Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 — Florida lawmakers have passed bills extending a rate freeze and making it easier to join the state-run insurance pool that now covers more than 1.3 million policyholders across the hurricane-racked state. In the waning hours of the 2007 session, members in both the Senate and the House approved changes to Citizens Property Insurance Corp., the state-run insurer pool that is now the largest property insurer in Florida.