SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1202
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 605232
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11  Senator Campbell moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 75, between lines 24 and 25,
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17         Section 10.  Subsection (1) of section 627.737, Florida
18  Statutes, is amended to read:
19         627.737  Tort exemption; limitation on right to
20  damages; punitive damages.--
21         (1)  Every owner, registrant, operator, or occupant of
22  a motor vehicle with respect to which security has been
23  provided as required by ss. 627.730-627.7405, and every person
24  or organization legally responsible for her or his acts or
25  omissions, is hereby exempted from tort liability for damages
26  because of bodily injury, sickness, or disease arising out of
27  the ownership, operation, maintenance, or use of such motor
28  vehicle in this state to the extent that the benefits
29  described in s. 627.736(1) are paid payable for such injury,
30  or would be payable but for any exclusion authorized by ss.
31  627.730-627.7405, under any insurance policy or other method
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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1202
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 605232
 1  of security complying with the requirements of s. 627.733, or
 2  by an owner personally liable under s. 627.733 for the payment
 3  of such benefits, unless a person is entitled to maintain an
 4  action for pain, suffering, mental anguish, and inconvenience
 5  for such injury under the provisions of subsection (2).
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11  And the title is amended as follows:
12         On page 3, line 2, after the semicolon,
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15         amending s. 627.737, F.S.; providing that the
16         liability exemption applies to the extent that
17         benefits are paid;
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