State of South Dakota  
EIGHTY-SEVENTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2012  

400T0175   HOUSE BILL   NO.  1034  

Introduced by:    The Committee on Commerce and Energy at the request of the Department of Labor and Regulation
 

        FOR AN ACT ENTITLED, An Act to revise the circumstances under which alterations may be made to certain insurance applications.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA:
    Section 1. That § 58-11-42 be amended to read as follows:
    58-11-42. No alteration of an application for any life or health insurance policy shall be made by any person other than the applicant without his the applicant's written consent, except that. However, insertions may be made by the insurer, for administrative purposes only, in such manner as to indicate that such insertions are not to be ascribed to the applicant. Any change to an application for administrative purposes is an addition to an application made in conjunction with the processing of the application and does not include the altering of coverage amounts, types, options selected by the applicant, or the altering of any other information provided by the applicant.

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