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By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel HB 875 clarifies when a construction contract is complete for construction defect claim purposes. The bill is one vote away from passage and we expect the Senate will cast that vote on March 9, 2018. The House passed HB 875 with a vote of 112-0 on February 21, 2018. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s insurance omnibus bill, HB 465 passed the House on March 5, 2018 by a vote of 113-1. The bill now goes to the Senate for consideration and approval. Because the Senate bill has three provisions in it that are not in the House bill, the Senate…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s insurance omnibus bill, HB 465 and SB 784, moved closer to passage on March 2, 2018 when the bill passed its last Senate committee and was heard on the House floor on special order. The House will likely vote on the bill the next time they are…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The Senate construction defect statute of repose bill, SB 536 passed its last committee on March 1, 2018 without amendment. The House previously passed their bill (HB 875) with a vote of 112-0 and sent it to the Senate. Thus, the bill is in a good position to pass.…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel A bill allowing insurers and insurance agents to give additional types of promotional and advertising gifts and changing the amount of these gifts to $100/year rather than $25/gift is poised for passage this year. The bill passed the House on February 14, 2018, HB 483 with a vote of…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The House 2018 trade secret legislative package, HB 459 and HB 461, passed the House on February 21, 2018. HB 459 repeals the current public records laws relating to trade secrets and HB 461 creates a new uniform law for trade secrets to be followed by all state agencies. …
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The construction defect statute of repose bill, HB 875 passed the House on February 22, 2018 with a vote of 112-0. The Senate bill, SB 536, is identical and has one committee left. Thus, the bill is in a good position to pass. The bill provides further clarification in…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel This year’s Senate insurance omnibus bill, SB 784, passed its second committee in the Senate on February 20, 2018 and now has one committee left. Two amendments were adopted in committee. One amendment removed the surplus lines export eligibility provision from the bill. That provision lowered from $1,000,000 to…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel Speaker Corcoran’s priority legislation creating a uniform law to protect the confidentiality of trade secret information provided to state agencies and to set a uniform process for all agencies to use when a public records request is received for that information will be voted on by the full House…
By: Katrina Callaway, FIC General Counsel The construction defect statute of repose bill, HB 875 will be voted on by the full House on February 21, 2018, the next time the House is in session. We expect the bill will pass the House. The Senate bill, SB 536, is identical and has one committee left. …