BILL · 2019–20 SESSION
SB 6146: Legal service contractors
Regulating legal service contractors.
Summary
- Gives the Office of the Insurance Commissioner (OIC) specified oversight authority regarding legal service contractors and legal service plans and rulemaking authority.
- Requires a legal service contractor to obtain an OIC-issued registration certificate and comply with enumerated standards, regulations, and duties to do business in Washington.
- Sets standards for legal services plans, including written providing attorney agreements, while authorizing the OIC to review all versions of the legal service plan, and requires plan marketers to be licensed as insurance producers.
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Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 13, 2020
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Mark Mullet (D-5)
- Introduced
- January 13, 2020 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 13, 2020
- Companion bill
- HB 2306
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to the regulation of legal service contractors;
Sponsors
Prime sponsor: Mark Mullet (D-5)
3 co-sponsors (1 Democrat, 2 Republicans)
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
- Prefiled for introduction.
SB 6146 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6146 (2025–26) Preventive dental care
- SB 6146 (2023–24) Tribal warrants
- SB 6146 (2017–18) Local gov firearm regulation
- SB 6146 (2015–16) Breast health information
- SB 6146 (2013–14) County electronic auctions
- SB 6146 (2011–12) Public records charges
- SB 6146 (2009–10) Gambling commission
- SB 6146 (2007–08) Military monuments