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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 971, the House electronic bike (e-bike) bill, unanimously passed the full House on March 9, 2020 and passed the Senate on March 10, 2020 with a vote of 39-0. The bill now goes to Governor DeSantis for signature and we anticipate he will sign it as the bill…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On March 9, 2020, the full House approved HB 1039 relating to TNC advertising, luxury TNCs, vicarious liability of TNCs, and TNCs for disabled persons. The House adopted a technical amendment to the bill on second reading. The bill will be sent to the Senate for approval. The Senate…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House transportation omnibus bill, HB 395, that includes some insurance related provisions passed the full House on March 9, 2020 and was sent to the Senate for approval. Although a number of amendments were adopted to the bill on the House floor, none of them related to the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 971, the House electronic bike (e-bike) bill, unanimously passed the full House on March 9, 2020 and was immediately sent to the Senate. Upon receipt, the Senate took up the Senate bill, substituted the House bill for the Senate bill, and rolled the House bill to third reading…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel House and Senate bills relating to TNC advertising, luxury TNCs, vicarious liability of TNCs, and TNCs for disabled persons is ready for the floor of both chambers. Thus, the bills are in good position to pass this Session. The House bill passed its last committee last week and the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1148, a bill regulating electric bikes (e-bikes) and essentially treating them like bikes that are pedaled, passed its last committee of reference in the Senate on March 2, 2020 without amendment. No committee members asked questions or debated the bill. The House e-bike bill (HB 971) has…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On February 27, 2020, the House Commerce Committee approved a committee substitute to HB 895 (10000) that stripped the bill of its original language which covered a myriad of insurance topics and replaced it with third party bad faith reform. The Commerce Committee was the last committee stop for…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 771, the House PIP repeal bill, cleared its last House committee on February 27, 2020 when the House Commerce Committee passed it with a vote of 17-7. Seven Republicans voted against the bill, including the House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee Chair, Rep. Donalds (R), and the House…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Up until this week the House was advancing two competing House bills to regulate peer to peer car sharing, both of which included the same insurance requirements. The bills differed on the application of the daily rental car surcharge and sales tax to peer to peer car sharing. …