Florida SB 84: Transportation Facility Designations/Jimmy Buffett Highway

Bill Text

84 
Insurance Solutions Advisory Council 
2025-09-24T12:07:07Z 
Creating the advisory council within the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial Services Commission for specified purposes; requiring the office to provide the advisory council with staffing and administrative assistance; providing for expiration of the advisory council, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 84 

 By Senator Berman 

 26-00112-26 202684__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Insurance Solutions Advisory 
 3 Council; creating the advisory council within the 
 4 Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial 
 5 Services Commission for specified purposes; providing 
 6 for membership and meetings of the advisory council; 
 7 requiring the office to provide the advisory council 
 8 with staffing and administrative assistance; requiring 
 9 the advisory council to submit a specified report 
 10 annually; providing for expiration of the advisory 
 11 council; providing an effective date. 
 12 
 13 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 14 
 15 Section 1. Insurance Solutions Advisory Council.— 
 16 (1) The Insurance Solutions Advisory Council, an advisory 
 17 council as defined in s. 20.03(7), Florida Statutes, is created 
 18 within the Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial 
 19 Services Commission to compile and analyze available data and 
 20 evaluate relevant and applicable information relating to this 
 21 state’s property and motor vehicle insurance markets. The 
 22 advisory council shall serve in an advisory capacity to the 
 23 office and the Legislature. 
 24 (2) The advisory council shall be composed of the following 
 25 members: 
 26 (a) Three members appointed by the Speaker of the House of 
 27 Representatives, as follows: 
 28 1. One member representing a property and casualty 
 29 residential insurer that has issued at least 150,000 homeowners’ 
 30 insurance policies in this state at the time of the creation of 
 31 the advisory council. 
 32 2. One member representing a surplus lines insurance 
 33 company. 
 34 3. One member who is a trial attorney. 
 35 (b) Three members appointed by the President of the Senate, 
 36 as follows: 
 37 1. One member representing a property and casualty 
 38 commercial nonresidential insurer. 
 39 2. One member representing a property and casualty 
 40 residential insurer that has issued fewer than 150,000 
 41 homeowners’ insurance policies in this state at the time of the 
 42 creation of the advisory council. 
 43 3. One member who is a public adjuster. 
 44 (c) Three members appointed by the Governor who are not 
 45 employed by or professionally affiliated with an insurance 
 46 company or a subsidiary of an insurance company, at least one of 
 47 whom must be a consumer advocate or a member of a consumer 
 48 advocacy organization or agency and one of whom must be 
 49 recommended by the Florida Insurance Council. The Governor shall 
 50 appoint one such member as the advisory council’s chair. 
 51 (d) Two members appointed by the Chief Financial Officer, 
 52 representing insurance agents in this state. 
 53 (e) One member representing Citizens Property Insurance 
 54 Corporation, selected by the chair of the board of directors of 
 55 the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation. 
 56 (f) The commissioner of the Office of Insurance Regulation 
 57 of the Financial Services Commission or his or her designee. 
 58 (3) Advisory council members must be appointed no later 
 59 than August 1, 2026. Members serve at the pleasure of the 
 60 officer who appointed them, and a vacancy on the advisory 
 61 council must be filled in the same manner as the original 
 62 appointment. Advisory council members shall serve without 
 63 compensation but are entitled to reimbursement for per diem and 
 64 travel expenses pursuant to s. 112.061, Florida Statutes. 
 65 (4) The advisory council shall meet at the call of the 
 66 chair at a time and location in this state designated by the 
 67 chair. 
 68 (5) The Office of Insurance Regulation of the Financial 
 69 Services Commission shall provide staffing and administrative 
 70 assistance to the advisory council in performing its duties. 
 71 (6) Beginning October 1, 2026, the advisory council shall 
 72 submit an annual report to the Governor, the President of the 
 73 Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives 
 74 regarding its analysis as specified in subsection (1) and any 
 75 recommendations related to property and motor vehicle insurance 
 76 in this state. 
 77 (7) In accordance with s. 20.052(8), Florida Statutes, this 
 78 section is repealed October 2, 2029, unless reviewed and saved 
 79 from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature. 
 80 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.