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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 offense are moving this Session. Changing texting while driving to a primary offense will allow a law enforcement officer to stop a vehicle solely for texting while driving. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s insurance omnibus bill, HB 465, passed its last committee in the House on February 1, 2018. The bill will now be heard on the House floor when set by the Rules Committee. Two amendments were adopted to the bill. One amendment removed the provision in the bill…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1011 provides more disclosure to homeowners about the lack of flood coverage in their property insurance policy. The bill unanimously passed its last House committee on February 1, 2018 with one amendment. The amendment adopted addresses concerns raised by insurers to the flood disclosure requirement contained in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A more limited retroactive denial of claims bill, HB 217, started moving in the House on January 30, 2018 when it passed its first subcommittee, the House Health Innovation Subcommittee, with a strike all amendment (#707915). The bill has two committee stops left. The vote on the bill…