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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. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 1039, a bill allowing advertising on the roofs of TNC vehicles, creating luxury ground transportation TNCs, and creating TNCs for disabled persons was approved by its last committee in the House on February 27, 2020 when the House State Affairs Committee approved it with a strike all amendment…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House transportation omnibus bill, HB 395, that includes some insurance related provisions passed its last committee, House State Affairs, on February 27, 2020. It will now be heard on the House floor when the Rules Committee puts it on the Special Order calendar. The State Affairs Committee adopted…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 971, the House electronic bike (e-bike) bill, is ready for the floor after clearing its last assigned committee on February 20, 2020 with an amendment to remove the notice and public hearing requirements for local governments to restrict the use of e-bikes on certain paths. The Senate…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate peer to peer car sharing bill (SB 478) stalled this week when the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee postponed the bill for the second week in a row. The Committee is not set to meet again which makes passage of the bill very difficult this year. The…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Two competing House bills to regulate peer to peer car sharing, and which include insurance requirements, moved in the House this week. They are both now in possession of the House Commerce Committee, their last committee of reference. The two House bills differ on the application of the daily…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House PIP repeal bill (lHB 771) moved through two committees in two weeks after having lingered in committee for months. Thus, it looks like the bill is now being fast tracked. The House passed PIP repeal the past few Sessions where it has died in the Senate. The…