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11 Senator Clary moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 1. Subsections (11), (12), (13), (14), (15),
18 (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), and (21) of section 717.101,
20 717.101 Definitions.--As used in this chapter, unless
21 the context otherwise requires:
22 (11) "Health care provider" means any state-licensed
23 entity that provides and receives payment for health care
24 services. These entities include, but are not limited to,
25 hospitals, outpatient centers, physician practices, and
26 skilled nursing facilities.
27 (12)(11) "Holder" means a person, wherever organized
28 or domiciled, who is:
29 (a) In possession of property belonging to another;
30 (b) A trustee in case of a trust; or
31 (c) Indebted to another on an obligation.
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1 (13)(12) "Insurance company" means an association,
2 corporation, or fraternal or mutual benefit organization,
3 whether or not for profit, which is engaged in providing
4 insurance coverage, including, by way of illustration and not
5 limitation, accident, burial, casualty, credit life, contract
6 performance, dental, fidelity, fire, health, hospitalization,
7 illness, life (including endowments and annuities),
8 malpractice, marine, mortgage, surety, and wage protection
9 insurance.
10 (14)(13) "Intangible property" includes, by way of
11 illustration and not limitation:
12 (a) Moneys, checks, drafts, deposits, interest,
13 dividends, and income.
14 (b) Credit balances, customer overpayments, security
15 deposits and other instruments as defined by chapter 679,
16 refunds, unpaid wages, unused airline tickets, and
17 unidentified remittances.
18 (c) Stocks, and other intangible ownership interests
19 in business associations.
20 (d) Moneys deposited to redeem stocks, bonds, bearer
21 bonds, original issue discount bonds, coupons, and other
22 securities, or to make distributions.
23 (e) Amounts due and payable under the terms of
24 insurance policies.
25 (f) Amounts distributable from a trust or custodial
26 fund established under a plan to provide any health, welfare,
27 pension, vacation, severance, retirement, death, stock
28 purchase, profit sharing, employee savings, supplemental
29 unemployment insurance, or similar benefit.
30 (15)(14) "Last known address" means a description of
31 the location of the apparent owner sufficient for the purpose
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1 of the delivery of mail. For the purposes of identifying,
2 reporting, and remitting property to the department which is
3 presumed to be unclaimed, "last known address" includes any
4 partial description of the location of the apparent owner
5 sufficient to establish the apparent owner was a resident of
6 this state at the time of last contact with the apparent owner
7 or at the time the property became due and payable.
8 (16)(15) "Lawful charges" means charges against
9 dormant accounts that are authorized by statute for the
10 purpose of offsetting the costs of maintaining the dormant
11 account.
12 (17) "Managed care payor" means a health care plan
13 that has a defined system of selecting and limiting health
14 care providers as evidenced by a managed care contract with
15 the health care providers. These plans include, but are not
16 limited to, managed care health insurance companies and health
17 maintenance organizations.
18 (18)(16) "Owner" means a depositor in the case of a
19 deposit, a beneficiary in case of a trust or a deposit in
20 trust, or a payee in the case of other intangible property, or
21 a person having a legal or equitable interest in property
22 subject to this chapter or his or her legal representative.
23 (19)(17) "Public corporation" means a corporation
24 created by the state, founded and owned in the public
25 interest, supported by public funds, and governed by those
26 deriving their power from the state.
27 (20)(18) "Reportable period" means the calendar year
28 ending December 31 of each year.
29 (21)(19) "State," when applied to a part of the United
30 States, includes any state, district, commonwealth, territory,
31 insular possession, and any other area subject to the
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1 legislative authority of the United States.
2 (22)(20) "Ultimate equitable owner" means a natural
3 person who, directly or indirectly, owns or controls an
4 ownership interest in a corporation, a foreign corporation, an
5 alien business organization, or any other form of business
6 organization, regardless of whether such natural person owns
7 or controls such ownership interest through one or more
8 natural persons or one or more proxies, powers of attorney,
9 nominees, corporations, associations, partnerships, trusts,
10 joint stock companies, or other entities or devices, or any
11 combination thereof.
12 (23)(21) "Utility" means a person who owns or
13 operates, for public use, any plant, equipment, property,
14 franchise, or license for the transmission of communications
15 or the production, storage, transmission, sale, delivery, or
16 furnishing of electricity, water, steam, or gas.
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22 And the title is amended as follows:
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26 amending s. 717.101, F.S.; providing
27 definitions;
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