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90_HB2860

      215 ILCS 5/155.22b new
          Amends the Illinois  Insurance  Code.   Provides  that  a
      company may not use the fact that an applicant or insured was
      injured  as  a  result  of a battery committed by a spouse or
      person in the same household as the sole basis of  a  rating,
      underwriting,   or   claims   handling  decision.   Effective
      immediately.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Illinois  Insurance  Code  by  adding
 2    Section 155.22b.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Illinois Insurance  Code  is  amended  by
 6    adding Section 155.22b as follows:
 7        (215 ILCS 5/155.22b new)
 8        Sec.  155.22b.  Rating decision; battery.  No company may
 9    use the fact that an applicant  or  insured  incurred  bodily
10    injury  as a result of a battery committed against him or her
11    by a spouse or person in the same household as a sole  reason
12    for a rating, underwriting, or claims handling decision.
13        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
14    becoming law.

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