Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions lays out plan to consolidate insurance bills; agrees to CCR3 conceptually

The Committee on Financial Institutions and Pensions met to organize conference committee work on a package of insurance-related bills, agreeing in principle to Conference Committee Report 3 and scheduling follow-up work for the following morning.

Committee leaders outlined a conceptual plan to combine related measures — including House Bill 2334 as the base bill for a captive insurance package — and to fold duplicates into shells. Bills discussed for consolidation included HB2334, SB121, SB28, HB2046, SB32, SB23, SB42, HB2042, HB2044, HB2050, SB20, bill 2087, HB2128, 2333 and others. The committee directed that, in general, the latest agreed legislative text should be used in conference committee reports while the effective date language would be rolled back to the statute-book/register approach for most bills, with one exception noted for HB2042.

Why it matters: The items grouped under the conference committee affect insurance regulation, board appointments, fiduciary-account rules and related oversight. Consolidating duplicate measures into a smaller set of conference committee reports and shells is intended to reduce redundant paperwork and create a workable path to finalize differences between the chambers.

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