Florida Senate - 2006                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 286
                        Barcode 085932
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11  The Committee on Banking and Insurance (Campbell) recommended
12  the following amendment to amendment (025144):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 10, between lines 10 and 11,
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17  insert:  
18         Section 8.  Subsection (2) of section 877.02, Florida
19  Statutes, is amended to read:
20         877.02  Solicitation of legal services or retainers
21  therefor; penalty.--
22         (2)  It shall be unlawful for any person in the employ
23  of or in any capacity attached to any hospital, sanitarium,
24  police department, wrecker service or garage, prison or court,
25  or for a person authorized to furnish bail bonds, an
26  investigator, a photographer investigators, photographers, an
27  insurance or public adjuster, a general or other contractor as
28  defined in s. 489.105, or any other business providing
29  sinkhole remediation services adjusters, to communicate
30  directly or indirectly with any attorney or person acting on
31  the said attorney's behalf for the purpose of aiding,
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Florida Senate - 2006 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 286 Barcode 085932 1 assisting or abetting such attorney in the solicitation of 2 legal business or the procurement through solicitation of a 3 retainer, written or oral, or any agreement authorizing the 4 attorney to perform or render legal services. 5 6 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 7 8 9 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 10 And the title is amended as follows: 11 On page 11, line 28, after the semicolon, 12 13 insert: 14 amending s. 877.02, F.S.; prohibiting certain 15 contractors from soliciting legal services on 16 behalf of an attorney; 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 11:08 AM 04/05/06 s0286c-bi32-tib