CT Gen Stat § 38a-48. (Formerly Sec. 38-53b) (2020)
2020 Connecticut General Statutes|Title 38a - Insurance|Chapter 698 - Insurers|Section 38a-48. (Formerly Sec. 38-53b) - Assessment of payments by domestic insurance companies. Adjustments. Penalty. Interest. Payments credited to Insurance Fund. Allocation of assessments.

 (a) On or before June thirtieth, annually, the Commissioner of Revenue Services shall render to the Insurance Commissioner a statement certifying the amount of taxes or charges imposed on each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity under chapter 207 on business done in this state during the preceding calendar year. The statement for local domestic insurance companies shall set forth the amount of taxes and charges before any tax credits allowed as provided in subsection (a) of section 12-202.(b) On or before July thirty-first, annually, the Insurance Commissioner and the Office of the Healthcare Advocate shall render to each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity liable for payment under section 38a-47: (1) A statement that includes (A) the amount appropriated to the Insurance Department, the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund established under section 38a-52a for the fiscal year beginning July first of the same year, (B) the cost of fringe benefits for department and office personnel for such year, as estimated by the Comptroller, (C) the estimated expenditures on behalf of the department and the offices from the Capital Equipment Purchase Fund pursuant to section 4a-9 for such year, not including such estimated expenditures made on behalf of the Health Systems Planning Unit of the Office of Health Strategy, and (D) the amount appropriated to the Department of Aging and Disability Services for the fall prevention program established in section 17a-303a from the Insurance Fund for the fiscal year; (2) a statement of the total taxes imposed on all domestic insurance companies and domestic insurance entities under chapter 207 on business done in this state during the preceding calendar year; and (3) the proposed assessment against that company or entity, calculated in accordance with the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, provided for the purposes of this calculation the amount appropriated to the Insurance Department, the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund plus the cost of fringe benefits for department and office personnel and the estimated expenditures on behalf of the department and the office from the Capital Equipment Purchase Fund pursuant to section 4a-9, not including such expenditures made on behalf of the Health Systems Planning Unit of the Office of Health Strategy shall be deemed to be the actual expenditures of the department and the office, and the amount appropriated to the Department of Aging and Disability Services from the Insurance Fund for the fiscal year for the fall prevention program established in section 17a-303a shall be deemed to be the actual expenditures for the program.(c) (1) The proposed assessments for each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity shall be calculated by (A) allocating twenty per cent of the amount to be paid under section 38a-47 among the domestic entities organized under sections 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, in proportion to their respective shares of the total taxes and charges imposed under chapter 207 on such entities on business done in this state during the preceding calendar year, and (B) allocating eighty per cent of the amount to be paid under section 38a-47 among all domestic insurance companies and domestic entities other than those organized under sections 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, in proportion to their respective shares of the total taxes and charges imposed under chapter 207 on such domestic insurance companies and domestic entities on business done in this state during the preceding calendar year, provided if there are no domestic entities organized under sections 38a-199 to 38a-209, inclusive, and 38a-214 to 38a-225, inclusive, at the time of assessment, one hundred per cent of the amount to be paid under section 38a-47 shall be allocated among such domestic insurance companies and domestic entities.(2) When the amount any such company or entity is assessed pursuant to this section exceeds twenty-five per cent of the actual expenditures of the Insurance Department, the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund, such excess amount shall not be paid by such company or entity but rather shall be assessed against and paid by all other such companies and entities in proportion to their respective shares of the total taxes and charges imposed under chapter 207 on business done in this state during the preceding calendar year, except that for purposes of any assessment made to fund payments to the Department of Public Health to purchase vaccines, such company or entity shall be responsible for its share of the costs, notwithstanding whether its assessment exceeds twenty-five per cent of the actual expenditures of the Insurance Department, the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund. The provisions of this subdivision shall not be applicable to any corporation which has converted to a domestic mutual insurance company pursuant to section 38a-155 upon the effective date of any public act which amends said section to modify or remove any restriction on the business such a company may engage in, for purposes of any assessment due from such company on and after such effective date.(d) For purposes of calculating the amount of payment under section 38a-47, as well as the amount of the assessments under this section, the “total taxes imposed on all domestic insurance companies and other domestic entities under chapter 207” shall be based upon the amounts shown as payable to the state for the calendar year on the returns filed with the Commissioner of Revenue Services pursuant to chapter 207; with respect to calculating the amount of payment and assessment for local domestic insurance companies, the amount used shall be the taxes and charges imposed before any tax credits allowed as provided in subsection (a) of section 12-202.(e) On or before September thirtieth, annually, for each fiscal year ending prior to July 1, 1990, the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate, after receiving any objections to the proposed assessments and making such adjustments as in their opinion may be indicated, shall assess each such domestic insurance company or other domestic entity an amount equal to its proposed assessment as so adjusted. Each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner on or before October thirty-first an amount equal to fifty per cent of its assessment adjusted to reflect any credit or amount due from the preceding fiscal year as determined by the commissioner under subsection (g) of this section. Each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner on or before the following April thirtieth, the remaining fifty per cent of its assessment.(f) On or before September first, annually, for each fiscal year ending after July 1, 1990, the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate, after receiving any objections to the proposed assessments and making such adjustments as in their opinion may be indicated, shall assess each such domestic insurance company or other domestic entity an amount equal to its proposed assessment as so adjusted. Each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner (1) on or before June 30, 1990, and on or before June thirtieth annually thereafter, an estimated payment against its assessment for the following year equal to twenty-five per cent of its assessment for the fiscal year ending such June thirtieth, (2) on or before September thirtieth, annually, twenty-five per cent of its assessment adjusted to reflect any credit or amount due from the preceding fiscal year as determined by the commissioner under subsection (g) of this section, and (3) on or before the following December thirty-first and March thirty-first, annually, each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity shall pay to the Insurance Commissioner the remaining fifty per cent of its proposed assessment to the department in two equal installments.(g) If the actual expenditures for the fall prevention program established in section 17a-303a are less than the amount allocated, the Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services shall notify the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate. Immediately following the close of the fiscal year, the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate shall recalculate the proposed assessment for each domestic insurance company or other domestic entity in accordance with subsection (c) of this section using the actual expenditures made during the fiscal year by the Insurance Department, the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund, the actual expenditures made on behalf of the department and the offices from the Capital Equipment Purchase Fund pursuant to section 4a-9, not including such expenditures made on behalf of the Health Systems Planning Unit of the Office of Health Strategy, and the actual expenditures for the fall prevention program. On or before July thirty-first, the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate shall render to each such domestic insurance company and other domestic entity a statement showing the difference between their respective recalculated assessments and the amount they have previously paid. On or before August thirty-first, the Insurance Commissioner and the Healthcare Advocate, after receiving any objections to such statements, shall make such adjustments which in their opinion may be indicated, and shall render an adjusted assessment, if any, to the affected companies.(h) If any assessment is not paid when due, a penalty of twenty-five dollars shall be added thereto, and interest at the rate of six per cent per annum shall be paid thereafter on such assessment and penalty.(i) The Insurance Commissioner shall deposit all payments made under this section with the State Treasurer. On and after June 6, 1991, the moneys so deposited shall be credited to the Insurance Fund established under section 38a-52a and shall be accounted for as expenses recovered from insurance companies.(P.A. 80-482, S. 281, 345, 348; P.A. 82-26, S. 2; P.A. 84-185, S. 1; P.A. 88-326, S. 1, 11; P.A. 89-165, S. 2, 3; P.A. 90-148, S. 26, 34; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14, S. 13, 30; P.A. 92-60, S. 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9, S. 67, 131; P.A. 05-102, S. 4; P.A. 06-113, S. 1; P.A. 08-178, S. 3; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5, S. 54; P.A. 14-116, S. 2; 14-217, S. 70; P.A. 17-15, S. 5; 17-125, S. 4, 5; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2, S. 313; P.A. 18-91, S. 65; 18-169, S. 37; P.A. 19-157, S. 89, 90.)History: P.A. 82-26 amended Subsec. (b) to provide that the comptroller rather than administrative services department estimate fringe benefit costs for insurance department personnel; P.A. 84-185 amended Subsec. (g) to provide for a $10 penalty on overdue assessments and to provide the interest charges shall accrue on both the assessment and penalty; P.A. 88-326 inserted a new Subsec. (c)(2) concerning assessments which exceed 25% of the expenditures of the insurance department; P.A. 89-165 amended Subsec. (b)(1) to provide that the statement rendered to each insurance company include the estimated expenditures on behalf of the department from the capital equipment purchase fund, amended Subsec. (b)(3) to provide that the proposed assessment against each company be calculated to include such estimated expenditures, amended Subsec. (f) to provide that when the proposed assessment is recalculated the actual expenditures from such fund shall be used and deleted Subsec. (i); P.A. 90-148 amended Subsec. (e) to make assessment procedure therein applicable to state fiscal years ending prior to July 1, 1990, and inserted a new Subsec. (f), with appropriate changes in lettering for succeeding subsections, applicable to state fiscal years ending after July 1, 1990, providing for assessment procedures very similar to those in Subsec. (e) except that on June thirtieth annually, first payable June 30, 1990, each domestic company shall make an estimated payment for the following year, such payment being in addition to payments of 25% of the company's assessment for the year in each of September, December and March following; Sec. 38-53b transferred to Sec. 38a-48 in 1991; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14 amended Subsec. (i) to provide that on and after June 6, 1991, moneys deposited with treasurer shall be credited to insurance fund, rather than general fund; P.A. 92-60 amended Subsec. (c) by changing the manner of assessment for domestic entities organized under certain sections of the insurance statutes; (Revisor's note: In 1997 in Subsec. (i) the phrase “... the Insurance Fund and established under section 38a-52a ...” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “... the Insurance Fund established under section 38a-52a and ...” thereby correcting an error in the codification of June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-14, S. 13); June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-9 added provisions re the Office of the Managed Care Ombudsman in Subsecs. (b), (c), and (e) to (g), effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 05-102 amended Subsecs. (b), (c), (e), (f) and (g) by renaming the Office of the Managed Care Ombudsman the Office of the Healthcare Advocate and making technical and conforming changes; P.A. 06-113 amended Subsec. (c)(2) to add exception for purposes of any assessment made to fund payments to Department of Public Health to purchase vaccines, making company or entity responsible for its share of costs, notwithstanding whether its assessment exceeds 25% of actual expenditures of Insurance Department and Office of the Healthcare Advocate, effective July 1, 2006; P.A. 08-178 increased penalty from $10 to $25 in Subsec. (h); Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-5 amended Subsec. (a) by making a technical change, amended Subsec. (b)(1) by designating existing provisions re content of statement as Subparas. (A) to (C) and adding Subpara. (D) requiring statement to include amount appropriated to Department of Social Services for fall prevention program, amended Subsec. (b)(3) by adding provision re amount appropriated to Department of Social Services for fall prevention program deemed to be actual program expenditures, and amended Subsec. (g) by adding provision requiring Commissioner of Social Services to notify Insurance Commissioner and Healthcare Advocate if expenditures for fall prevention program are less than amount allocated and adding provision requiring recalculated proposed assessment to include actual expenditures for fall prevention program, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 14-116 amended Subsecs. (b) and (g) to change “Department of Social Services” to “Department on Aging”, effective June 6, 2014; P.A. 14-217 made identical changes as P.A. 14-116, effective June 13, 2014; P.A. 17-15 made technical changes in Subsec. (b); P.A. 17-125 replaced references to Sec. 12-202 with references to Sec. 12-202(a) in Subsecs. (a) and (d), effective July 1, 2017; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 17-2 replaced “Department on Aging” with “Department of Social Services” in Subsec. (b) and replaced “Commissioner on Aging” with “Commissioner of Social Services” in Subsec. (g), effective October 31, 2017; P.A. 18-91 amended Subsec. (b)(1)(A) by adding “and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund established under section 38a-52a”, amended Subsec. (b)(1)(C) by adding provision re estimated expenditures made on behalf of Health Systems Planning Unit, amended Subsec. (b)(3) by adding “and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund” and adding provision re expenditures made on behalf of Health Systems Planning Unit, amended Subsec. (c)(2) by adding “and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund”, amended Subsec. (g) by adding “and the Office of Health Strategy from the Insurance Fund” and adding provision re expenditures made on behalf of Health Systems Planning Unit, and made technical and conforming changes, effective May 14, 2018; P.A. 18-169 replaced “Department of Social Services” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services” in Subsec. (b), replaced “Commissioner of Social Services” with “Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services” in Subsec. (g), and replaced “commissioner” with “Insurance Commissioner” in Subsec. (i), effective June 14, 2018; P.A. 19-157 amended Subsec. (b) by replacing “Department of Rehabilitation Services” with “Department of Aging and Disability Services” and amended Subsec. (g) by replacing “Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services” with “Commissioner of Aging and Disability Services”.