | information is used strictly for research and statistical |
20 | purposes in order to improve the quality and fairness of |
21 | the examination. |
22 | (2) Review the data collected under paragraph (1) and |
23 | compare it to the outcome of each question of the producer | <-- |
24 | insurance licensing examinations and to the overall outcome |
25 | of the examinations to determine whether there was any |
26 | disparity in the pass rate based on demographic |
27 | characteristics of the examinees. |
28 | (3) Publish its findings under paragraph (2) on its |
29 | Internet website by September 30, 2011, and every six months |
30 | thereafter. |
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1 | (c) Right-to-Know.--The individual demographic data |
2 | collected under subsection (b)(1) shall not be subject to the |
3 | act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to- |
4 | Know Law. |
5 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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