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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On January 16, 2018, the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee approved SB 756 with no amendments. The House companion bill, HB 533, was approved by the House Insurance and Banking Subcommitee last week. The bill allows an insurer to condition the sale of insurance on the purchase of motor…
The Florida House passed their PIP repeal bill, HB 19, today by a vote of 88-15. A copy of the bill that passed and the staff analysis are attached. The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration. The Senate PIP repeal bill, SB 150, passed its first committee this week and has two…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House and Senate both moved their PIP bills the first week of Session. The House bill was heard on the floor and the Senate bill in its first of three committees. The House PIP repeal and replace bill (HB 19) was heard on the floor of the House…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Commerce Committee passed the named driver exclusion bill, HB 329 with one amendment (#683325) during its meeting on January 11, 2018. This was the last committee stop for the bill; thus it will next be heard on the House floor when set by the House Rules 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, which will allow a law enforcement officer to stop a vehicle solely for texting while driving, passed committees in the House and Senate during the first week of the…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel On January 10, 2018, the House Insurance and Banking Subcommitee approved HB 533 with one amendment. The bill allows an insurer to condition the sale of insurance on the purchase of motor vehicle services if such services are purchased from a membership organization affiliated with the insurer and…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee used all of their allotted committee meeting time during their January 10, 2018 meeting to discuss, debate, and vote on the PIP repeal bill. Thus, they did not consider the autoglass bill (SB 396) or the named driver exclusion bill (SB 518). These…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee did not vote on the PIP repeal or auto glass bills at their meeting on December 5, 2017 because the Committee ran out of time. They were allotted two hours to meet and a workers’ compensation bill for first responders took the majority…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House Insurance and Banking Subcommittee passed the named driver exclusion bill, HB 329 during its meeting on November 15, 2017. The bill authorizes the specific exclusion of named individuals from private passenger motor vehicle insurance coverages. The bill prohibits an exclusion for periods when the names…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House PIP repeal and replace bill (HB 19) was heard by its only committee of reference, Commerce Committee, on November 7, 2017. The bill passed with two amendments. It will now go to the House floor for a full vote by the chamber when put on the floor…