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The Insurance Commissioner Bill
Kansas insurance commissioner can set new rules for life insurers
Authorizing the commissioner of insurance to select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations and documents in effect for the upcoming calendar year and cause such announcement to be published in the Kansas register, allowing certain life insurers to follow health financial reports and adopting certain provisions from the national association of insurance commissioners holding company system regulatory act relating to group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.
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The bill would let Kansas' insurance commissioner pick the rules and calculations life insurers must follow next year, aiming to keep them financially strong.
Our take
What we think, in plain words.
If passed, insurers will have one clear set of guidelines, which could help them stay solvent and protect policyholders, but the bill adds no new consumer protections.
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The facts
What the bill actually says, no spin.
- The commissioner of insurance can select and announce the version of certain instructions, calculations, and documents for the next calendar year.
- The announcement must be published in the Kansas Register.
- The bill allows certain life insurers to follow health financial reports.
- It adopts provisions from the NAIC holding company system regulatory act on group capital calculations and liquidity stress testing.
- The bill has passed the House and is currently engrossed in the Senate.
How they voted
The actual floor vote, and who broke from their own party.
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- Sydney Carlin (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Cindy Neighbor (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Tom Sawyer (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Barbara Ballard (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Stephanie Clayton (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Virgil Weigel (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Pam Curtis (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
- Henry Helgerson (D): voted for it, crossing most Democrats
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