Bill Text - SB210 (2017)

Relative to certain positions in the insurance department.


Revision: May 19, 2017, 10:52 a.m.

SB 210 - VERSION ADOPTED BY BOTH BODIES

 

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2017 SESSION

17-0831

01/03

 

SENATE BILL 210

 

AN ACT relative to certain positions in the insurance department.

 

SPONSORS: Sen. Carson, Dist 14; Sen. Gannon, Dist 23; Sen. Reagan, Dist 17; Rep. Hunt, Ches. 11

 

COMMITTEE: Executive Departments and Administration

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill clarifies certain positions within the department of insurance.  This bill also changes the title of the director of operations to assistant commissioner.

 

This bill is a request of the insurance department.

 

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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.

Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]

Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Seventeen

 

AN ACT relative to certain positions in the insurance department.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Insurance Department;  Department Positions.  Amend RSA 400-A:6, III-a to read as follows:

III-a.  There shall be [a director of operations] an assistant commissioner who shall be appointed by the commissioner of insurance.  He or she shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner [during good behavior].  When the offices of the commissioner and deputy commissioner are vacant, or when the commissioner or deputy commissioner is unable to perform his or her duties because of mental or physical disability, the [director of operations] assistant commissioner shall be acting commissioner.  The [director of operations] assistant commissioner shall perform such duties and exercise such powers of the commissioner pursuant to RSA Title XXXVII as the commissioner from time to time may authorize.

2  Department of Insurance; Department Positions.  Amend RSA 400-A:6, VII to read as follows:

VII.  The commissioner shall appoint, as the commissioner's assistants, a director of financial regulation, a [health care policy analyst] director of health economics, a [health care statistician] director of health care analytics, a general counsel, an insurance fraud attorney, a senior insurance fraud investigator, [an assistant] a property and casualty actuary, a chief property and casualty actuary, a workers' compensation analyst, a chief life, accident and health actuary, a compliance and enforcement counsel, a chief financial examiner, and a health reform coordinator, each of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the commissioner [during good behavior].  The [health care policy analyst, health care statistician] director of financial regulation, director of health economics, director of healthcare analytics, general counsel, insurance fraud attorney, senior insurance fraud investigator, [assistant] property and casualty actuary, chief property and casualty actuary, workers' compensation analyst, chief life, accident and health actuary, compliance and enforcement counsel, chief financial examiner, and health reform coordinator, shall perform such duties and exercise such powers as the commissioner may authorize.

3  Insurance Department; Salaries of Department Positions.  Amend RSA 400-A:8, I and II to read as follows:

I.  Compensation.  The salary of the commissioner, deputy commissioner, [director of operations director of financial regulation, actuary, life, accident and health actuary] assistant commissioner, and all assistants to the commissioner shall be as prescribed in RSA 94:1-a.

II.  Expenses.  The commissioner, deputy commissioner, [director of operations, director of financial regulation, actuary, life, accident and health actuary] assistant commissioner, and [the] all assistants to the commissioner shall be allowed their traveling expenses while engaged in the performance of their duties.

4  Compensation of State Officers.  Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b), salary grade DD to read as follows:

DD Insurance department [health care statistician]

director of health care analytics

5  Compensation of State Officers.  Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b), salary grade EE to read as follows:

EE Insurance department [director of operations]

assistant commissioner

6  Compensation of State Officers.  Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b), salary grade FF to read as follows:

FF Insurance department [assistant actuary]

property and casualty actuary

FF Insurance department [health care policy analyst]

director of health economics

7  Compensation of State Officers.  Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b), salary grade HH to read as follows:

HH Insurance department [actuary]

chief property and casualty actuary

8  Compensation of State Offices.  Amend RSA 94:1-a, I(b) by inserting in salary grade HH the following:

HH Insurance department chief life, accident and health actuary

9  Repeal.  RSA 400-A:6, III-b-III-d, and VI, relative to certain positions in the department, are repealed.

10  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.