---
type: "Bill"
title: "Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association"
description: "Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; Redefines \"person,\" to apply to provisions relating to life & health insurance guaranty of payments; authorizes Florida Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association to assume, reissue, & cause to be reissued covered polices of impaired insurers; revises association's standing before court; provides association has right to appear or intervene before court or agency in another state; authorizes board of directors of association to credit specified assessments against certain future assessments; requires member insurers to pay deferred assessments."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 797"
citation: "Florida HB 797 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["j"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-109"
primary_sponsors: ["Robinson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-05"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3bee9c27-994b-4cd7-bcc5-ec5bac13248a"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/797/ByCategory"
source_hash: "34650b09a0059d83f204001f3dba4706eaedd6cd48060bf7b3b6fc6706307f0a"
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 HB 797 (2021) — Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association

Florida Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; Redefines "person," to apply to provisions relating to life & health insurance guaranty of payments; authorizes Florida Life & Health Insurance Guaranty Association to assume, reissue, & cause to be reissued covered polices of impaired insurers; revises association's standing before court; provides association has right to appear or intervene before court or agency in another state; authorizes board of directors of association to credit specified assessments against certain future assessments; requires member insurers to pay deferred assessments.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-109.

## Version chain

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

1. **H 797 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/797/BillText/Filed/PDF)
2. **H 797 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/797/BillText/er/PDF)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable (Commerce Committee) — **24–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee) — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- Favorable (Insurance & Banking Subcommittee) — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Robinson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-05** Filed `filing`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Referred to Commerce Committee `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-22** Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-03-02** Added to Insurance & Banking Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-02** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-03-04** Favorable by Insurance & Banking Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-04** Reported out of Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
- **2021-03-04** Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-05** Added to State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee agenda
- **2021-03-09** Favorable by State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-09** Reported out of State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
- **2021-03-09** Now in Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-12** Added to Commerce Committee agenda
- **2021-03-16** Favorable by Commerce Committee `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** Reported out of Commerce Committee
- **2021-03-16** Bill released to House Calendar
- **2021-03-16** Added to Second Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/15/2021)
- **2021-04-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-15** Passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** In Messages
- **2021-04-19** Referred to Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-20** Received
- **2021-04-21** Withdrawn from Appropriations `withdrawal`
- **2021-04-21** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-04-21** Substituted for SB 1470
- **2021-04-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-21** Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-21** In Messages
- **2021-04-21** Ordered enrolled
- **2021-06-14** Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
- **2021-06-16** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`
- **2021-06-17** Chapter No. 2021-109

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3bee9c27-994b-4cd7-bcc5-ec5bac13248a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).