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Committee approves OSI technical changes to insurance licensing time frames and fees (HB 369)
Summary
The committee approved an amendment and advanced House Bill 369, an Office of Superintendent of Insurance (OSI) bill that clarifies licensing deadlines, fee language and code consistency; sponsors described the measure as technical cleanup.
The committee approved an amendment offered by the Office of Superintendent of Insurance and issued a due-pass recommendation on House Bill 369, a technical OSI bill that modifies certain time frames and licensing fees in state insurance law.
Representative Hernandez introduced the bill and deferred technical questions to OSI staff in committee. Elizabeth Johnson, associate general counsel for OSI, and Victoria Baca, licensing director, explained the amendment addressed technical issues identified in the fiscal-impact review and ensured statutory language matches the rest of the insurance code.
Committee members asked a few clarifying questions about the amendment’s specific line items — including a provision that mirrors language elsewhere in statute — and the committee adopted the OSI amendment by unanimous consent. The chair then called for a due-pass motion; the committee reported the bill out with a due pass on the amended language. The transcript records the do-pass announcement; the detailed roll-call tally is not printed in the excerpt provided.
OSI said the changes bring statutory language into alignment with existing practice and statute elsewhere in the code; the amendment corrects cross-references and mirrors phrasing used in related sections to reduce legal ambiguity.
