Senate Bill sb1934c1

    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1934

    By the Committee on Health, Aging, and Long-Term Care; and
    Senator Atwater




    317-2137-03

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the State Risk Management

  3         Trust Fund; amending s. 284.01, F.S.; providing

  4         construction; requiring the fund to insure the

  5         property of certain hospital districts under

  6         certain circumstances; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 284.01, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         284.01  State Risk Management Trust Fund; coverages to

14  be provided.--

15         (1)  The State Risk Management Trust Fund shall insure

16  those properties designated in subsection (2) which are owned

17  by the state or its agencies, boards, or bureaus against loss

18  from fire, lightning, sinkholes, and hazards customarily

19  insured by extended coverage and loss from the removal of

20  personal property from such properties when endangered by

21  covered perils. For the purposes of this part, a hospital

22  district created by special act which owns or operates one or

23  more hospitals, nursing homes, or other health care facilities

24  shall be considered a state agency and its property shall be

25  considered owned by the state. The fund shall insure the

26  property of such a district in the same manner as property

27  owned by other state agencies, boards, or bureaus, upon the

28  request of such district and payment of the premiums for such

29  insurance. Furthermore, the fund may also insure the State

30  Regional Office Building located in the City of Jacksonville,

31  Duval County, including the parking facility owned by the City

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    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1934
    317-2137-03




 1  of Jacksonville, since such building is jointly owned by the

 2  State of Florida and the City of Jacksonville. The City of

 3  Jacksonville shall be responsible for the payment of all

 4  premiums charged by the fund to insure property owned by the

 5  City of Jacksonville. Flood insurance shall be provided for

 6  state-owned structures and contents designated in subsection

 7  (2) to the extent necessary to meet self-insurance

 8  requirements of the National Flood Insurance Program, as

 9  prescribed in rules and regulations of the Federal Emergency

10  Management Agency in 44 C.F.R. parts 59, 60, and 74, effective

11  October 1, 1986.

12         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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14          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
15                         Senate Bill 1934

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17  The committee substitute limits the coverage available under
    the State Risk Management Trust Fund to a hospital district
18  created by special act which owns or operates one or more
    hospitals, nursing homes, or other health care facilities to
19  the property of such hospital district, not the leasehold
    interests.
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