Minnesota Session Laws - 1996, Regular Session

  
    
KEY: stricken = old language to be removed
     underscored = new language to be added
    
                            CHAPTER 433-H.F.No. 3052 
                  An act relating to insurance; clarifying that existing 
                  law prohibits insurers from terminating agents as a 
                  result of contacts with any branch of government; 
                  amending Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 72A.20, 
                  subdivision 20. 
        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
           Section 1.  Minnesota Statutes 1994, section 72A.20, 
        subdivision 20, is amended to read: 
           Subd. 20.  [CONTACT WITH DEPARTMENT GOVERNMENT.] An 
        insurance company may not terminate or otherwise penalize an 
        insurance agent solely because the agent contacted any 
        government department or agency regarding a problem that the 
        agent or an insured may be having with an insurance 
        company.  For purposes of this section, "government department 
        or agency" includes the executive, legislative, and judicial 
        branches of government as stated in article III of the 
        Constitution. 
           Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
           Section 1 is a clarification of the legislature's intent in 
        originally enacting Minnesota Statutes, section 72A.20, 
        subdivision 20, and section 1 is therefore effective 
        retroactively to May 18, 1989, which was the effective date of 
        that statute as originally enacted. 
           Presented to the governor April 1, 1996 
           Signed by the governor April 3, 1996, 3:12 p.m.