Coverage for Air Ambulance Services; Requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations, respectively, to provide reasonable reimbursement to air ambulance services for certain covered services; providing that such reimbursement may be reduced only by certain amounts; providing that full payment of an applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible constitutes an accord, satisfaction, and release of certain claims, etc.
Nurse Registry; Authorizing the use of licensed nurse registries for the placement of attendant care provided for workers’ compensation purposes, etc.
Recreational Vehicle Industries; Preempting to the Department of Health the regulatory authority for permitting standards; providing standards for a damaged or destroyed recreational vehicle park to be rebuilt under certain circumstances; authorizing a park operator to refuse access to the premises and to eject transient guests or visitors based on specified conduct; providing for ejection from a park and specifying grounds and requirements therefor, etc.
Special Neighborhood Improvement Districts; Revising the number of directors allowed on the boards of special neighborhood improvement districts; requiring local planning ordinances to specify the number of directors and provide for 4-year staggered terms; requiring that directors be landowners in the proposed area and be subject to certain taxation, etc.
Florida Commission on Human Relations; Revising quorum requirements for the Commission on Human Relations and its panels; revising the number of persons the commission must recommend for the Florida Civil Rights Hall of Fame; deleting a requirement that a facility or community that provides housing for older persons register with and submit a letter to the commission; deleting the requirement for the commission or Attorney General to investigate a complaint of discrimination in evaluating an application for club membership, etc.
Insurance Guaranty Associations; Increasing the obligation of the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated, for certain claims under policies covering certain condominium associations and homeowners’ associations; increasing the percentage limit of certain insurer net written premiums up to which the Office of Insurance Regulation may levy certain emergency assessments upon insurers, etc.
Incarcerated Pregnant Women; Revising the circumstances under which a prisoner who is known to be pregnant may not be restrained; specifying conditions under which restraints may be used; requiring that invasive body cavity searches on a pregnant prisoner be conducted by a medical professional; prohibiting the involuntary placement of pregnant prisoners in restrictive housing, etc.
Space Florida; Clarifying that Space Florida is subject to a specified provision of law; revising Space Florida’s authorization to issue bonds; revising the revenue sources by which revenue bonds may be secured or repaid; revising the term “expanded” to “expended” to clarify the authority of the governing body of Space Florida; reducing the term of years for which Space Florida may issue bonds, etc.
Disposition of Surplus Funds by Candidates; Prohibiting a candidate from donating surplus funds to a charitable organization that employs the candidate; authorizing any candidate to give certain surplus funds to the state or a political subdivision to be disbursed in a specified manner, etc.
Telegraph Companies; Repealing provisions relating to the regulation of telegraph companies and telegrams, etc.
Protection of Vulnerable Investors; Requiring securities dealers, investment advisers, and associated persons to immediately report knowledge or suspicion of abuse, neglect, or exploitation of vulnerable adults to the Department of Children and Families’ central abuse hotline; authorizing dealers and investment advisers to delay disbursements or transactions of funds or securities from certain accounts associated with specified adults if certain conditions are met; providing for administrative and civil immunity for dealers, investment advisers, and associated persons, etc.
Local Government Public Construction Works; Revising disclosure requirements for bidding documents and other requests for proposals issued for bids by a local governmental entity and public contracts entered into between local governmental entities and contractors; revising the term cost to include specified information; requiring estimated total construction project costs for certain projects to include specified costs, etc.
