Bill Text: FL H1193 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Health Insurance

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 34-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-02 - Ordered enrolled -HJ 1004 [H1193 Detail]

Download: Florida-2011-H1193-Comm_Sub.html

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CS/HB 1193

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to health insurance; creating s. 624.24,
3	F.S.; prohibiting a person from being compelled to
4	purchase health insurance except under specified
5	conditions; specifying that the act does not prohibit the
6	collection of certain debts; providing an effective date.
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8	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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10	Section 1.  Section 624.24, Florida Statutes, is created to
11	read:
12	624.24  Prohibition against requiring the purchase of
13	health insurance; exceptions.-
14	(1)  A person may not be compelled to purchase health
15	insurance, except as a condition of:
16	(a)  Public employment;
17	(b)  Voluntary participation in a state or local benefit;
18	(c)  Operating a dangerous instrumentality;
19	(d)  Undertaking an occupation having a risk of
20	occupational injury or illness;
21	(e)  An order of child support; or
22	(f)  Activity between private persons.
23	(2)  This section does not prohibit the collection of debts
24	lawfully incurred for health insurance.
25	Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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