(1)
(a) The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services may establish or participate in a temporary or a permanent supervisory college for any domestic insurer that is:
- (A) Registered under ORS 732.551; and
- (B) Part of an insurance holding company system that has international operations.
(b) The director may establish or participate in a supervisory college in order to:
- (A) Ensure that the insurer complies with the Insurance Code;
(B) Assess the insurer’s:
- (i) Financial, legal and regulatory position;
- (ii) Risk exposure and risk management; or
- (iii) Governance processes; or
- (C) Examine an individual insurer under ORS 732.584.
- (c) The director may participate in a supervisory college with state, federal, international or other regulatory agencies that supervise the insurer or the insurer’s affiliates.
(2)
(a) As part of the director’s establishment of or participation in a supervisory college, the director may:
- (A) Specify criteria under which other regulatory agencies may become members of and participate in the supervisory college;
- (B) Specify the functions of the supervisory college and the roles that other regulatory agencies will undertake in the supervisory college;
- (C) Establish a leader among the regulatory agencies that participate in the supervisory college;
- (D) Plan meetings and supervisory actions, specify processes for sharing information and otherwise coordinate the activities of the supervisory college;
- (E) Draft a crisis management plan;
- (F) Determine how long the director will participate in any supervisory college; and
- (G) Take other actions that are necessary to participate in or facilitate a supervisory college’s operations.
- (b) The director may enter into agreements with other regulatory agencies under ORS 705.137 for any of the purposes identified in paragraph (a) of this subsection.
- (3) An insurer that is registered under ORS 732.517 to 732.596 is liable to and shall pay to the director a reasonable amount that is equal to the expenses, including reasonable travel expenses, that the director incurs as a result of the director’s participation in a supervisory college under this section. The director may assess the insurer regularly in order to pay the expenses.
- (4) This section does not delegate to a supervisory college the director’s authority within this state to regulate or supervise an insurer or the insurer’s affiliates.
[2013 c.370 §11]