Public Act 097-0603
 
SB1544 EnrolledLRB097 06470 RPM 46552 b

    AN ACT concerning insurance.
 
    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
 
    Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
changing Section 408 as follows:
 
    (215 ILCS 5/408)  (from Ch. 73, par. 1020)
    Sec. 408. Fees and charges.
    (1) The Director shall charge, collect and give proper
acquittances for the payment of the following fees and charges:
        (a) For filing all documents submitted for the
    incorporation or organization or certification of a
    domestic company, except for a fraternal benefit society,
    $2,000.
        (b) For filing all documents submitted for the
    incorporation or organization of a fraternal benefit
    society, $500.
        (c) For filing amendments to articles of incorporation
    and amendments to declaration of organization, except for a
    fraternal benefit society, a mutual benefit association, a
    burial society or a farm mutual, $200.
        (d) For filing amendments to articles of incorporation
    of a fraternal benefit society, a mutual benefit
    association or a burial society, $100.
        (e) For filing amendments to articles of incorporation
    of a farm mutual, $50.
        (f) For filing bylaws or amendments thereto, $50.
        (g) For filing agreement of merger or consolidation:
            (i) for a domestic company, except for a fraternal
        benefit society, a mutual benefit association, a
        burial society, or a farm mutual, $2,000.
            (ii) for a foreign or alien company, except for a
        fraternal benefit society, $600.
            (iii) for a fraternal benefit society, a mutual
        benefit association, a burial society, or a farm
        mutual, $200.
        (h) For filing agreements of reinsurance by a domestic
    company, $200.
        (i) For filing all documents submitted by a foreign or
    alien company to be admitted to transact business or
    accredited as a reinsurer in this State, except for a
    fraternal benefit society, $5,000.
        (j) For filing all documents submitted by a foreign or
    alien fraternal benefit society to be admitted to transact
    business in this State, $500.
        (k) For filing declaration of withdrawal of a foreign
    or alien company, $50.
        (l) For filing annual statement, except a fraternal
    benefit society, a mutual benefit association, a burial
    society, or a farm mutual, $200.
        (m) For filing annual statement by a fraternal benefit
    society, $100.
        (n) For filing annual statement by a farm mutual, a
    mutual benefit association, or a burial society, $50.
        (o) For issuing a certificate of authority or renewal
    thereof except to a fraternal benefit society, $200.
        (p) For issuing a certificate of authority or renewal
    thereof to a fraternal benefit society, $100.
        (q) For issuing an amended certificate of authority,
    $50.
        (r) For each certified copy of certificate of
    authority, $20.
        (s) For each certificate of deposit, or valuation, or
    compliance or surety certificate, $20.
        (t) For copies of papers or records per page, $1.
        (u) For each certification to copies of papers or
    records, $10.
        (v) For multiple copies of documents or certificates
    listed in subparagraphs (r), (s), and (u) of paragraph (1)
    of this Section, $10 for the first copy of a certificate of
    any type and $5 for each additional copy of the same
    certificate requested at the same time, unless, pursuant to
    paragraph (2) of this Section, the Director finds these
    additional fees excessive.
        (w) For issuing a permit to sell shares or increase
    paid-up capital:
            (i) in connection with a public stock offering,
        $300;
            (ii) in any other case, $100.
        (x) For issuing any other certificate required or
    permissible under the law, $50.
        (y) For filing a plan of exchange of the stock of a
    domestic stock insurance company, a plan of
    demutualization of a domestic mutual company, or a plan of
    reorganization under Article XII, $2,000.
        (z) For filing a statement of acquisition of a domestic
    company as defined in Section 131.4 of this Code, $2,000.
        (aa) For filing an agreement to purchase the business
    of an organization authorized under the Dental Service Plan
    Act or the Voluntary Health Services Plans Act or of a
    health maintenance organization or a limited health
    service organization, $2,000.
        (bb) For filing a statement of acquisition of a foreign
    or alien insurance company as defined in Section 131.12a of
    this Code, $1,000.
        (cc) For filing a registration statement as required in
    Sections 131.13 and 131.14, the notification as required by
    Sections 131.16, 131.20a, or 141.4, or an agreement or
    transaction required by Sections 124.2(2), 141, 141a, or
    141.1, $200.
        (dd) For filing an application for licensing of:
            (i) a religious or charitable risk pooling trust or
        a workers' compensation pool, $1,000;
            (ii) a workers' compensation service company,
        $500;
            (iii) a self-insured automobile fleet, $200; or
            (iv) a renewal of or amendment of any license
        issued pursuant to (i), (ii), or (iii) above, $100.
        (ee) For filing articles of incorporation for a
    syndicate to engage in the business of insurance through
    the Illinois Insurance Exchange, $2,000.
        (ff) For filing amended articles of incorporation for a
    syndicate engaged in the business of insurance through the
    Illinois Insurance Exchange, $100.
        (gg) For filing articles of incorporation for a limited
    syndicate to join with other subscribers or limited
    syndicates to do business through the Illinois Insurance
    Exchange, $1,000.
        (hh) For filing amended articles of incorporation for a
    limited syndicate to do business through the Illinois
    Insurance Exchange, $100.
        (ii) For a permit to solicit subscriptions to a
    syndicate or limited syndicate, $100.
        (jj) For the filing of each form as required in Section
    143 of this Code, $50 per form. The fee for advisory and
    rating organizations shall be $200 per form.
            (i) For the purposes of the form filing fee,
        filings made on insert page basis will be considered
        one form at the time of its original submission.
        Changes made to a form subsequent to its approval shall
        be considered a new filing.
            (ii) Only one fee shall be charged for a form,
        regardless of the number of other forms or policies
        with which it will be used.
            (iii) Fees charged for a policy filed as it will be
        issued regardless of the number of forms comprising
        that policy shall not exceed $1,500. For advisory or
        rating organizations, fees charged for a policy filed
        as it will be issued regardless of the number of forms
        comprising that policy shall not exceed $2,500
        (Blank).
            (iv) The Director may by rule exempt forms from
        such fees.
        (kk) For filing an application for licensing of a
    reinsurance intermediary, $500.
        (ll) For filing an application for renewal of a license
    of a reinsurance intermediary, $200.
    (2) When printed copies or numerous copies of the same
paper or records are furnished or certified, the Director may
reduce such fees for copies if he finds them excessive. He may,
when he considers it in the public interest, furnish without
charge to state insurance departments and persons other than
companies, copies or certified copies of reports of
examinations and of other papers and records.
    (3) The expenses incurred in any performance examination
authorized by law shall be paid by the company or person being
examined. The charge shall be reasonably related to the cost of
the examination including but not limited to compensation of
examiners, electronic data processing costs, supervision and
preparation of an examination report and lodging and travel
expenses. All lodging and travel expenses shall be in accord
with the applicable travel regulations as published by the
Department of Central Management Services and approved by the
Governor's Travel Control Board, except that out-of-state
lodging and travel expenses related to examinations authorized
under Section 132 shall be in accordance with travel rates
prescribed under paragraph 301-7.2 of the Federal Travel
Regulations, 41 C.F.R. 301-7.2, for reimbursement of
subsistence expenses incurred during official travel. All
lodging and travel expenses may be reimbursed directly upon
authorization of the Director. With the exception of the direct
reimbursements authorized by the Director, all performance
examination charges collected by the Department shall be paid
to the Insurance Producers Administration Fund, however, the
electronic data processing costs incurred by the Department in
the performance of any examination shall be billed directly to
the company being examined for payment to the Statistical
Services Revolving Fund.
    (4) At the time of any service of process on the Director
as attorney for such service, the Director shall charge and
collect the sum of $20, which may be recovered as taxable costs
by the party to the suit or action causing such service to be
made if he prevails in such suit or action.
    (5) (a) The costs incurred by the Department of Insurance
in conducting any hearing authorized by law shall be assessed
against the parties to the hearing in such proportion as the
Director of Insurance may determine upon consideration of all
relevant circumstances including: (1) the nature of the
hearing; (2) whether the hearing was instigated by, or for the
benefit of a particular party or parties; (3) whether there is
a successful party on the merits of the proceeding; and (4) the
relative levels of participation by the parties.
    (b) For purposes of this subsection (5) costs incurred
shall mean the hearing officer fees, court reporter fees, and
travel expenses of Department of Insurance officers and
employees; provided however, that costs incurred shall not
include hearing officer fees or court reporter fees unless the
Department has retained the services of independent
contractors or outside experts to perform such functions.
    (c) The Director shall make the assessment of costs
incurred as part of the final order or decision arising out of
the proceeding; provided, however, that such order or decision
shall include findings and conclusions in support of the
assessment of costs. This subsection (5) shall not be construed
as permitting the payment of travel expenses unless calculated
in accordance with the applicable travel regulations of the
Department of Central Management Services, as approved by the
Governor's Travel Control Board. The Director as part of such
order or decision shall require all assessments for hearing
officer fees and court reporter fees, if any, to be paid
directly to the hearing officer or court reporter by the
party(s) assessed for such costs. The assessments for travel
expenses of Department officers and employees shall be
reimbursable to the Director of Insurance for deposit to the
fund out of which those expenses had been paid.
    (d) The provisions of this subsection (5) shall apply in
the case of any hearing conducted by the Director of Insurance
not otherwise specifically provided for by law.
    (6) The Director shall charge and collect an annual
financial regulation fee from every domestic company for
examination and analysis of its financial condition and to fund
the internal costs and expenses of the Interstate Insurance
Receivership Commission as may be allocated to the State of
Illinois and companies doing an insurance business in this
State pursuant to Article X of the Interstate Insurance
Receivership Compact. The fee shall be the greater fixed amount
based upon the combination of nationwide direct premium income
and nationwide reinsurance assumed premium income or upon
admitted assets calculated under this subsection as follows:
        (a) Combination of nationwide direct premium income
    and nationwide reinsurance assumed premium.
            (i) $150, if the premium is less than $500,000 and
        there is no reinsurance assumed premium;
            (ii) $750, if the premium is $500,000 or more, but
        less than $5,000,000 and there is no reinsurance
        assumed premium; or if the premium is less than
        $5,000,000 and the reinsurance assumed premium is less
        than $10,000,000;
            (iii) $3,750, if the premium is less than
        $5,000,000 and the reinsurance assumed premium is
        $10,000,000 or more;
            (iv) $7,500, if the premium is $5,000,000 or more,
        but less than $10,000,000;
            (v) $18,000, if the premium is $10,000,000 or more,
        but less than $25,000,000;
            (vi) $22,500, if the premium is $25,000,000 or
        more, but less than $50,000,000;
            (vii) $30,000, if the premium is $50,000,000 or
        more, but less than $100,000,000;
            (viii) $37,500, if the premium is $100,000,000 or
        more.
        (b) Admitted assets.
            (i) $150, if admitted assets are less than
        $1,000,000;
            (ii) $750, if admitted assets are $1,000,000 or
        more, but less than $5,000,000;
            (iii) $3,750, if admitted assets are $5,000,000 or
        more, but less than $25,000,000;
            (iv) $7,500, if admitted assets are $25,000,000 or
        more, but less than $50,000,000;
            (v) $18,000, if admitted assets are $50,000,000 or
        more, but less than $100,000,000;
            (vi) $22,500, if admitted assets are $100,000,000
        or more, but less than $500,000,000;
            (vii) $30,000, if admitted assets are $500,000,000
        or more, but less than $1,000,000,000;
            (viii) $37,500, if admitted assets are
        $1,000,000,000 or more.
        (c) The sum of financial regulation fees charged to the
    domestic companies of the same affiliated group shall not
    exceed $250,000 in the aggregate in any single year and
    shall be billed by the Director to the member company
    designated by the group.
    (7) The Director shall charge and collect an annual
financial regulation fee from every foreign or alien company,
except fraternal benefit societies, for the examination and
analysis of its financial condition and to fund the internal
costs and expenses of the Interstate Insurance Receivership
Commission as may be allocated to the State of Illinois and
companies doing an insurance business in this State pursuant to
Article X of the Interstate Insurance Receivership Compact. The
fee shall be a fixed amount based upon Illinois direct premium
income and nationwide reinsurance assumed premium income in
accordance with the following schedule:
        (a) $150, if the premium is less than $500,000 and
    there is no reinsurance assumed premium;
        (b) $750, if the premium is $500,000 or more, but less
    than $5,000,000 and there is no reinsurance assumed
    premium; or if the premium is less than $5,000,000 and the
    reinsurance assumed premium is less than $10,000,000;
        (c) $3,750, if the premium is less than $5,000,000 and
    the reinsurance assumed premium is $10,000,000 or more;
        (d) $7,500, if the premium is $5,000,000 or more, but
    less than $10,000,000;
        (e) $18,000, if the premium is $10,000,000 or more, but
    less than $25,000,000;
        (f) $22,500, if the premium is $25,000,000 or more, but
    less than $50,000,000;
        (g) $30,000, if the premium is $50,000,000 or more, but
    less than $100,000,000;
        (h) $37,500, if the premium is $100,000,000 or more.
    The sum of financial regulation fees under this subsection
(7) charged to the foreign or alien companies within the same
affiliated group shall not exceed $250,000 in the aggregate in
any single year and shall be billed by the Director to the
member company designated by the group.
    (8) Beginning January 1, 1992, the financial regulation
fees imposed under subsections (6) and (7) of this Section
shall be paid by each company or domestic affiliated group
annually. After January 1, 1994, the fee shall be billed by
Department invoice based upon the company's premium income or
admitted assets as shown in its annual statement for the
preceding calendar year. The invoice is due upon receipt and
must be paid no later than June 30 of each calendar year. All
financial regulation fees collected by the Department shall be
paid to the Insurance Financial Regulation Fund. The Department
may not collect financial examiner per diem charges from
companies subject to subsections (6) and (7) of this Section
undergoing financial examination after June 30, 1992.
    (9) In addition to the financial regulation fee required by
this Section, a company undergoing any financial examination
authorized by law shall pay the following costs and expenses
incurred by the Department: electronic data processing costs,
the expenses authorized under Section 131.21 and subsection (d)
of Section 132.4 of this Code, and lodging and travel expenses.
    Electronic data processing costs incurred by the
Department in the performance of any examination shall be
billed directly to the company undergoing examination for
payment to the Statistical Services Revolving Fund. Except for
direct reimbursements authorized by the Director or direct
payments made under Section 131.21 or subsection (d) of Section
132.4 of this Code, all financial regulation fees and all
financial examination charges collected by the Department
shall be paid to the Insurance Financial Regulation Fund.
    All lodging and travel expenses shall be in accordance with
applicable travel regulations published by the Department of
Central Management Services and approved by the Governor's
Travel Control Board, except that out-of-state lodging and
travel expenses related to examinations authorized under
Sections 132.1 through 132.7 shall be in accordance with travel
rates prescribed under paragraph 301-7.2 of the Federal Travel
Regulations, 41 C.F.R. 301-7.2, for reimbursement of
subsistence expenses incurred during official travel. All
lodging and travel expenses may be reimbursed directly upon the
authorization of the Director.
    In the case of an organization or person not subject to the
financial regulation fee, the expenses incurred in any
financial examination authorized by law shall be paid by the
organization or person being examined. The charge shall be
reasonably related to the cost of the examination including,
but not limited to, compensation of examiners and other costs
described in this subsection.
    (10) Any company, person, or entity failing to make any
payment of $150 or more as required under this Section shall be
subject to the penalty and interest provisions provided for in
subsections (4) and (7) of Section 412.
    (11) Unless otherwise specified, all of the fees collected
under this Section shall be paid into the Insurance Financial
Regulation Fund.
    (12) For purposes of this Section:
        (a) "Domestic company" means a company as defined in
    Section 2 of this Code which is incorporated or organized
    under the laws of this State, and in addition includes a
    not-for-profit corporation authorized under the Dental
    Service Plan Act or the Voluntary Health Services Plans
    Act, a health maintenance organization, and a limited
    health service organization.
        (b) "Foreign company" means a company as defined in
    Section 2 of this Code which is incorporated or organized
    under the laws of any state of the United States other than
    this State and in addition includes a health maintenance
    organization and a limited health service organization
    which is incorporated or organized under the laws of any
    state of the United States other than this State.
        (c) "Alien company" means a company as defined in
    Section 2 of this Code which is incorporated or organized
    under the laws of any country other than the United States.
        (d) "Fraternal benefit society" means a corporation,
    society, order, lodge or voluntary association as defined
    in Section 282.1 of this Code.
        (e) "Mutual benefit association" means a company,
    association or corporation authorized by the Director to do
    business in this State under the provisions of Article
    XVIII of this Code.
        (f) "Burial society" means a person, firm,
    corporation, society or association of individuals
    authorized by the Director to do business in this State
    under the provisions of Article XIX of this Code.
        (g) "Farm mutual" means a district, county and township
    mutual insurance company authorized by the Director to do
    business in this State under the provisions of the Farm
    Mutual Insurance Company Act of 1986.
(Source: P.A. 93-32, eff. 7-1-03; 93-1083, eff. 2-7-05.)
 
    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
becoming law.