House panel preserves tax break for insurance companies
TALLAHASSEE — A key House committee voted Friday to protect a decades-old insurance industry tax break, siding with one of the Capitol’s most influential lobbying groups and effectively blocking a Senate priority.As grateful insurance lobbyists looked on, a unanimous House Appropriations Committee voted 26-0 to leave intact a 1987 law that gives insurance companies a 15 percent tax credit for full-time employees.