Florida Insurance Council - Covering Florida Since 1962
Florida Insurance Council - Covering Florida Since 1962
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…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 17, 2019, the House heard their vulnerable investor protection bill (HB 143) on the floor, waived the rules to roll it to third reading, and voted on it. It passed by a vote of 117-0. SB 1466, the Senate companion, is in its last committee. Thus, the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A rule proposed by the Division of Workers’ Compensation (Division) to implement last year’s legislation authorizing first responders to receive workers’ compensation benefits for PTSD without a physical injury will likely be ratified this Session so that it can take effect. The House approved their rule ratification bill, HB…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel With the bill sponsoring saying the telehealth bill was still a “work in progress,” SB 1526 passed its second committee on April 16, 2019. A strike all amendment was adopted that made significant changes to bring the bill very close to the House telehealth bill (HB 23) that has…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On April 16, 2019, the House and Senate both moved bills (HB 337 and SB SB 328) increasing the county court jurisdictional threshold. Each chamber also adopted amendments to their bills to delay the implementation of a county court jurisdictional threshold increase by six months – until January 1,…