Bill Text: IL SB3718 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurance company that provides automobile liability insurance to any registered vehicle required to have liability coverage under the Illinois Vehicle Code must notify the Secretary within 30 days after a policy cancellation. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, within 30 days after an insurance company notifies the Secretary of a liability insurance policy cancellation, the Secretary of State shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that is the subject of the canceled liability insurance policy that the owner has 30 days after the issuance of the notice to provide verification of a liability insurance policy for the vehicle and that, if the owner fails to provide the verification with the 30-day period, the Secretary shall cancel the owner's license or permit until the owner provides the required verification.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-09 - Referred to Assignments [SB3718 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3718-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3718 Introduced 2/9/2024, by Sen. Adriane Johnson SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
215 ILCS 5/143.19.4 new
625 ILCS 5/6-201
Amends the Illinois Insurance Code. Provides that an insurance company that provides automobile liability insurance to any registered vehicle required to have liability coverage under the Illinois Vehicle Code must notify the Secretary within 30 days after a policy cancellation. Amends the Illinois Vehicle Code. Provides that, within 30 days after an insurance company notifies the Secretary of a liability insurance policy cancellation, the Secretary of State shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that is the subject of the canceled liability insurance policy that the owner has 30 days after the issuance of the notice to provide verification of a liability insurance policy for the vehicle and that, if the owner fails to provide the verification with the 30-day period, the Secretary shall cancel the owner's license or permit until the owner provides the required verification.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning transportation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Illinois Insurance Code is amended by
adding Section 143.19.4 as follows:
(215 ILCS 5/143.19.4 new)
Sec. 143.19.4. Cancellation of automobile liability
insurance policy; reporting. An insurance company that
provides automobile liability insurance to any registered
vehicle subject to Section 7-601 of the Illinois Vehicle Code
must notify the Secretary within 30 days after a policy
cancellation.
Section 10. The Illinois Vehicle Code is amended by
changing Section 6-201 as follows:
(625 ILCS 5/6-201)
Sec. 6-201. Authority to cancel licenses and permits.
(a) The Secretary of State is authorized to cancel any
license or permit upon determining that the holder thereof:
1. was not entitled to the issuance thereof hereunder;
or
2. failed to give the required or correct information

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in his application; or
3. failed to pay any fees owed to the Secretary of
State under this Code for the license or permit; or
4. committed any fraud in the making of such
application; or
5. is ineligible therefor under the provisions of
Section 6-103 of this Act, as amended; or
6. has refused or neglected to submit an alcohol,
drug, and intoxicating compound evaluation or to submit to
examination or re-examination as required under this Act;
or
7. has been convicted of violating the Cannabis
Control Act, the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, the
Methamphetamine Control and Community Protection Act, or
the Use of Intoxicating Compounds Act while that
individual was in actual physical control of a motor
vehicle. For purposes of this Section, any person placed
on probation under Section 10 of the Cannabis Control Act,
Section 410 of the Illinois Controlled Substances Act, or
Section 70 of the Methamphetamine Control and Community
Protection Act shall not be considered convicted. Any
person found guilty of this offense, while in actual
physical control of a motor vehicle, shall have an entry
made in the court record by the judge that this offense did
occur while the person was in actual physical control of a
motor vehicle and order the clerk of the court to report

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the violation to the Secretary of State as such. After the
cancellation, the Secretary of State shall not issue a new
license or permit for a period of one year after the date
of cancellation. However, upon application, the Secretary
of State may, if satisfied that the person applying will
not endanger the public safety, or welfare, issue a
restricted driving permit granting the privilege of
driving a motor vehicle between the petitioner's residence
and petitioner's place of employment or within the scope
of the petitioner's employment related duties, or to allow
transportation for the petitioner or a household member of
the petitioner's family for the receipt of necessary
medical care, or provide transportation for the petitioner
to and from alcohol or drug remedial or rehabilitative
activity recommended by a licensed service provider, or
for the petitioner to attend classes, as a student, in an
accredited educational institution. The petitioner must
demonstrate that no alternative means of transportation is
reasonably available; provided that the Secretary's
discretion shall be limited to cases where undue hardship,
as defined by the rules of the Secretary of State, would
result from a failure to issue such restricted driving
permit. In each case the Secretary of State may issue such
restricted driving permit for such period as he deems
appropriate, except that such permit shall expire no later
than 2 years from the date of issuance. A restricted

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driving permit issued hereunder shall be subject to
cancellation, revocation and suspension by the Secretary
of State in like manner and for like cause as a driver's
license issued hereunder may be cancelled, revoked or
suspended; except that a conviction upon one or more
offenses against laws or ordinances regulating the
movement of traffic shall be deemed sufficient cause for
the revocation, suspension or cancellation of a restricted
driving permit. The Secretary of State may, as a condition
to the issuance of a restricted driving permit, require
the applicant to participate in a driver remedial or
rehabilitative program. In accordance with 49 C.F.R. 384,
the Secretary of State may not issue a restricted driving
permit for the operation of a commercial motor vehicle to
a person holding a CDL whose driving privileges have been
revoked, suspended, cancelled, or disqualified under this
Code; or
8. failed to submit a report as required by Section
6-116.5 of this Code; or
9. has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in
the Sex Offender Registration Act. The driver's license
shall remain cancelled until the driver registers as a sex
offender as required by the Sex Offender Registration Act,
proof of the registration is furnished to the Secretary of
State and the sex offender provides proof of current
address to the Secretary; or

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10. is ineligible for a license or permit under
Section 6-107, 6-107.1, or 6-108 of this Code; or
11. refused or neglected to appear at a Driver
Services facility to have the license or permit corrected
and a new license or permit issued or to present
documentation for verification of identity; or
12. failed to submit a medical examiner's certificate
or medical variance as required by 49 C.F.R. 383.71 or
submitted a fraudulent medical examiner's certificate or
medical variance; or
13. has had his or her medical examiner's certificate,
medical variance, or both removed or rescinded by the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; or
14. failed to self-certify as to the type of driving
in which the CDL driver engages or expects to engage; or
15. has submitted acceptable documentation indicating
out-of-state residency to the Secretary of State to be
released from the requirement of showing proof of
financial responsibility in this State; or
16. was convicted of fraud relating to the testing or
issuance of a CDL or CLP, in which case only the CDL or CLP
shall be cancelled. After cancellation, the Secretary
shall not issue a CLP or CDL for a period of one year from
the date of cancellation; or
17. has a special restricted license under subsection
(g) of Section 6-113 of this Code and failed to submit the

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required annual vision specialist report that the special
restricted license holder's vision has not changed; or
18. has a special restricted license under subsection
(g) of Section 6-113 of this Code and was convicted or
received court supervision for a violation of this Code
that occurred during nighttime hours or was involved in a
motor vehicle crash during nighttime hours in which the
restricted license holder was at fault; or
19. has assisted an out-of-state resident in acquiring
an Illinois driver's license or identification card by
providing or allowing the out-of-state resident to use his
or her Illinois address of residence and is complicit in
distributing and forwarding the Illinois driver's license
or identification card to the out-of-state resident; or .
20. has failed to provide verification of a liability
insurance policy as required under Section 7-601 of this
Code after an insurance company has notified the Secretary
of State of a policy cancellation as required under
Section 143.19.4 of the Illinois Insurance Code and the
compliance period under this paragraph has expired. Within
30 days after an insurance company notifies the Secretary
of a liability insurance policy cancellation under Section
143.19.4 of the Illinois Insurance Code, the Secretary of
State shall notify the owner of the motor vehicle that is
the subject of the canceled liability insurance policy
that the owner has 30 days after the issuance of the notice

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