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90_SB0417enr

      New Act
          Creates the Employee Leasing Company Act to  ensure  that
      an   employer   that  leases  its  workers  obtains  workers'
      compensation insurance coverage for all of its employees  and
      that   premium   is   paid  commensurate  with  exposure  and
      anticipated claim  experience.   Provides  that  an  employee
      leasing company shall obtain a license from the Department of
      Insurance.   Provides  for  registration in order to obtain a
      license.  Provides that it is the employee leasing  company's
      responsibility  to  purchase  and  maintain a separate policy
      providing  standard  worker's  compensation  and   employers'
      liability insurance for each client company.  Provides that a
      violation   of   the  Act  is  grounds  for  cancellation  or
      nonrenewal  of  a  workers'  compensation  insurance  policy.
      Provides that insurers shall audit policies issued under this
      Act.   Contains other provisions.   Effective immediately.
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 1        AN ACT concerning certain contracts, amending named Acts.
 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:
 4        Section  5.  The  Illinois  Insurance  Code is amended by
 5    changing Section 78 as follows:
 6        (215 ILCS 5/78) (from Ch. 73, par. 690)
 7        Sec. 78. Governmental  subscribers  accounts;  dividends;
 8    other returns.
 9        (a)  The  attorney-in-fact  of a governmental reciprocal,
10    in addition to the books of account of the reciprocal,  shall
11    keep  and  maintain from and after the effective date of this
12    amendatory  Act  of  1993,  a  separate  account   for   each
13    individual  subscriber,  setting  forth  therein  the date or
14    periods of the subscriber's participation in the  reciprocal,
15    the  subscriber's  deposits,  the  savings  returned  to  the
16    subscriber and such other information as may be necessary for
17    the determination of the subscriber's proportionate share, if
18    any,  of  the  surplus  funds  of  the  reciprocal in case of
19    liquidation. The attorney-in-fact shall not  be  required  to
20    file a list of the subscribers with the Department.
21        (b)  The  board  of  directors of the attorney-in-fact of
22    any governmental reciprocal may in its discretion and subject
23    to the prior  approval  of  the  advisory  committee  of  the
24    governmental reciprocal and the Director of Insurance:
25             (1)  declare  dividends  to  its  subscribers in the
26        same manner and upon and subject to the  same  terms  and
27        conditions  as  are  provided  in  Section  54 for mutual
28        companies, except that  the  reference  to  "articles  of
29        incorporation"  in  Section 54 shall mean the declaration
30        of  organization  or  the  power  of  attorney  or  other
31        authority of the attorney-in-fact under  which  contracts
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 1        of insurance are to be exchanged pursuant to this article
 2        as applied to governmental reciprocals; and
 3             (2)  return   guaranty   fund  or  guaranty  capital
 4        contributions in the same manner and upon and subject  to
 5        the  same terms and conditions as are provided in Section
 6        56 for mutual companies  and  upon  compliance  with  the
 7        provisions  of  the agreement to subscribe (the agreement
 8        to make the contributions), if any.
 9        No payment or return of surplus  (other  than  return  of
10    guaranty fund or of guaranty capital) shall be made except in
11    accordance with this Section and sound business judgment.
12    (Source: P.A. 88-364.)
13        Section  10.  The  Service  Contract  Act  is  amended by
14    changing Section 10 as follows:
15        (215 ILCS 152/10)
16        Sec.  10.  Exemptions.  Service  contract  providers  and
17    related service contract sellers and administrators complying
18    with this Act are not required to comply  with  and  are  not
19    subject  to  any provision of the Illinois Insurance Code.  A
20    service contract  provider  who  is  the  manufacturer  or  a
21    wholly-owned subsidiary of the manufacturer of the product or
22    the  builder,  seller,  or  lessor of the product that is the
23    subject of the service contract is required  to  comply  only
24    with  Sections 30, 35, 45, and 50 of this Act; except that, a
25    service contract provider who sells a motor  vehicle  or  who
26    leases,  but  is  not  the manufacturer of, the motor vehicle
27    that is the subject of the service contract must comply  with
28    this  Act  in  its  entirety.  Contracts  for  the repair and
29    monitoring of  private  alarm  or  private  security  systems
30    regulated under the Private Detective, Private Alarm, Private
31    Security,  and  Locksmith  Act  of  1993  are not required to
32    comply with this Act and are not subject to any provision  of
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 1    the Illinois Insurance Code.
 2    (Source: P.A. 90-711, eff. 8-7-98.)
 3        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect upon
 4    becoming law.
 5                                _________________________________
 6                                President of the Senate
 7                                _________________________________
 8                                Speaker, House of Representatives

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