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 1                    AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 1265

 2        AMENDMENT NO.     .  Amend House Bill 1265  by  replacing
 3    the title with the following:
 4        "AN  ACT to amend the Illinois Insurance Code by changing
 5    Section 424."; and

 6    by replacing everything after the enacting  clause  with  the
 7    following:

 8        "Section  5.   The  Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
 9    changing Section 424 as follows:

10        (215 ILCS 5/424) (from Ch. 73, par. 1031)
11        Sec. 424.  Unfair methods of competition  and  unfair  or
12    deceptive acts or practices defined. The following are hereby
13    defined  as  unfair  methods  of  competition  and unfair and
14    deceptive acts or practices in the business of insurance:
15        (1)  The commission by any person of any one or  more  of
16    the  acts  defined  or  prohibited by Sections 134, 147, 148,
17    149, 151, 155.22, 155.22a, 236, 237,  364  and  469  of  this
18    Code.
19        (2)  Entering  into  any  agreement  to commit, or by any
20    concerted action committing, any act of boycott, coercion  or
21    intimidation   resulting   in   or   tending   to  result  in
 
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 1    unreasonable restraint of, or monopoly in,  the  business  of
 2    insurance.  "Unreasonable  restraint"  includes,  but  is not
 3    limited to, any formal or informal  policy  that  requires  a
 4    licensed  health  care professional or group of professionals
 5    to agree to participate in all health care  or  managed  care
 6    plans  or  accident  and  health  policies  operated  by  the
 7    insurance  company  in  order  to  participate in one or more
 8    plans or policies  operated  by  the  insurance  company.   A
 9    licensed    health    care   professional's   or   group   of
10    professionals' decision not to accept an offer to participate
11    in one or more plans shall not be  the  grounds  for  denying
12    participation  in any chosen plan or policy.  If an agreement
13    is signed by an  authorized  representative  of  a  group  of
14    health  care professionals, then the agreement shall apply to
15    all members of the  group  unless  stated  otherwise  in  the
16    agreement.   A  licensed insurance company that violates this
17    subsection engages  in  unlawful  tying  practices  that  are
18    unfair  methods  of competition and unfair and deceptive acts
19    or practices.
20        (3)  Making or permitting, in the case  of  insurance  of
21    the  types  enumerated  in  Classes 2 and 3 of Section 4, any
22    unfair discrimination between individuals  or  risks  of  the
23    same  class  or  of  essentially  the same hazard and expense
24    element because of the  race,  color,  religion  or  national
25    origin of such insurance risks or applicants.
26        (4)  Engaging  in any of the acts or practices defined in
27    or prohibited by Sections 154.5 through  154.8  of  the  this
28    Insurance Code.
29        (5)  Making  or  charging  any rate for insurance against
30    losses arising from the use or ownership of a  motor  vehicle
31    which  requires  a  higher premium of any person by reason of
32    his physical handicap,  race,  color,  religion  or  national
33    origin.
34    (Source: P.A. 90-245, eff. 1-1-98.)
 
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 1        Section  99.  Effective date.  This Act takes effect July
 2    1, 1999.".

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