Sen. Ralph Massullo

Health Insurance Claims; Expanding the scope of the statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program to include resolution of denied prior authorization requests; providing that participation in the program is mandatory and prohibiting providers and health plans from opting out of the claim dispute resolution process; prohibiting contracts between certain physicians and health insurers and health maintenance organizations, respectively, from specifying credit card payments to physicians as the only acceptable method for payments; authorizing use of electronic funds transfers by health insurers and health maintenance organizations, respectively, for payments to physicians under certain circumstances, etc.

Charter Schools; Authorizing Florida College System institutions and state universities to sponsor job engine charter schools; requiring that specified tax funds be provided annually to the sponsor of a job engine charter school, etc.

Regulation of Public Swimming Pools and Bathing Places; Providing that, notwithstanding an exemption from supervision or regulation, certain pools are subject to annual inspections by the Department of Health to ensure compliance with specified standards; providing the Public Swimming Pool and Spa Technical Committee with the sole authority to review and approve certain variances; requiring certain department and county health department employees to obtain the Florida Public Pool Specialist Certification within a specified timeframe; deleting a certain advisory review board and replacing it with the Public Swimming Pool and Spa Technical Committee, etc.

Religious Expression in Public Schools; Proposing the creation of a section of the State Constitution to provide protection from discrimination for student and school personnel religious expression in public schools, etc.

Admissible Evidence in Personal Injury or Wrongful Death Actions; Providing that evidence admissible in personal injury or wrongful death actions may be used for rebutting, as well as for proving, the amount of certain damages; providing that such evidence may be offered by any party, etc.

Relief of Sean Hurley by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office; Providing for an appropriation to compensate Mr. Hurley for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of the Orange County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: Indeterminate

Recognizing Judea and Samaria; Citing this act as the “Recognizing Judea and Samaria Act”; prohibiting state agencies from using the term “West Bank” in official government materials; prohibiting state agencies from using moneys to create official government materials using such term; requiring instructional materials and library media center collections adopted by certain entities on or after a specified date to refer to a certain area as Judea and Samaria, etc.

Insurance Claims Payments to Health Care Providers; Prohibiting payment adjudicators from downcoding health care services under certain circumstances; specifying that payment adjudicators are solely responsible for certain violations of law; requiring certain utilization review entities to only use a certain prior authorization form; revising the definition of the term “claim”, etc.

Transportation; Revising the membership composition of the Florida Transportation Research Institute; requiring the Department of Transportation to coordinate with the Department of Commerce, specified ports, and the Federal Government for a certain purpose; revising the visible signals given by an approaching emergency vehicle upon which a driver must yield the right-of-way; prohibiting a personal delivery device from operating as otherwise authorized unless the personal delivery device meets certain criteria and a human operator is capable of controlling and monitoring its navigation and operation; revising a limitation on the number of times a person may elect to attend a basic driver improvement course under certain circumstances, etc. APPROPRIATION: $300,000

Maddy summarySB 1102 amends Florida law to explicitly include body cameras as a qualifying use of infrastructure funding. The bill revises the definition of "infrastructure" under Section 212.055 to add body camera equipment, software, and storage as eligible expenses for local government infrastructure surtax proceeds. This change directly affects law enforcement agencies (police, sheriff's offices) by allowing them to use existing infrastructure tax funds to purchase or maintain body cameras, as referenced in Section 943.1718. The bill does not create new funding but expands the current definition of eligible infrastructure expenditures to cover body camera systems. It remains a procedural adjustment to funding rules, not a new policy requiring voter approval.