S 0004A Hurricane Preparedness & Property Insurance SENATE VOTES 40-0 -- UNANIMOUS! |
An
Opinion By Jan Bergemann Published January 18, 2007
With a vote of 40-0 the Florida Senate passed yesterday a very comprehensive property insurance bill that seems to be very promising for the owners.
The bill, 180 pages long, deals with many issues that we consumers had asked for in order to give us financial relief from the outrageous insurance premiums we owners are facing! This bill covers a lot of the issues we consumers had asked for. It seems that the Senate sure listened to the public outcry!
Thank
you, Senators, for your willingness to put a bipartisan effort into this
project!
Please see the Bill S 0004 A at: http://www.flsenate.gov/cgi-bin/view_page.pl?Tab=session&Submenu=1&FT=D&File=sb0004Ae1.html &Directory=session/2007A/Senate/bills/billtext/html/
It sure is a good start -- and even if Citizens needs some more power to be competitive -- there is still a regular session forthcoming in March, where a lot of the fixes can be applied. This
sure is a good bill -- on first view! We need to take a closer look into the
details and will have to see how it will work in daily life!
It takes our efforts to convince the Representatives to approve the Senate bill as is -- and not listen to the lobbyists of the insurance industry. As we have seen in the last few years their statements contained a lot less truth than the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm!
Please write e-mails and call the local district offices of your Representatives and ask them to vote in favor of Senate Bill S 004A.
CONTACT YOUR HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE
The Senate did it's job, now it's up to our Representatives to do their job and give us the relief we desperately need! |
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