Georgia Senate - 1995/1996 Sessions

SB 45 - Insurance Agent - cert. cleri- cal, other employees not agents

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1. Crotts  17th           2. Isakson  21st           3. Pollard  24th
4. Starr  44th


Senate Comm: I&L        /         House Comm: Ins        /                                          
Senate Vote: Yeas 49    Nays 0                                                                      
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              Senate          Action          House                                                 
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             1/11/95   Read 1st time          1/27/95                                               
             1/24/95   Favorably Reported     2/3/95                                                
             1/25/95   Read 2nd Time          1/30/95                                               
                       Committed              3/17/95                                               
             1/26/95   Read 3rd Time                                                                
             1/26/95   Passed/Adopted                                                               
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Code Sections amended: 33-23-1                                                                      


SB 45 95                                          LC 21 2930

      SENATE BILL 45

      By:  Senators Crotts of the 17th, Isakson of the 21st,
           Pollard of the 24th and Starr of the 44th

                        A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
                               AN ACT


  1- 1  To amend Code Section 33-23-1 of the Official Code of
  1- 2  Georgia Annotated, relating to definitions relative to
  1- 3  insurance agents, subagents, counselors, and adjusters, so
  1- 4  as to provide that a regular salaried officer or employee of
  1- 5  an insurer or of an agent or subagent who performs only
  1- 6  clerical or administrative services in connection with any
  1- 7  insurance transaction and who is not involved in soliciting
  1- 8  insurance or signing or countersigning contracts shall not
  1- 9  be considered an agent, subagent, counselor, or adjuster; to
  1-10  provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws;
  1-11  and for other purposes.

  1-12       BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

                         SECTION 1.

  1-13  Code Section 33-23-1 of the Official Code of Georgia
  1-14  Annotated, relating to definitions relative to insurance
  1-15  agents, subagents, counselors, and adjusters, is amended by
  1-16  striking in its entirety paragraph (1) of subsection (b) and
  1-17  inserting in lieu thereof the following:

  1-18      "(1) Any regular salaried officer or employee of an
  1-19      insurer or of an agent or subagent who performs only
  1-20      clerical or administrative services in connection with
  1-21      any insurance transaction so long as such person is not
  1-22      involved in soliciting insurance, or signing or
  1-23      countersigning contracts, or receiving premiums;"

                         SECTION 2.

  1-24  This Act shall become effective upon its approval by the
  1-25  Governor or upon its becoming law without such approval.

                         SECTION 3.

  1-26  All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are
  1-27  repealed.




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