Senate Bill sb1586

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1586

    By the Committee on Banking and Insurance





    597-951-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to a review under the Open

  3         Government Sunset Review Act; amending s.

  4         626.921, F.S., relating to an exemption from

  5         public-records requirements for certain

  6         information concerning surplus lines insurance

  7         which is specific to a particular policy or

  8         policyholder and is submitted to the Department

  9         of Financial Services or the Florida Surplus

10         Lines Service Office or which is available for

11         inspection by the department; saving the

12         exemption from repeal under the Open Government

13         Sunset Review Act; deleting provisions that

14         provide for the repeal of the exemption;

15         providing an effective date.

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17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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19         Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (8) of section

20  626.921, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

21         626.921  Florida Surplus Lines Service Office.--

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23         (b)  Information furnished to the Florida Surplus Lines

24  Service Office under the Surplus Lines Law is confidential and

25  exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art.

26  I of the State Constitution if the disclosure of the

27  information would reveal information specific to a particular

28  policy or policyholder. This exemption does not prevent the

29  disclosure of any information by the Florida Surplus Lines

30  Service Office to the department, but the exemption applies to

31  records obtained by the department from the Florida Surplus

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SB 1586
    597-951-06




 1  Lines Service Office. The exemption does not apply to any

 2  proceeding instituted by the department or office against an

 3  agent or insurer. This paragraph is subject to the Open

 4  Government Sunset Review Act of 1995 in accordance with s.

 5  119.15, and shall stand repealed on October 2, 2006, unless

 6  reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the

 7  Legislature.

 8         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2006.

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11                          SENATE SUMMARY

12    Removes the repeal of an exemption from public-records
      requirements provided for information concerning surplus
13    lines insurance which is specific to a particular policy
      or policyholder.
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