Florida Senate - 2009                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1950
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             04/27/2009 04:42 PM       .                                
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       Senator Baker moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1157 - 1163
    4  and insert:
    5         (i)1. Except as otherwise specifically provided in this
    6  chapter, the office may shall not prohibit any insurer,
    7  including any residual market plan or joint underwriting
    8  association, from paying acquisition costs based on the full
    9  amount of premium, as defined in s. 627.403, applicable to any
   10  policy, or prohibit any such insurer from including the full
   11  amount of acquisition costs in a rate filing.
   12         2. Unless specifically authorized by law, the office may
   13  not interfere, directly or indirectly, with an insurer’s right
   14  to solicit, sell, promote, or otherwise acquire policyholders
   15  and implement coverage using its own lawful methodologies,
   16  systems, agents, and approach, including the calculation,
   17  manner, or amount of agent commissions, if any. This
   18  subparagraph applies only to rate filings made pursuant to this
   19  section.
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   21  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   22  And the title is amended as follows:
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   24         Delete line 50
   25  and insert:
   26         unfairly discriminatory; prohibiting the Office of
   27         Insurance Regulation from interfering with an
   28         insurer’s lawful business practices with respect to
   29         certain applications; amending s. 627.0621, F.S.;