---
type: "Bill"
title: "Insurance Administration"
description: "Insurance Administration; Revising a certain electronic signature requirement for a motor vehicle salvage certificate of title; authorizing the payment of certain workers’ compensation benefits to be transmitted to the employee’s account with a licensed money transmitter; revising criteria for assessing a residential condominium unit owner’s loss assessment coverage; specifying sales practice requirements, prohibited sales practices, and authorized sales practices relating to travel insurance, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 1606"
citation: "Florida SB 1606 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["banks and banking", "labor", "insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2020-63"
primary_sponsors: ["Perry"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b95792-b7b0-438a-88a0-f8b25a46a695"
source_url: "http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1606/ByCategory"
source_hash: "b09b4a544b6be42991fa6fcd3fcc9add2b5104a9221728bb1bcdbb3ac2da7683"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-fl"]
---

# Florida SB 1606 (2020) — Insurance Administration

Insurance Administration; Revising a certain electronic signature requirement for a motor vehicle salvage certificate of title; authorizing the payment of certain workers’ compensation benefits to be transmitted to the employee’s account with a licensed money transmitter; revising criteria for assessing a residential condominium unit owner’s loss assessment coverage; specifying sales practice requirements, prohibited sales practices, and authorized sales practices relating to travel insurance, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-63.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S 1606 Filed** (filed) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1606/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 1606 c1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1606/BillText/c1/HTML)
3. **S 1606 c2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1606/BillText/c2/HTML)
4. **S 1606 er** (enrolled) — [source](http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/1606/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **20–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable with Committee Substitute — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Perry — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-09** Filed `filing`
- **2020-01-17** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Infrastructure and Security; Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced `introduction`
- **2020-01-30** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 02/04/20, 12:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-02-04** CS by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-05** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-06** CS by Banking and Insurance read 1st time
- **2020-02-10** Now in Infrastructure and Security
- **2020-02-12** On Committee agenda-- Infrastructure and Security, 02/17/20, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building
- **2020-02-17** CS/CS by Infrastructure and Security; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
- **2020-02-19** Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
- **2020-02-19** CS/CS by Infrastructure and Security read 1st time
- **2020-02-20** Now in Appropriations
- **2020-02-27** On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/03/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2020-03-03** Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-03-04** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/06/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-09** CS passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-09** In Messages
- **2020-03-09** Referred to Calendar `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-09** Received
- **2020-03-10** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/10/20
- **2020-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-10** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2020-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-11** CS passed; YEAS 116 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2020-03-11** Ordered enrolled
- **2020-06-11** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2020-06-20** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-22** Chapter No. 2020-63

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43b95792-b7b0-438a-88a0-f8b25a46a695`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).