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S1460.......................................by COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL COMPANIES - INSURANCE - Amends existing law to provide
an exception to licensing requirements of the Department of Insurance for
motor vehicle rental companies.
02/13 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/16 Rpt prt - to Com/HuRes
02/25 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
02/26 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/03 3rd rdg - PASSED - 34-0-1
AYES--Andreason, Boatright, Branch, Bunderson, Burtenshaw, Cameron,
Crow, Danielson, Darrington, Deide, Dunklin, Frasure, Geddes, Hansen,
Hawkins, Ingram, Ipsen, Keough, King, Lee, McLaughlin, Noh, Parry,
Richardson, Riggs, Risch, Sandy, Schroeder, Stennett, Sweeney,
Thorne, Twiggs, Wheeler, Whitworth
NAYS--None
Absent and excused--Sorensen
Floor Sponsor - King
Title apvd - to House
03/04 House intro - 1st rdg - to Bus
03/12 Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/13 2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/16 3rd rdg - PASSED - 70-0-0
AYES -- Alltus, Barraclough, Barrett, Bell, Bieter, Bivens,
Black(15), Black(23), Boe, Bruneel, Callister, Campbell, Chase,
Clark, Crane, Crow, Cuddy, Deal, Denney, Ellsworth, Field(13),
Field(20), Gagner, Geddes, Gould, Hadley, Hansen, Henbest, Hornbeck,
Jaquet, Jones(9) Jones(22), Jones(20), Judd, Kellogg, Kempton,
Kendell, Kjellander, Kunz, Lake, Linford, Loertscher, Mader, Marley,
McKague, Meyer, Miller, Mortensen, Newcomb, Pischner, Pomeroy,
Reynolds, Richman, Ridinger, Robison, Sali, Schaefer, Stevenson,
Stoicheff, Stone, Stubbs, Taylor, Tilman, Tippets, Trail, Watson,
Wheeler, Wood, Zimmermann, Mr. Speaker.
NAYS -- None
Absent and excused -- None
Floor Sponsor - Black(15)
Title apvd - to Senate
03/16 To enrol
03/18 Rpt enrol - Pres signed
Sp signed
03/19 To Governor
03/20 Governor signed
Session Law Chapter 141
Effective: 07/01/98
S1460|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fourth Legislature Second Regular Session - 1998IN THE SENATE SENATE BILL NO. 1460 BY COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO INSURANCE; AMENDING SECTION 41-1032, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE A LIM- 3 ITED EXCEPTION FROM LICENSING REQUIREMENTS FOR MOTOR VEHICLE RENTAL COMPA- 4 NIES. 5 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 6 SECTION 1. That Section 41-1032, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 7 amended to read as follows: 8 41-1032. EXCEPTIONS TO LICENSE REQUIREMENT. Sections 41-1030 and 41-1031, 9 Idaho Code, shall not apply as to: 10 (1) Salaried home office or branch office employees of insurers, or sala- 11 ried employees in the offices of managing general agents, who perform adminis- 12 trative, clerical, or technical services in such offices and do not solicit 13 insurance business from insureds or prospective insureds. 14 (2) The regular salaried employee in the office of a general lines agent 15 or general lines broker, which employee devotes full time to clerical and 16 administrative services, with incidental taking of insurance applications and 17 receiving premiums in the office of the agent or broker, if the employee does 18 not receive any commissions on such applications and his compensation is not 19 varied by the volume of such applications, insurance or premiums; or the regu- 20 lar salaried employee in the office of the life or disability agent or life 21 broker, and who does not solicit or accept from the public applications for 22 life insurance, disability insurance, or annuity contracts. 23 (3) Service representatives, i.e. officers and traveling representatives, 24 compensated by salary only, of insurers or of managing general agents, who 25 work with or through resident agents or brokers in the solicitation, negotia- 26 tion, or effectuation of insurance or annuity contracts. 27 (4) Officers and regular representatives, compensated by salary only, of 28 special lines insurers which do not solicit insurance from the general public 29 and do not use resident agents generally in the solicitation of insurance 30 business. 31 (5) Officers and regular salaried representatives of domestic reciprocal 32 insurers writing only workmen's compensation coverages for employers commonly 33 known as self-insurers. 34 (6) A person who, in the performance of ministerial duties, secures and 35 forwards information for the purpose of group insurance or group annuity cov- 36 erage or for enrolling individuals under such group coverages or issuing cer- 37 tificates thereunder, where no commission is paid for such services. 38 (7) A person who, concurrent with the rental of a motor vehicle, 39 provides contract options to the standard rental agreement which provide auto 40 and travel related coverages through authorized insurers during a rental 41 period not to exceed ninety (90) days.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 08030
This legislation relates to optional insurance products offered as part of a short-term rental of motor
vehicles. The legislation excludes these transactions from the licensing requirements of the Idaho Insurance
Code if the rental period does not exceed ninety (90) days, the products are products of authorized insurers,
and the options are provided concurrently with the rental of a motor vehicle. The people currently engaged
in transactions covered by this legislation are not now licensed.
FISCAL NOTE
This legislation will not have an impact on state or local funds.
CONTACT:
Name: John Michael Brassey
Phone: 208-336-7930
Statement of Purpose/Fiscal Impact
S 1460