Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Requiring that certain reports relating to the transportation or possession of cigarettes be filed with the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco through the division’s electronic data submission system; renaming the Florida State Boxing Commission as the Florida Athletic Commission; revising requirements for issuing special licenses to certain food service establishments; providing the circumstances under which a person is delinquent in the payment of an assessment in the context of eligibility for membership on certain condominium boards, etc.
Child Welfare; Requiring the Florida Court Educational Council to establish certain standards for instruction of circuit and county court judges for dependency cases; authorizing circuit courts to create early childhood court programs; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to provide or contract for specified duties; requiring the court to retain jurisdiction over a child under certain circumstances, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,249,690
Environmental Accountability; Revising administrative penalties for violations of certain provisions relating to beach and shore construction and activities; revising civil penalties for violations of certain provisions relating to water resources, artesian wells, terminal facilities, discharge contingency plans for vessels, the Pollutant Discharge Prevention and Control Act, regulation of oil and gas resources, the Phosphate Land Reclamation Act, sewage disposal facilities, dumping litter, small quantity generators, and coral reef protection, respectively, etc.
Children’s Mental Health; Requiring the Department of Children and Families and the Agency for Health Care Administration to identify certain children and adolescents who use crisis stabilization services during specified fiscal years; including crisis response services provided through mobile response teams in the array of services available to children and adolescents; requiring managing entities to develop a plan promoting the development of a coordinated system of care for certain services; requiring the agency to conduct, or contract for, the testing of provider network databases maintained by Medicaid managed care plans for specified purposes, etc.
Time Limitation on the Prosecution of Sexual Battery Cases; Providing that a prosecution may be commenced at any time for specified sexual battery offenses against victims who were younger than a certain age at the time the offense was committed, etc.
Alzheimer’s Disease; Requiring state agencies to provide assistance to the Alzheimer’s Disease Advisory Committee, upon request; creating the position of Dementia Director within the Department of Elderly Affairs; revising incentive funding criteria for memory disorder clinics; revising the information the department must consider when developing the allocation formula for respite care, etc.
Practice of Pharmacy; Requiring certain licensed pharmacists to report specified information relating to public health to the Department of Health; requiring a pharmacist to complete additional training to be licensed as a consultant pharmacist; specifying criteria a pharmacist must meet to provide services under a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement; prohibiting collaborating physicians from delegating to pharmacists the authority to initiate or prescribe a controlled substance, etc.
Moments of Silence in Public Schools; Requiring that public school principals require teachers to set aside time for a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day; prohibiting teachers from making suggestions as to the nature of any reflection that a student may engage in during the moment of silence; requiring certain teachers to encourage parents to discuss the moment of silence with their children and to make suggestions as to the best use of this time, etc.
Trusts; Authorizing trustees of certain trusts to reimburse persons being treated as the owner of the trust for specified amounts and in a specified manner; prohibiting certain policies, values, and proceeds from being used for such reimbursement; requiring that specified powers be granted to certain persons if the terms of the trust require a trustee to act at the direction or with the consent of such persons or that specified decisions be made directly by such persons, etc.
Transportation Companies; Defining the term “transportation network company digital advertising device”; deleting for-hire vehicles from the list of vehicles that are excluded from transportation network company (TNC) provisions; authorizing TNC drivers or their designees to contract with companies to install TNC digital advertising devices on TNC vehicles; defining the term “luxury ground transportation network company”; authorizing entities to elect to be regulated as luxury ground TNCs by notifying the Department of Financial Services, etc.
K-12 Scholarship Programs; Revising initial scholarship eligibility criteria for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising eligibility criteria for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and applying the criteria only to initial eligibility; requiring scholarship-funding organizations to use excess contributions to fund scholarships for specified students under certain conditions, etc.
Decedents’ Property; Specifying that precious metals are tangible personal property for the purposes of the Florida Probate Code; specifying that certain attorneys and persons are not entitled to compensation for serving as a personal representative unless the attorney or person is related to the testator or unless certain disclosures are made before a will is executed; specifying that certain attorneys and persons are not entitled to compensation for serving as a trustee unless the attorney or person is related to the settlor or unless certain disclosures are made before the trust instrument is executed, etc.
