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