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Committee ups insurer notice window for new home policies to 30 days; bill laid over
Summary
The Senate Commerce Committee approved an amendment to extend the notice period for newly issued homeowners policies to 30 days, after a legislator described a near loss of bundled insurance and insurers warned of tradeoffs for binding new coverage.
Senate File 665, a proposal to alter notice periods for insurance cancellations and new policy issuance, received committee attention on April 1 after a senator described a personal experience with a short 20‑day notice that threatened her bundled auto and home coverages.
What the committee did: The committee adopted an A3 amendment that increases the notice period for new policies from 20 days to 30 days. Senator Umuver Batten (transcript name varies) explained she received a 20‑day cancellation notice on a newly…
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