Access to Applied Behavior Analysis Services; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to consider certain factors when evaluating network adequacy for applied behavior analysis services under the Medicaid program; requiring Medicaid managed care plans to take reasonable steps to support workforce retention and recruitment; requiring managed care plans to notify providers of credentialing deficiencies in a specified manner and timeframe; prohibiting managed care plans from imposing a moratorium on applied behavior analysis services providers unless such providers can demonstrate specified criteria to the agency, etc.
Surrendering to Law Enforcement; Citing this act as “Vassallo’s Law”; requiring law enforcement agencies to implement a procedure for interviewing a surrendering person; authorizing a law enforcement officer interviewing a surrendering person to temporarily detain or arrest such person under certain circumstances; requiring a law enforcement officer interviewing a surrendering person to deliver, or have delivered, such person to the nearest receiving facility for involuntary examination under certain circumstances, etc.
Caller Identification Information; Prohibiting the transmission of misleading or inaccurate caller identification information; requiring a telecommunications company to provide the telephone number and location from which each telephone call originates; defining the term “STIR/SHAKEN authentication framework”; requiring each telecommunications company to file a certification with the Federal Communications Commission, etc.
Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Screenings; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules establishing certain practice parameters and protocols for early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for pediatric behavioral and mental health screenings; requiring health care providers to provide a parent or legal guardian information on sleep, screen time, and nutrition; requiring the Department of Health to develop and make such information available for download by health care providers, etc.
Suicide and Drug Overdose Prevention; Creating the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, within the Department of Health for specified purposes; providing for membership of the committees and duties of the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively; authorizing external stakeholders to review specified information; requiring the Drug Overdose Death Review Committee and the Suicide Death Review Committee, respectively, to annually submit a report to the Department of Health and the Statewide Drug Policy Advisory Council by a specified date, etc.
Intellectual Freedom and Viewpoint Diversity; Deleting a definition of the term “shield”; requiring the State Board of Education to ensure that Florida College System institutions are free from political influence and interference; granting specified rights to students of Florida College System institutions and state universities; granting specified rights to faculty, etc.
SB 1472 requires Florida public schools to teach grade-specific lessons on Hispanic contributions to U.S. history, culture, and society across all K-12 classrooms. For example, elementary students learn about Hispanic holidays and leaders, while high school students explore Hispanic roles in conflicts, civil rights, and economic growth. The bill mandates content covering topics like Spanish exploration, cultural influences, overcoming barriers to equality, and civic contributions, with the State Board of Education encouraged to develop standards. It takes effect on July 1, 2026, directly affecting Florida's public school curriculum and instructional materials.
Medical Malpractice Liability Coverage; Increasing the minimum amount of professional liability coverage certain physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are required to maintain as a condition of licensure, etc.
Evidence in Civil Actions Relating to Firearms; Providing that the absence of certain mechanisms or features may not be used as evidence of a defective product design, negligence, a duty to warn, strict liability, or evidence to support similar claims, etc.
Criminal Justice Commission; Creating the commission within the Department of Corrections; specifying the purpose of the commission; providing for membership of the commission; specifying terms of commission members; requiring the commission to take specified actions; providing reporting requirements; authorizing the commission to take specified actions, etc.
Traffic Enforcement; Defining the term “abandoned vehicle”; revising the circumstances under which law enforcement officers and traffic accident investigation officers may provide for the removal of an abandoned vehicle to the nearest garage or place of safety; prohibiting a person from operating a motor vehicle that the person knows bears a registration license plate or validation sticker that was not issued and assigned or lawfully transferred to the motor vehicle; specifying that using a motor vehicle to flee or attempt to elude a law enforcement officer is a circumstance under which a seizure of the motor vehicle may occur under the Florida Contraband Forfeiture Act, etc.
Pricing Based on Collection of Consumer Information; Citing this act as the “Florida Consumer Privacy Act”; declaring unlawful any act or practice of surveillance pricing; requiring certain individuals who advertise, promote, label, or publish a statement, display, image, offer, or announcement of surveillance pricing to include a specified clear and conspicuous disclosure with such statement, display, image, offer, or announcement; providing penalties, etc.
