---
type: "Bill"
title: "Credit for Reinsurance"
description: "Credit for Reinsurance; Transferring specified authority and duties relating to credit for reinsurance from the Commissioner of Insurance to the Office of Insurance Regulation; revising the attorney designation requirement in reinsurance agreements with certain assuming insurers under certain circumstances; specifying requirements for assuming insurers and reinsurance agreements; authorizing a ceding insurer or its representative that is subject to rehabilitation, liquidation, or conservation to seek a certain court order; providing construction, etc."
jurisdiction: "us/states/fl"
legislature: "Florida Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 728"
citation: "Florida SB 728 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["insurance"]
status: "enacted"
chapter_law: "2021-101"
primary_sponsors: ["Broxson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-21"
last_action: "2021-06-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e0bc2bd2-1aea-4f21-a57e-34df17348d88"
source_url: "https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/728/ByCategory"
source_hash: "f3ae0eb46af46a905633968bf45d0cec0ab1b81665d6f26406a4252bfb06293b"
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 728 (2021) — Credit for Reinsurance

Credit for Reinsurance; Transferring specified authority and duties relating to credit for reinsurance from the Commissioner of Insurance to the Office of Insurance Regulation; revising the attorney designation requirement in reinsurance agreements with certain assuming insurers under certain circumstances; specifying requirements for assuming insurers and reinsurance agreements; authorizing a ceding insurer or its representative that is subject to rehabilitation, liquidation, or conservation to seek a certain court order; providing construction, etc.

**Enacted** — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2021-101.

## Version chain

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

1. **S 728 Filed** (filed) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/728/BillText/Filed/HTML)
2. **S 728 er** (enrolled) — [source](https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/728/BillText/er/HTML)

## Votes

- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **38–1** (pass) · upper
- Favorable — **16–1** (pass) · upper
- Passage, Third Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Broxson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-21** Filed `filing`
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Banking and Insurance; Judiciary; Rules `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 02/16/21, 3:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-02-16** Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-02-16** Now in Judiciary
- **2021-02-25** On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/02/21, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-02** Introduced `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** Favorable by Judiciary; YEAS 11 NAYS 0 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-02** Now in Rules
- **2021-03-18** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/18/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Not Considered
- **2021-03-22** On Committee agenda-- Rules, 03/25/21, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
- **2021-03-25** Favorable by- Rules; YEAS 16 NAYS 1 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- **2021-03-29** Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/01/21
- **2021-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-01** Passed; YEAS 38 NAYS 1 `passage`
- **2021-04-01** Immediately certified
- **2021-04-01** In Messages
- **2021-04-08** Bill referred to House Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/13/2021)
- **2021-04-08** 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
- **2021-04-13** Substituted for HB 733
- **2021-04-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-13** Placed on 3rd reading
- **2021-04-13** Added to Third Reading Calendar
- **2021-04-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-14** Passed; YEAS 118, NAYS 0 `passage`
- **2021-04-15** Message sent to senate
- **2021-04-15** 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. 2021-101

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e0bc2bd2-1aea-4f21-a57e-34df17348d88`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).