Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1012
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/24/2017           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 220 - 221
    4  and insert:
    5         (9) On or before December 31, 2018, the Division of
    6  Investigative and Forensic Services shall create a report
    7  detailing best practices for the detection, investigation,
    8  prevention, and reporting of insurance fraud and other
    9  fraudulent insurance acts. The report must be updated as
   10  necessary but at least every 2 years. The report must provide:
   11         (a) Information on the best practices for the establishment
   12  of anti-fraud investigative units within insurers;
   13         (b) Information on the best practices and methods for
   14  detecting and investigating insurance fraud and other fraudulent
   15  insurance acts;
   16         (c) Information on appropriate anti-fraud education and
   17  training of insurer personnel;
   18         (d) Information on the best practices for reporting
   19  insurance fraud and other fraudulent insurance acts to the
   20  Division of Investigative and Forensic Services and to other law
   21  enforcement agencies;
   22         (e) Information regarding the appropriate level of staffing
   23  and resources for anti-fraud investigative units within
   24  insurers;
   25         (f) Information detailing statistics and data relating to
   26  insurance fraud which insurers should maintain; and
   27         (g) Other information as determined by the Division of
   28  Investigative and Forensic Services.
   29         (10)(8) The department may adopt rules to administer this
   30  section, except that it shall adopt rules to administer
   31  subsection (5).
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   34  And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete line 17
   36  and insert:
   37         the failure to comply with requirements of the
   38         section; requiring the Division of Investigative and
   39         Forensic Services of the department to create, by a
   40         specified date, a report detailing best practices for
   41         the detection, investigation, prevention, and
   42         reporting of insurance fraud and other fraudulent
   43         insurance acts; requiring such report to be updated at
   44         certain intervals; specifying required information in
   45         the report; requiring the department to adopt rules
   46         relating to insurers’ annual reporting of certain
   47         data;