Sen. Nick DiCeglie

Residual Market Insurers; Revising the conditions for insurance coverage to be eligible for export; transferring to surplus lines insurance those provisions relating to liability of insureds and deductibles; prohibiting policyholders from assigning post-loss insurance benefits under property insurance policies; requiring settlements or verdicts against insureds as a condition precedent to the accrual or maintenance of causes of actions against liability insurers by persons who are not insureds, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Senator James A. Sebesta Memorial Highway ; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in specified counties; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Relief of Mande Penney-Lemmon by Sarasota County; Providing for the relief of Mande Penney-Lemmon by Sarasota County; providing for an appropriation to compensate her for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of Sarasota County, through its employee; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $2,291,365

Maddy summaryThis bill (SB 350) proposed amending Florida's traffic law to clarify that drivers following local ordinances about operating vehicles on flooded streets are exempt from the prohibition against driving "too slowly." Specifically, it added an explicit exception to the "unlawful slow speed" rule for compliance with local flood-related vehicle operation rules. The change would directly affect drivers in communities with such local ordinances, ensuring they aren't penalized for slowing down as required during flooding. The bill was never enacted, as it was indefinitely postponed and later died in committee.

Assessment of Homestead Property; Requiring that changes, additions, or improvements that replace or are made to elevate homestead property be assessed in a specified manner; specifying how such assessment must be calculated under certain conditions; authorizing property appraisers to require certain evidence, etc.

Impact Fees; Defining the term “plan-based methodology”; requiring the completion of a demonstrated-need study using plan-based methodology before the adoption of an impact fee increase which expressly demonstrates certain extraordinary circumstances; prohibiting increases in certain impact fees unless specified extraordinary circumstances are demonstrated, etc.

Mail Theft; Prohibiting a person from taking certain actions regarding unlawfully obtained mail and the unauthorized reproduction of a mail depository key or lock; providing criminal penalties, etc.

Domestic Violence; Revising the definition of the term “domestic violence” to include coercive control of one family or household member by another family or household member, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/Harris Rosen Way and Geraldine Thompson Way; Providing honorary designations of certain transportation facilities in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Nonprofit Agricultural Organization Medical Benefit Plans; Defining the term “nonprofit agricultural organization”; authorizing nonprofit agricultural organizations to provide medical benefit plans; specifying that such plans are not insurance for purposes of the Florida Insurance Code; prohibiting the nonprofit agricultural organization from marketing or selling a medical benefit plan through specified agents, etc.