SENATE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 1607, 2nd Eng.
    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 471932
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11  Senator Silver moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 23, lines 19-22, delete those lines
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16  and insert:  
17         Section 15.  Present subsections (4), (5), and (6) of
18  section 631.57, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
19  subsections (5), (6), and (7), respectively, and a new
20  subsection (4) and subsection (8) are added to that
21  subsection, to read:
22         631.57  Powers and duties of the association.--
23         (4)  The Florida Residential Property and Casualty
24  Joint Underwriting Association is exempt from all assessments
25  made by the association, except that the Florida Residential
26  Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association shall pay
27  all assessments levied by the association to secure funds to
28  pay or defease all interest, principal, redemption premium, if
29  any, related costs of issuance of, and any other payments
30  required under the bond resolution or trust indenture, of bond
31  issues to pay covered claims arising from insurer insolvencies
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SENATE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1607, 2nd Eng. Amendment No. ___ Barcode 471932 1 caused by, or proximately related to, any hurricane. Any 2 assessment levied under this paragraph shall be levied in the 3 proportion that the Florida Residential Property and Casualty 4 Joint Underwriting Association's net direct written premiums 5 in this state in the classes protected by the account bears to 6 the total of the net direct written premiums received in this 7 state by all insurers for the preceding year for all coverages 8 listed under s. 631.55(2)(c). 9 (8) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 10 11 12 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 13 And the title is amended as follows: 14 On page 2, line 14, after the semicolon, 15 16 insert: 17 providing that the Florida Residential Property 18 and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association is 19 exempt from assessments by the Florida 20 Insurance Guaranty Association, except for 21 assessments to pay or defease costs of certain 22 bond issues; 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 10:37 PM 05/03/01 h1607c-38j02