SURETY BOND BLOG

Monthly Archives: December 2009

In Florida, a new law was enacted relating to money services businesses titled SB 2158. The new law raises the required license bond requirement amount for money transmitters and would require licensure as oppose to the present registration requirements. The prior law had the Financial Services Commission establish the amount required which could be up read more »

Introduced on March 6th, 2008, SB 2534 is a new law regarding a health insurance program in the state of Florida. SB 2534 creates the Florida Health Choices, Inc. for a statewide reasonably priced health insurance program. The new law also allows Florida Health Choices, Inc. to ask for performance bonds for its vendor contracts. read more »

On 01/31/2007, a new bill was enacted concerning tax bond requirements in the state of Georgia. The new bill, which is named HB 237, subjects manufacturing gear to the same sales and use tax requirement for manufacturing machinery and equipment. The present law permits a purchaser to acquire an exclusion from the taxes by getting read more »

Our office will be closing today, 12/23/09 at noon to give our employees a much deserved break. We will be reopening on Monday, 12/28/09 at 8:30am eastern time. We will then be closing again on 12/31/09 and 1/1/10 for the new year. It will be business as usual as of Monday, 1/4/10. Happy Holidays!

Georgia state law has been altered by a new law which was added concerning city officers and employees. Titled HB 1033, the new law produces a new charter for the City of Edgehill. The charter asks both elected and appointed officers and employees of the city to post surety or fidelity bonds; they must follow read more »