Each week during Florida’s interim committee weeks and the annual legislative session, FJA provides our members with an overview of the most up-to-date important legislative action and activities in Tallahassee.
However, the legislative process is very fluid, and things can change at a moment’s notice as new bills are filed, meetings are noticed late, amendments are created and noticed late. Your FJA legislative team works to track these activities and alert our legislative committee chairs and committees as things happen in real time. If information changes after our weekly email update, we notify the appropriate committee and practice groups and provide updates on this page.
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Week three of the 2022 Legislative session was interesting with much activity on various priority bills for the FJA and our members. We received great news earlier today that the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee will hear the Responsible Roadways bill,SB 150, by Sen. Burgess, replacing personal injury protection (PIP) with Bodily Injury Liability auto insurance on Wednesday of next week. READ MORE.
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The 2022 legislative session officially convened on Tuesday, with a joint session of the House and Senate and the State of the State address by Gov. Ron DeSantis. Senate lawmakers moved quickly to finalize Florida’s redistricting process when the Senate Reapportionment Committee unanimously approved redrawn maps covering 28 Congressional districts and 40 State Senate districts with SB 102.
On Tuesday, bills that would repeal Florida’s broken Personal Injury Protection (PIP) auto insurance system and allow Florida to join the ranks of 48 other states that have responsibility-based auto insurance were filed in both the House and Senate.
Lawmakers convened meetings on several issues of note this week, including, the financial viability of Florida’s hospitals and nursing home facilities, extending protections that shield healthcare providers from COVID-19 related liability, and proposals on property insurance and construction defects that would hurt consumers and create new impediments to property owners being able to seek justice when a property insurer or builder is negligent.
Special Session: This week the Florida Legislature convened a brief three-day special session to address vaccine mandates by Florida political subdivisions and private businesses. Lawmakers made quick work of passing several bills that were approved largely along partisan lines, and sent them to Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday.
Interim Committee Week 4: The special session has been called to address vaccination mandates by Florida political subdivisions and private businesses. The Governor made this call last Friday and asked lawmakers to convene the special session the week of November 15. It will be week five out of six in preparation for the nine-week 2022 legislative session.
Interim Committee Week 3: The top point of interest coming out of the third legislative committee week, last week, was the Governor’s announcement that he is calling for the Legislature to convene a special session to address vaccination mandates by Florida political subdivisions and private businesses.
Interim Committee Week 2: Ready or not the 2022 Legislative Session is right around the corner and in preparation for the annual convening of the Florida Legislature, lawmakers have returned to Tallahassee for Interim Committee weeks. Keeping FJA members informed, we will provide weekly recaps on Fridays afternoons during committee weeks and legislative session.