SENATE AMENDMENT

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11  Senator Grant moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 6, between lines 12 and 13,

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16  insert:

17         Section 2.  Subsection (1) of section 627.672, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         627.672  Definitions.--For the purposes of ss.

20  627.671-627.675:

21         (1)  A "Medicare supplement policy" is a health

22  insurance policy or other health benefit plan offered by a

23  private entity to individuals who are entitled to have

24  payments for health care costs made under Medicare, Title

25  XVIII of the Social Security Act ("Medicare"), as presently

26  constituted and as may later be amended, which provides

27  reimbursement for expenses incurred for services and items for

28  which payment may be made under Medicare but which expenses

29  are not reimbursable by reason of the applicability of

30  deductibles, coinsurance amounts, or other limitations imposed

31  by Medicare. The term does not include any such policy or plan

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 1  of one or more labor organizations, or of the trustees of a

 2  fund established by one or more labor organizations, or a

 3  combination thereof, for employees or former employees, or a

 4  combination thereof, or for members or former members, or a

 5  combination thereof, of the labor organizations.

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 7  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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11  And the title is amended as follows:

12         Delete everything before the enacting clause

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14  and insert:

15                      A bill to be entitled

16         An act relating to health care; amending s.

17         627.672, F.S.; redefining the term "Medicare

18         supplement policy" for purposes of the Florida

19         Medicare Supplement Reform Act; amending s.

20         627.6699, F.S.; modifying definitions;

21         requiring small employer carriers to begin to

22         offer and issue all small employer benefit

23         plans on a specified date; deleting the

24         requirement that basic and standard small

25         employer health benefit plans be issued;

26         providing additional requirements for

27         determining premium rates for benefit plans;

28         providing for applicability of the act to plans

29         provided by small employer carriers that are

30         insurers or health maintenance organizations

31         notwithstanding the provisions of certain other

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