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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…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 754, by Sen. Stewart (D), passed its second committee on March 18, 2019. The bill was not amended though the bill sponsor said she was working on an amendment to deal with the deductible. The bill prohibits the shops or an employee of the shop to offer…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A stand-alone bill to standardize first party and third party bad faith claims passed its first House committee on March 13, 2019 with an amendment that substantially revamped the original bill. By a vote of 11-5, the House Civil Justice Subcommittee approved HB 751. It has two more committees…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel SB 1052, one of the two Senate PIP repeal bills, passed its first committee on March 12, 2019. The other Senate PIP repeal bill has not yet been heard in committee. The House PIP repeal bill has also not been heard in committee. SB 1052 by Sen. Lee (R)…