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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Bills (HB 33, SB 90) changing the current enforcement of the ban on texting while driving from secondary to primary, which will allow a law enforcement officer to stop a vehicle solely for texting while driving, passed committees in the House and Senate during the first week of the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill to provide more disclosure to homeowners about the lack of flood coverage in their property insurance policy passed its first House committee on January 10, 2018. A strike all amendment (#818499) and two technical amendments to the strike all (#193917 and #302883) were adopted by the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Health Innovation Subcommittee approved HB 289, the any willing pharmacy/mail order bill, during its meeting on January 10, 2018 with a strike all amendment to limit the scope of the bill to only HIV drugs, a significant limitation. The amended bill is still opposed by health plans…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On January 10, 2018, the House Insurance and Banking Subcommitee approved HB 533 with one amendment. The bill allows an insurer to condition the sale of insurance on the purchase of motor vehicle services if such services are purchased from a membership organization affiliated with the insurer and…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Insurance and Banking Subcomittee unanimously approved HB HB 483 on January 10, 2018 with one amendment. The bill has one committee stop left. The Senate companion bill, SB 762, has not yet been heard in committee. The bill expands the types of promotional and advertising gifts allowed…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 7012 reenacts and saves from repeal the public records exemption in current law for proprietary business information provided by insurers in the private market to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation for use in the Citizens Clearinghouse. The information is provided by insurers to the Citizens Clearinghouse and used to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee used all of their allotted committee meeting time during their January 10, 2018 meeting to discuss, debate, and vote on the PIP repeal bill. Thus, they did not consider the autoglass bill (SB 396) or the named driver exclusion bill (SB 518). These…