Act No. 222
Public Acts of 2009
Approved by the Governor
January 5, 2010
Filed with the Secretary of State
January 5, 2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 5, 2010
STATE OF MICHIGAN
95TH LEGISLATURE
REGULAR SESSION OF 2009
Introduced by Rep. Donigan
ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 5105
AN ACT to amend 1956 PA 218, entitled “An act to revise, consolidate, and classify the laws relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation or formation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide their rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which companies and associations organized, existing, or authorized under this act may exercise their powers; to provide the rights, powers, and immunities and to prescribe the conditions on which other persons, firms, corporations, associations, risk retention groups, and purchasing groups engaged in an insurance or surety business may exercise their powers; to provide for the imposition of a privilege fee on domestic insurance companies and associations and the state accident fund; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of foreign and alien companies and associations; to provide for the imposition of a tax on risk retention groups and purchasing groups; to provide for the imposition of a tax on the business of surplus line agents; to provide for the imposition of regulatory fees on certain insurers; to provide for assessment fees on certain health maintenance organizations; to modify tort liability arising out of certain accidents; to provide for limited actions with respect to that modified tort liability and to prescribe certain procedures for maintaining those actions; to require security for losses arising out of certain accidents; to provide for the continued availability and affordability of automobile insurance and homeowners insurance in this state and to facilitate the purchase of that insurance by all residents of this state at fair and reasonable rates; to provide for certain reporting with respect to insurance and with respect to certain claims against uninsured or self-insured persons; to prescribe duties for certain state departments and officers with respect to that reporting; to provide for certain assessments; to establish and continue certain state insurance funds; to modify and clarify the status, rights, powers, duties, and operations of the nonprofit malpractice insurance fund; to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state; to provide for regulation over worker’s compensation self-insurers; to provide for the conservation, rehabilitation, or liquidation of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for the protection of policyholders, claimants, and creditors of unsound or insolvent insurers; to provide for associations of insurers to protect policyholders and claimants in the event of insurer insolvencies; to prescribe educational requirements for insurance agents and solicitors; to provide for the regulation of multiple employer welfare arrangements; to create an automobile theft prevention authority to reduce the number of automobile thefts in this state; to prescribe the powers and duties of the automobile theft prevention authority; to provide certain powers and duties upon certain officials, departments, and authorities of this state; to provide for an appropriation; to repeal acts and parts of acts; and to provide penalties for the violation of this act,” by amending section 3107b (MCL 500.3107b), as added by 1994 PA 438.
The People of the State of Michigan enact:
Sec. 3107b. Reimbursement or coverage for expenses within personal protection insurance coverage under section 3107 is not required for either of the following:
(a) A practice of optometric service, unless that service was included in the definition of practice of optometry under section 17401 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.17401, as of May 20, 1992.
(b) A practice of chiropractic service, unless that service was included in the definition of practice of chiropractic under section 16401 of the public health code, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.16401, as of January 1, 2009.
Enacting section 1. This amendatory act does not take effect unless all of the following bills of the 95th Legislature are enacted into law:
(a) Senate Bill No. 968.
(b) Senate Bill No. 970.
(c) Senate Bill No. 971.
(d) Senate Bill No. 972.
(e) Senate Bill No. 973.
(f) House Bill No. 5091.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Clerk of the House of Representatives
Secretary of the Senate
Approved
Governor
Compiler's note: The bills referred to in enacting section 1 were enacted into law as follows:
Senate Bill No. 968 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 223, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.
Senate Bill No. 970 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 224, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.
Senate Bill No. 971 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 225, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.
Senate Bill No. 972 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 226, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.
Senate Bill No. 973 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 227, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.
House Bill No. 5091 was filed with the Secretary of State January 5, 2010, and became 2009 PA 221, Imd. Eff. Jan. 5, 2010.