Legislation


HB 2479 – West Virginia

Status: Enacted
Year Introduced: 2019
Link: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2479&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill

Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act: AN ACT to amend and reenact §33-33-2, §33-33-12 and §33-33-16 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §33-33-12a; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §33-52-1, §33-52-2, §33-52-3, §33-52-4, §33-52-5, §33-52-6, §33-52-7, §33-52-8, and §33-52-9, all relating to the corporate governance practices of an insurance company or a group of insurers; defining internal audit function; making an insurer’s audit committee responsible for overseeing the insurer’s internal audit function; providing that certain insurers must establish an internal audit function with respect to the insurer’s governance, risk management, and internal controls; requiring the head of an insurer’s internal audit function to report to the insurer’s audit committee regularly, but no less than annually, about the periodic audit plan, factors that may adversely impact the internal audit function’s independence or effectiveness, material findings from completed audits and the appropriateness of corrective actions implemented by management as a result of audit findings; exempting certain insurers from the internal audit function requirements; stating purpose of Corporate Governance Annual Disclosure Act; defining terms; requiring an insurer to annually submit to the insurance commissioner a corporate governance annual disclosure; describing the contents of the corporate governance annual disclosure; requiring that the corporate governance annual disclosure include a signature of the insurer’s chief executive officer or corporate secretary; permitting the insurer to choose the corporate level that the corporate governance annual disclosure is applicable, depending upon how the insurer has structured its corporate governance system; allowing the insurer to comply with the corporate governance annual disclosure requirements by cross referencing other documents or referencing documents already in the possession of the insurance commissioner; requiring that documents and other information related to the corporate governance annual disclosure be confidential and privileged; permitting the insurance commissioner to share documents, materials or other corporate governance annual disclosure-related information with National Association of Insurance Commissioners and other regulatory bodies; providing that the insurance commissioner may retain third-party consultants to assist the commissioner in reviewing the corporate governance annual disclosure and related information; subjecting such third-party consultants and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to the same confidentiality standards as the insurance commissioner; setting forth the penalty for an insurer that fails to timely provide a corporate governance annual disclosure to the insurance commissioner; and providing for effective dates.


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