Florida Senate Bill 856 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (? 2-1)
Status: Failed on April 28 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-04-28 - Died in Messages
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Providing that a health insurer, a prepaid limited health service organization, and a health maintenance organization, respectively, may not require a licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist to join a network solely for the purpose of credentialing the licensee for another vision network; providing that such insurers and organizations are not prevented by the act from entering into a contract with another vision care plan; providing that such insurers and organizations may not restrict or limit a licensed ophthalmologist, optometrist, or optician to specific suppliers of materials or optical laboratories, etc.

Vision Care Plans

Senate Rules Committee

Senate Banking and Insurance Committee

Sen. Jack Latvala [R]

2015-04-14 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RCS#8 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-28	House	Died in Messages
2015-04-14	House	In Messages
2015-04-14	Senate	Immediately certified
2015-04-14	Senate	CS passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 0
2015-04-14	Senate	Read 3rd time
2015-04-08	Senate	Placed on 3rd reading
2015-04-08	Senate	Read 2nd time
2015-04-07	Senate	CS/CS by Rules read 1st time
2015-04-03	Senate	Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/08/15
2015-04-03	Senate	Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
2015-04-03	Senate	Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2015-04-02	Senate	CS/CS by- Rules; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
2015-03-30	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Rules, 04/02/15, 11:30 am, 110 Senate Office Building
2015-03-25	Senate	Now in Rules
2015-03-24	Senate	Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
2015-03-20	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/24/15, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
2015-03-19	Senate	Now in Judiciary
2015-03-18	Senate	CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
2015-03-18	Senate	Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
2015-03-17	Senate	CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
2015-03-12	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 03/17/15, 9:00 am, 110 Senate Office Building
2015-03-03	Senate	Introduced
2015-02-20	Senate	Referred to Banking and Insurance; Judiciary; Rules
2015-02-12	Senate	Filed

H0769 (Same As) 2015-04-28 - Died in Insurance and Banking Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
501	501		Amended Code	See Bill Text
627	6474		Amended Code	See Bill Text
636	035		Amended Code	See Bill Text
641	315		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/856
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/BillText/Filed/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/BillText/c1/HTML
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/BillText/c2/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/Amendment/298990/HTML
Amendment	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/Amendment/490478/HTML
Roll Call	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0856/Vote/SenateVote_s0856c2008.PDF