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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                           Bill No. CS for SB 1126

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

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11  Representative(s) Alexander offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

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17         Section 2.  Subsection (11) is added to section

18  627.0629, Florida Statutes, to read:

19         627.0629  Residential property insurance; rate

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21         (11)  An insurer may implement an across-the-board

22  percentage reduction in its rates for any line of residential

23  property insurance upon 90 days' advance notice to the

24  department. Such reduction must remain in effect for 1 year.

25  At the conclusion of the year in which the reduction is in

26  effect, the insurer may continue the reduction for another

27  year, may implement a different rate reduction for a period of

28  1 year, or may reinstate its previous rate, provided it gives

29  the department 90 days' advance notice.

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                           Bill No. CS for SB 1126

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





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  2  And the title is amended as follows:

  3         On page 1, line 4 after Act;

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  6         amending s. 627.0629, F.S.; providing

  7         circumstances under which an insurer may

  8         implement a temporary across-the-board

  9         percentage reduction in its rates for any line

10         of residential property insurance;

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