By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant With Sen. Dennis Baxley conceding he was a habitual violator but not any more, the Senate Transportation Committee March 22 voted for primary enforcement of Florida’s ban on texting while driving. This is the second Senate committee to endorse the bill, with two more scheduled to review it, including the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The state group health insurance program would be substantially changed under a bill set for a vote by the full House next week. The House heard the bill, HB 7007, on the floor on March 22, 2017. It will vote on the bill the next time it is in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill, HB 601, authorizing the use of personal delivery devices (PDDs) on sidewalks unanimously passed its last House committee on March 22, 2017. The bill also contains regulations relating to use of PDDs. The insurance-related regulation contained in the bill requires PDD operators maintain general liability coverage…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 22, 2017, the House Commerce Committee approved, HB 805, which simplifies the transfer of residential insurance policies from a “pup” to the parent company. The bill was amended to conform it to the Senate bill and will now be heard on the House floor when scheduled by…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Sen. Aaron Bean’s bill (CS/SB 430) promoting discount medical plans and “saving money and doing other great things” was advanced March 21 by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services. It now goes to the full Appropriations Committee, its last stop before the Senate floor. A similar House…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant Former Senate President Tom Lee’s bill (CS/CS/SB 240) to promote direct primary care and specify it is not regulated insurance passed the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Health & Human Services March 21, moving it to the full Appropriations Committee and probably the full Senate after that. A similar bill (CS/HB…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House health insurance right to shop bill, HB 449, passed a House appropriations subcommittee on March 21, 2017. The only change made by the committee to the bill was to appropriate $75,000 from the Insurance Regulatory Trust Fund to OIR to help defray their costs to implement the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Insurers’ participation in an auto insurance online verification system would be mandatory under a bill approved by a House subcommittee on March 21, 2017. The bill, HB 913, passed its first committee with a delete everything amendment that was primarily technical in nature and requested by the Department of…
For Immediate Release: Tuesday, March 21, 2017Contact: Christina Johnson, Christina@On3PR.com, 850.391.5040 Statement by Cecil Pearce, President of the Florida Insurance Council, on SB 378 Passing the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax Today (Tallahassee, Fla.) – Below is a statement by Cecil Pearce, President of the Florida Insurance Council, on SB 378 before…
By: Sam Miller, FIC Consultant SB 378 Taxation — by FloresThis amendment was adopted 728458 With the bill sponsor calling the insurer and business community arguments against the salary tax credit repeal bill “baloney,” Senate President Joe Negron’s initiative to repeal the $300 million insurance premium tax salary credit passed the Senate Finance & Tax…