Report Title:

Insurance Commissioner; Advice and Consent of Senate; Required

Description:

Authorizes the Governor, rather than the Director of DCCA, to appoint the Insurance Commissioner, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate.

THE SENATE

S.B. NO.

1057

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to the insurance commissioner.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 26-9, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (e) to read as follows:

"(e) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the employment, appointment, promotion, transfer, demotion, discharge, and job descriptions of all officers and employees under the administrative control of this department shall be determined by the director of commerce and consumer affairs subject only to applicable personnel laws[.]; provided that the insurance commissioner shall be nominated and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appointed by the governor."

SECTION 2. Section 431:2-102, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The insurance division shall be under the supervision and control of an administrator who shall be known as the insurance commissioner. The [director of commerce and consumer affairs shall, with the approval of the] governor[,] shall nominate and, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint the insurance commissioner who shall not be subject to chapter 76. The insurance commissioner shall hold the insurance commissioner's office at the pleasure of the [director of commerce and consumer affairs] governor and shall be responsible for the performance of the duties imposed upon the division."

SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that any person appointed to the position of insurance commissioner after January 1, 2003, shall serve in an interim capacity and shall be subject to the advice and consent of the senate.

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