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Introduced Session

An act relating to Department of Financial Services; repealing s. 17.0315, F.S., relating to the financial and cash management system and task force; amending s. 48.151, F.S.; providing an exception to service of process on public entities under certain circumstances; requiring the Department of Financial Services to create a secure online portal as the sole means to accept certain service of process; amending s. 110.123, F.S.; revising definitions; authorizing specified persons relating to the Division of Rehabilitation and Liquidation to purchase coverage in a state group health insurance plan at specified premium costs; providing that the enrollment period for the state group insurance program begins with a specified plan year for certain persons relating to the division; amending s. 110.131, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; amending s. 120.541, F.S.; revising applicability of certain provisions relating to a specified proposed rule; amending s. 215.34, F.S.; deleting the requirement for specified entities receiving certain charged-back items to prepare a journal transfer; amending s. 215.93, F.S.; renaming a subsystem of the Florida Financial Management Information System; amending s. 215.94, F.S.; CS/ conforming a provision to changes made by the act; amending s. 216.102, F.S.; making technical changes; amending s. 218.32, F.S.; revising legislative intent; providing functions of the Florida Open Financial Statement System; requiring local governments to use the system to file specified reports; providing requirements for the system; revising the list of entities with which the Chief Financial Officer may consult with regard to the system; authorizing, rather than requiring, certain local governmental financial statements to be filed in a specified format; deleting certain requirements for such statements; providing construction; providing exceptions; creating s. 395.1061, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring certain hospitals and hospital systems to demonstrate financial responsibility for maintaining professional liability coverage; prohibiting the Agency for Health Care Administration from issuing or renewing licenses of hospitals under certain circumstances; providing exemptions from professional liability coverage requirements; amending s. 414.40, F.S.; transferring the Stop Inmate Fraud Program from the Department of Financial Services to the Department of Economic Opportunity; authorizing the program to provide reports of certain data to the Division of Public CS/ Assistance Fraud for a specified purpose; amending s. 440.02, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "employer"; amending s. 440.05, F.S.; revising information that must be submitted with the notice of election to be exempt from workers' compensation coverage; providing the circumstance under which the department must send certain electronic notifications to workers' compensation carriers; providing information included in such notification; requiring certificates of election to be exempt to contain certain notice; deleting a provision requiring certain corporation officers to maintain business records; revising applicability of certificates of election to be exempt; amending s. 440.107, F.S.; revising the timeframe for certain employers to produce specified records under certain circumstances; removing the requirement that specified information be updated daily on certain website; prohibiting employers from entering a payment agreement schedule with the department unless a specified condition is met; revising circumstances that result in immediate reinstatement of stop-work orders; revising penalty assessments; amending s. 440.13, F.S.; authorizing the Department of Financial Services to adopt rules; amending s. 440.185, F.S.; revising the timeline and CS/ methods for workers' compensation carriers to send certain informational brochure to injured workers; revising methods by which such informational brochure is sent to employers; amending s. 440.381, F.S.; specifying workers' compensation policies that require physical onsite audits for a specified class; amending s. 497.277, F.S.; deleting a cap on transferring burial rights fees; amending s. 497.369, F.S.; revising requirements for licenses by endorsement to practice embalming; amending s. 497.372, F.S.; revising the scope of funeral directing practice; amending s. 497.374, F.S.; revising requirements for licenses by endorsement to practice funeral directing; amending s. 554.108, F.S.; requiring boilers manufactured after a specified date, rather than boilers of certain heat input, to be stamped with a specified code symbol; revising the boilers' information that must be filed; requiring that specified spaces and rooms be equipped with carbon monoxide detector devices; amending s. 554.111, F.S.; deleting a requirement for a specified fee for a certificate of competency; requiring applications for boiler permits to include a specified report; revising the purpose for special trips that the department is required to make for boiler inspections; amending s. CS/ 554.114, F.S.; revising the schedules of penalties against boiler insurance companies, inspection agencies, and other persons for specified violations; amending s. 624.307, F.S.; providing that certain regulated persons or unauthorized insurers are required to appoint the Chief Financial Officer as their agents, rather than as their attorneys, to receive service of legal process; revising the method by which the Chief Financial Officer makes the process available; amending s. 624.422, F.S.; requiring insurers to file with the department email-addresses, rather than addresses, of specified persons; providing that a specified method by which process is served upon the Chief Financial Officer is the sole method of service; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 624.423, F.S.; revising procedures for service of process; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to promptly notify certain persons of the process and to make the process available to such persons through specified means; revising the method by which records are retained; amending s. 624.610, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 626.015, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "unaffiliated insurance agent"; amending s. 626.171, F.S.; requiring fingerprints for CS/ certain licenses to be processed in accordance with specified laws; amending s. 626.172, F.S.; revising the method by which fingerprints for applications for insurance agency licenses are submitted; deleting a fingerprint processing fee; creating s. 626.173, F.S.; providing duties for certain insurance agency persons within a specified timeframe after cessation of insurance transactions; authorizing the department to impose administrative fines against such persons for specified violations; prohibiting proceedings from being initiated and fines from accruing unless specified requirements are met; providing a cap on such fines; authorizing the department to suspend or revoke licenses under certain circumstances; providing requirements for determining penalties and remedies; amending s. 626.201, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; providing continuation of jurisdiction of the department or office to investigate and prosecute specified violations under certain circumstances; amending s. 626.202, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 626.221, F.S.; adding a designation to the list of designations that allow applicants for all- lines adjuster license to be exempt from an examination; amending s. 626.311, F.S.; providing an CS/ exception to the prohibition against unaffiliated insurance agents' holding appointments from insurers; amending ss. 626.321, 626.601, 626.8411, and 626.8412, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 626.8417, F.S.; revising requirements to qualify for title insurance agent licenses; amending s. 626.8421, F.S.; requiring title agencies to have separate appointments under certain circumstances; amending s. 626.843, F.S.; providing appointments of title insurance agencies; amending s. 626.8433, F.S.; requiring title insurers that terminate appointments of title insurance agencies to file certain information with the department; amending s. 626.8447, F.S.; providing effects of suspension or revocation of title insurance agency licenses; amending s. 626.854, F.S.; revising restrictions on public adjuster compensations; prohibiting public adjuster compensations from being based on specified expenses; providing an exception; prohibiting increases of public adjuster rates of compensation from being based on a specified fact; amending s. 626.8561, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "public adjuster apprentice"; amending s. 626.865, F.S.; revising requirements to qualify for public adjuster licenses; requiring that certain bonds remain CS/ in effect for a specified period after expiration of the license; amending s. 626.8651, F.S.; requiring that certain bonds remain in effect for a specified period after expiration of the public adjuster apprentice license; revising requirements for public adjuster apprentices to be, act as, or hold themselves out to be public adjust apprentices; amending s. 626.8696, F.S.; revising requirements for adjusting firm license applications; amending s. 626.8732, F.S.; requiring applicants for nonresident public adjuster licenses to maintain certain bonds after the expiration or termination of licenses; amending ss. 626.8734, 626.906, 626.912, 626.937, and 626.9953, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 633.135, F.S.; providing additional uses for firefighter funds; amending s. 633.216, F.S.; revising requirements for renewal of firesafety inspector certificates; amending s. 633.336, F.S.; revising administrative fines for violations by certified fire protection contractors; requiring the State Fire Marshal to adopt guidelines for penalties and to identify mitigating and aggravating circumstances for penalties; amending s. 633.408, F.S.; revising requirements for the issuance of a Firefighter Certificate of Compliance and Special CS/ Certificate of Compliance; deleting provisions relating to requirements to retain a Special Certificate of Compliance; amending s. 633.414, F.S.; providing requirements to retain a Special Certificate of Compliance; revising requirements to retain a Firefighter Certificate of Compliance; providing a definition; amending ss. 648.34 and 648.355, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 648.46, F.S.; providing continuation of jurisdiction of the department or office to investigate and prosecute specified violations under certain circumstances; amending s. 766.105, F.S.; deleting provisions relating to the duties of the Agency for Health Care Administration and to the board of governors of the Florida Patient's Compensation Fund; requiring that the fund be subject to the supervision and approval of the Chief Financial Officer rather than the board of governors and be dissolved on or before a specified date; providing duties of the department before the legal dissolution of the fund; requiring that provisions relating to the fund be repealed on a specified date; amending ss. 945.6041 and 985.6441, F.S.; making technical changes; transferring the Stop Inmate Fraud Program within the Department of Financial Services to the Department of CS/ Economic Opportunity by a type two transfer; providing effective dates.

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Chip LaMarca (R)*,  Patt Maney (R), 

Other Sponsors (3)

Chapter No. 2022-138 (on 05/26/2022)

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