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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate passed its electric scooter bills out of its last committee on April 18, 2019 without amending it. The House bill has also cleared all of its committees. Both bills will be heard on the floor when set by the Rules Committee. One big difference in the bills…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Department of Financial Services (DFS) agency package passed its last House and Senate committees this week. The Senate bill (SB 1704) was not amended in committee. But, the House bill (HB 1393) picked up five amendments, some to match it to the Senate bill, but others to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Language in the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle agency package (HB 1053) that was of concern to some auto insurers was amended out of the bill during committee on April 18, 2019. The language that was removed related to the Department providing bulk crash data and eliminated…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate passed their electric scooter bills out of committee this week. The Senate passed their bill on April 9, 2019 and did not amend it. The Senate bill has one committee left. The House bill passed its last committee on April 10, 2019 with a strike…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate both moved their autonomous vehicle (AV) bills in committee last week. Language setting insurance requirements for on-demand autonomous vehicle networks, which are similar to TNCs, was added to both the House and Senate bills. Up to this point, the bills did not have any insurance…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicle agency package (HB 1053) has some changes to crash reports obtained from the agency that may be of interest to auto insurers. The bill passed its second committee on April 2, 2019 and is now in its last committee. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1052, one of the two Senate PIP repeal bills, passed its second committee on April 1, 2019 by a vote of 5-3. The other Senate PIP repeal bill has not yet been heard in committee, so is likely dead for this Session. The House PIP repeal bill has…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate passed their chamber’s version of the electric scooter bill during committee meetings this week. The House bill has one committee left and the Senate bill has two. The biggest difference in the bills is preemption of local government regulation of scooters. The House bill preempts…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate started moving their autonomous vehicle (AV) bill on March 20, 2019 when it unanimously passed its first committee, Senate Infrastructure and Security. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Brandes (R) who has sponsored AV legislation in past Sessions and is super knowledgeable and a champion for AV…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Transportation & Tourism Appropriations Subcommittee approved the autonomous vehicle bill on March 19, 2019 without amending it. The autonomous vehicles bill, HB 311, does not contain any insurance provisions. The bill changes and adds definitions in the autonomous vehicle law. It excludes autonomous vehicles from current law…