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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                Bill No. CS/HB 247

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Waters offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, between lines 10 & 11 of the bill

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17         Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section

18  215.555, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         215.555  Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.--

20         (2)  DEFINITIONS.--As used in this section:

21         (c)  "Covered policy" means any insurance policy

22  covering residential property in this state, including, but

23  not limited to, any homeowner's, mobile home owner's, farm

24  owner's, condominium association, condominium unit owner's,

25  tenant's, or apartment building policy, or any other policy

26  covering a residential structure or its contents issued by any

27  authorized insurer, including any joint underwriting

28  association or similar entity created pursuant to law.

29  Additionally, covered policies include policies covering the

30  peril of wind removed from the Florida Residential Property

31  and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association, created pursuant

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                Bill No. CS/HB 247

    Amendment No. 2 (for drafter's use only)





 1  to s. 627.351(6), or the Florida Windstorm Underwriting

 2  Association, created pursuant to s. 627.351(2), by an

 3  authorized insurer under the terms and conditions of an

 4  executed assumption agreement between the authorized insurer

 5  and either association. Each assumption agreement must be

 6  approved by the Department of Insurance prior to the effective

 7  date of the assumption, and the Department of Insurance must

 8  provide written notification to the board within 15 working

 9  days of approval.  "Covered policy" does not include any

10  policy that excludes wind coverage or hurricane coverage or

11  any reinsurance agreement and does not include any policy

12  otherwise meeting this definition which is issued by a surplus

13  lines insurer or a reinsurer.

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17  And the title is amended as follows:

18         On page 1, line 2

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20  after the semicolon, insert:

21         amending s. 215.555, F.S., revising the

22         definition of "covered policy" for purposes of

23         coverage by the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe

24         Fund;

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