Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:972 Primary Sponsor:Saleeby Committee Number:02 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Automobile insurance policy Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Banking and Insurance Computer Document Number:BBM/10785JM.94 Introduced Date:19940111 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19940111 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Saleeby Land McConnell Courtney Rankin Type of Legislation:General Bill
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972 Senate 19940111 Introduced, read first time, 02
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND SECTION 38-77-30, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF "AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE", SO AS TO DELETE CERTAIN LANGUAGE AND PROVIDE THAT AN AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE POLICY INCLUDES A MOTOR VEHICLE LIABILITY POLICY DEFINED IN SECTION 56-9-20 AND ANY NAMED NONOWNER AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE POLICY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 38-77-30(1) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 443 of 1992, is further amended to read:
"(1) `Automobile insurance' means automobile bodily injury and property damage liability insurance, including medical payments and uninsured motorist coverage, and automobile physical damage insurance such as automobile comprehensive physical damage, collision, fire, theft, combined additional coverage, and similar automobile physical damage insurance and economic loss benefits as provided by this chapter written or offered by automobile insurers. An automobile insurance policy includes a motor vehicle liability policy as defined in item (7) of Section 56-9-20 and any named nonowner automobile insurance policy which covers an individual private passenger automobile not owned by the insured, a family member of the insured, or a resident of the same household as the insured."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.