Sen. Darryl Rouson

Insurance Coverage Parity for Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders; Requiring Medicaid managed care plans to submit an annual report to the Agency for Health Care Administration relating to parity between mental health and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits; requiring certain entities transacting individual or group health insurance or providing prepaid health care to comply with specified federal provisions that prohibit the imposition of less favorable benefit limitations on mental health and substance use disorder benefits than on medical and surgical benefits; revising the standard for defining substance use disorders, etc.

Business Services; Creating the Access to Responsible Credit Pilot Program within the Office of Financial Regulation; requiring a program license from the office to advertise, offer, or make program loans or to impose certain charges or fees; specifying requirements for program licensees, program loans, loan repayments, rescissions, interest rates, program loan refinancing, receipts, disclosures and statements provided by program licensees to borrowers, origination fees, insufficient funds fees, and delinquency charges, etc. APPROPRIATION: $407,520

First-episode Psychosis Programs; Defining the term “first-episode psychosis program”; revising the application criteria for the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Reinvestment Grant Program to include support for first-episode psychosis programs; requiring the Department of Children and Families to include specified information regarding first-episode psychosis programs in its annual assessment of behavioral health services, etc.

Cultural Affairs; Providing that the Secretary of State shall be known as “Florida’s Chief Arts and Culture Officer”; renaming the Division of Cultural Affairs of the Department of State as the Division of Arts and Culture, etc.

Housing Discrimination; Providing that discriminatory restrictions are unlawful, unenforceable, and declared null and void; removing housing discrimination as a cause of action for certain relief and damages stemming from violations of the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; revising the conditions under which an aggrieved person may commence a civil action in any appropriate court against a specified respondent to enforce specified rights; authorizing, rather than requiring, a civil action to commence within a specified period after an alleged discriminatory housing practice, 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.

Child Welfare; Citing this act as “Jordan’s Law”; expanding the list of entities with access to certain records that relate to child abandonment, abuse, or neglect held by the Department of Children and Families; authorizing the parent or legal guardian of a child to request a second medical evaluation of a child under certain circumstances; revising the definition of the terms “guardian ad litem” and “guardian advocate”; requiring a lead agency to ensure that certain individuals receive specified training relating to head trauma and brain injuries in children younger than a specified age, etc.

Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month; Recognizing September 2020 as “Sickle Cell Disease Awareness Month” in Florida, etc.

Prohibited Discrimination; Citing this act as the "Florida Competitive Workforce Act"; adding sexual orientation and gender identity as impermissible grounds for discrimination in public lodging establishments and public food service establishments; providing an exception for constitutionally protected free exercise of religion, etc.