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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel An unfriendly AOB bill (SB 1168) passed its second committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee on February 6, 2018 by a vote of 7-3. The vote was also 7-3 in the first committee. The bill has one committee left. The AOB bill was supported in committee by water remediators…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s Senate insurance omnibus bill, SB 784, passed its first (of three) committee in the Senate on February 6, 2018. A strike all amendment was adopted to essentially match the Senate bill with the House bill. The amended bill covers a myriad of insurance topics: Surplus Lines…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 762, which expands they kinds of allowable gifts insurers or agents can give, was unanimously approved by its second Senate committee on February 6, 2018. The committee adopted one amendment to remove the funeral related gift provisions from the bill due to “unintended consequences.” That provision would…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 6, 2018, committees in the House and Senate both approved agency bills for the Department of Financial Services (DFS). HB 1073 and SB 1292 are now in their last committees, so have a good chance of passing. The House Governmental Operations and Technology Appropriations Subcommittee adopted two…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 1, 2018, the Senate President made the rare move of referring the Senate auto glass bill (SB 396) back to the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee. The move was likely because the bill was significantly changed in its second committee and the President wanted the substantive committee…
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…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On January 31, 2018, the full House heard HB 533 on the floor, rolled it to third reading, and passed the bill by a vote of 110-0. There were no floor amendments. The bill allows an insurer to condition the sale of insurance on the purchase of motor…