Title: Health Insurance

Summary: Prohibits person from being compelled to purchase health insurance except under specified conditions; specifies that act does not prohibit collection of certain debts.

Full Text:
An act relating to health insurance; creating s. 624.24, F.S.; prohibiting a person from being compelled to purchase health insurance except under specified conditions; specifying that the act does not prohibit the collection of certain debts; providing an effective date. 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 10 Section 1. Section 624.24, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 624.24 Prohibition against requiring the purchase of health insurance; exceptions.-(1) A person may not be compelled to purchase health insurance, except as a condition of: (a) Public employment; (b) Voluntary participation in a state or local benefit; (c) Operating a dangerous instrumentality; (d) Undertaking an occupation having a risk of occupational injury or illness; (e) An order of child support; or (f) Activity between private persons. (2) This section does not prohibit the collection of debts lawfully incurred for health insurance. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.