Qualifications for County Emergency Management Directors; Requiring county emergency management directors to meet specified qualifications; requiring current such directors to meet such qualifications by specified date.
Transparency in Health and Human Services; Establishes 3-year statute of limitations for action to collect medical debt for services; provides personal property exemptions from legal process for medical debts; requires licensed facility to post on its website consumer-friendly list of standard charges; requires licensed facility to provide estimate to patient & patient's insurer; requires licensed facility to establish internal grievance process for patients to dispute charges; prohibits collection activities by licensed facility; requires health insurer to provide insured with advanced explanation of benefits for scheduled services; provides shared savings incentive offered by health insurer or HMO constitutes medical expense for rate development & rate filing purposes.
Exemption from Regulation for Bona Fide Nonprofit Organizations; Authorizes FSC to adopt rules prescribing criteria & processes for determining whether organization is bona fide nonprofit organization for specified purpose; provides exemptions from certain regulation for bona fide nonprofit organizations & certain employees of bona fide nonprofit organization that meet specified criteria; requires Office of Financial Regulation to make specified determination; requires office to make such determination based on terms consistent with loan origination in public or charitable context; requires office to periodically examine books & activities of organization & to revoke its status as bona fide nonprofit organization.
Florida Red Tide Mitigation and Technology Development Initiative; Requires initiative to develop certain deployment technologies & approaches & submit report to DEP, FWCC, DACS, & specified state agencies; requires DEP to submit evaluation regarding technologies & approaches to Mote Marine Laboratory within specified time period & amend regulatory or permitting processes & expedite regulatory reviews; removes expiration of date of initiative.
Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day; Designates Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day, which occurs on fourth Thursday in March, as legal holiday.
Construction Contracting; Requiring certain disciplinary action for specified offenses by a licensee; requiring designated contractors and qualified businesses that receive a specified amount of money for improvements to residential real property to place such payments in an escrow account with specified institutions or persons or to provide a copy of a performance bond in certain circumstances; authorizing certain disciplinary action under certain circumstances; etc.
Health Care Patient Protection; Requires hospital emergency departments to develop & implement policies and procedures, conduct training, record weights in certain manner, designate pediatric emergency care coordinator, & conduct specified assessments; requires each hospital emergency department to submit specified report to AHCA; requires AHCA to adopt rules for comprehensive emergency management plans, & in consultation with Florida Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program, establish minimum standards for pediatric patient care in hospital emergency departments.
Health Care; Revises provisions relating to medical education, public health, health care practitioners, & health care facilities to allow more access to health care services; creates the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Practice of Audiology & Speech-language Pathology Compact, & the Physical Therapy Interstate Compact. APPROPRIATION: $717,105,294
Real Property Fraud; Creates Title Fraud Prevention Through Identity Verification Pilot Program; authorizes clerk to require production of government-issued photographic ID card before recording deed & provides requirements therefor; provides requirements for clerk; provides clerk is not required to allow access to record or other information that is confidential & exempt; requires clerk to create, maintain, & operate opt-in recording notification service; requires clerk to ensure that registration for such service is possible through electronic registration portal; provides action may be brought to quiet title after fraudulent attempted conveyance; revises requirements for recording instruments affecting real property.
Children's Medical Services Program; Revises and provides requirements related to newborn testing & screening requirements; revises requirements related to certain assessment for hospitals & birth centers; provides requirements for health care practitioners & health care providers; revises purposes & functions of Children's Medical Services program; transfers operation of Children's Medical Services Managed Care Plan from department to AHCA; provides construction as to certain judicial & administrative actions; requires agency to competitively procure one or more vendors to provide certain services.
