HB 0821 2003
1	CHAMBER ACTION
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6	The Committee on Insurance recommends the following:
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8	Committee Substitute
9	Remove the entire bill and insert:
10	A bill to be entitled
11	An act relating to service of process against the Florida
12	Automobile Joint Underwriting Association; amending s.
13	627.311, F.S.; specifying that the Florida Automobile
14	Joint Underwriting Association appoints its general
15	manager as agent for service of process purposes;
16	providing a limitation relating to method of service of
17	process; providing an effective date.
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19	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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21	Section 1. Subsection (6) is added to section 627.311,
22	Florida Statutes, to read:
23	627.311 Joint underwriters and joint reinsurers.--
24	(6)(a) The Florida Automobile Joint Underwriting
25	Association created under this section shall be deemed to have
26	appointed its general manager as its agent to receive service of
27	all legal process issued against the association in any civil
28	action or proceeding in this state. Process so served shall be
29	valid and binding upon the insurer.
30	(b) Service of process upon the association’s general
31	manager as the association’s agent pursuant to such an
32	appointment shall be the sole method of service of process upon
33	the association.
34	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.