Florida Senate - 2011                             CS for SB 1754
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Banking and Insurance; and Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       597-03866-11                                          20111754c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to health insurance; creating s.
    3         624.24, F.S.; prohibiting a person from being
    4         compelled to purchase health insurance except under
    5         specified conditions; specifying that the act does not
    6         prohibit the collection of certain debts; providing an
    7         effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 624.24, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         624.24 Prohibition against requiring the purchase of health
   14  insurance; exceptions.—
   15         (1) A person may not be compelled to purchase health
   16  insurance, except as a condition of:
   17         (a) Public employment;
   18         (b) Voluntary participation in a state or local benefit;
   19         (c) Operating a dangerous instrumentality;
   20         (d) Undertaking an occupation having a risk of occupational
   21  injury or illness;
   22         (e) An order of child support; or
   23         (f) Activity between private persons.
   24         (2) This section does not prohibit the collection of debts
   25  lawfully incurred for health insurance.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.