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Bill	Insurance Guaranty Associations	Insurance Guaranty Associations; Authorizing certain guaranty association employees to adjust losses for the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association if certain conditions are met; redefining the term “net direct written premiums” as “direct written premiums” and revising the definition of that term; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the Office of Insurance Regulation on insurers in the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the office on insurers in the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, etc.	us/states/fl	Florida Legislature	2020	SB 540	Florida SB 540 (2020)	bill	insurance	enacted	2020-54	Rader	2	30	5	2019-10-16	2020-06-22	openstates	ocd-bill/295f6d86-a930-48c8-98e6-d75ccfd58c9a	http://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/540/ByCategory	3995845c82c105909e0b63c7f218faac64b04633a1783cd36863fe4506f292d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-fl

Florida SB 540 (2020) — Insurance Guaranty Associations

Insurance Guaranty Associations; Authorizing certain guaranty association employees to adjust losses for the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association if certain conditions are met; redefining the term “net direct written premiums” as “direct written premiums” and revising the definition of that term; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the Office of Insurance Regulation on insurers in the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association; deleting a calculation of initial estimated assessments levied by the office on insurers in the Florida Workers’ Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, etc.

Enacted — Laws of Florida, Chapter 2020-54.

Version chain

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

1. S 540 Filed (filed) — source
2. S 540 er (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Third Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 20–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Favorable — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage, Third Reading — 116–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rader — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-10-16 Filed filing
• 2019-11-01 Referred to Banking and Insurance; Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations referral-committee
• 2019-11-05 On Committee agenda-- Banking and Insurance, 11/12/19, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2019-11-12 Favorable by Banking and Insurance; YEAS 7 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-11-12 Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
• 2020-01-14 Introduced introduction
• 2020-01-17 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government, 01/22/20, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Building
• 2020-01-22 Subcommittee Recommendation: Favorable by Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
• 2020-01-23 Now in Appropriations
• 2020-01-31 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/05/20, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
• 2020-02-03 On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 02/06/20, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
• 2020-02-05 Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 20 NAYS 0 committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-02-06 Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
• 2020-02-17 Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/19/20
• 2020-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-19 Placed on 3rd reading
• 2020-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-26 Passed; YEAS 40 NAYS 0 passage
• 2020-03-03 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 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. 2020-54

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/295f6d86-a930-48c8-98e6-d75ccfd58c9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Florida legislature records).