Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1495
Amendment No. 357937
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
.
.
.






1Representative Patterson offered the following:
2
3     Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
4     Between line(s) 935-936 insert:
5     Section 6.  Subsection (8) of section 625.012, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     625.012  "Assets" defined.--In any determination of the
8financial condition of an insurer, there shall be allowed as
9"assets" only such assets as are owned by the insurer and which
10consist of:
11     (8)  The full amount of reinsurance recoverable by a ceding
12insurer from a solvent reinsurer and which reinsurance is
13authorized under s. 624.610. The full amount of reimbursement
14receivable by a ceding insurer from the Florida Hurricane
15Catastrophe Fund regardless of when the reimbursements are
16expected to be received. Rating agencies or rating services
17assigning a financial rating to a Florida-based insurer that
18are reinsured by the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund may
19consider any reinsurance recoverable from the Florida
20Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to be valid and collectible unless
21the rating agency or rating service has financial information
22to the contrary.
23
24
25
26
-----------------------------------------------------
27
T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
28     Between lines 49-50 insert:
29625.012, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "assets";
30including the full amount of reimbursement receivable by a
31ceding insurer from the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund;
32amending s.
33


CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.