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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel In an interesting turn of events, the Senate amended their telehealth bill (SB 1526) on April 18, 2019 to add back in payment parity, a provision they removed just two days prior. Other, more minor changes, were made in the amendment adopted on April 18, 2019. Sen. Harrell (R),…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Language in the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle agency package (HB 1053) that was of concern to some auto insurers was amended out of the bill during committee on April 18, 2019. The language that was removed related to the Department providing bulk crash data and eliminated…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 17, 2019, the House approved HB 617, a glitch bill making a clarifying change to last year’s bill requiring flood disclosure on homeowner’s policies. The floor vote on the bill was 113-0. Before voting on the bill, the House read it a second time, waived the rules…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Saying the proposed strike all amendment (338298) represented an agreement between House and Senate on AOB reform, Sen. Broxson (R) amended the Senate AOB bill in committee on April 17, 2019 to match the AOB bill already passed by the House. Thus, it appears AOB reform is in a…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A tort reform bill dealing with the dangerous instrumentality doctrine moved out of its last Senate committee on April 17, 2019 with a strike all amendment (661740) increasing the required insurance. The House bill, HB 355, was set for a floor hearing on April 17, 2019, but was postponed.…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1520 expands direct primary care. The bill changes all statutory references of “direct primary care” to “direct health care” which authorizes direct care to be for medical services, including dental services, that are not only primary care. It maintains current law that direct health care agreements are not…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 935 dealing with price transparency in health care contracts with providers is a priority of the House for the 2019 Session. The House passed the bill on April 17, 2019 by a vote of 114-0 after the House heard the bill for the second time and waived the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill dealing with referrals from health care providers to hospitals and out of network providers passed the House on April 17, 2019 with a vote of 114-0. After the bill was read a second time on April 17, 2019, the House waived the rules to hear the bill…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 759 and HB 761 revamp Florida’s trade secret protection laws. On April 17, 2019, they were heard for the first time on the House floor, rolled to third reading and passed by the full House. They were not amended. The bills will now be sent to the Senate…