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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Sen. Garcia openly expressed his frustration with PBMs during the committee debate on his any willing pharmacy/mail order bill, SB 492. The debate came during the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee meeting on January 16, 2018 when the committee passed SB 492, the any willing pharmacy/mail order bill, without…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel For the second week in a row, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee postponed the named driver exclusion bill (SB 518). Last week the bill was postponed because the Committee ran out of their allotted committee time before the bill could be heard. This week, the bill sponsor requested…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On January 16, 2018, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved SB 756 with no amendments. The House companion bill, HB 533, was approved by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommitee last week. The bill allows an insurer to condition the sale of insurance on the purchase of motor…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate telehealth bill, SB 280, passed its first committee on January 16, 2018. The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee passed a strike-all amendment (#856092) and a technical amendment to the strike all (#773864) that added osteopathic doctors back in the bill before passing the bill as amended. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Select Committee on Hurricane Response and Preparedness adopted its final report during its final committee meeting on January 16, 2018. The report is here starting at page 3 and is the result of hours of public testimony taken by the Committee on problems and solutions from Florida’s…