Nursing Home Facility Quality Assessments; Exempting certain nursing home facility providers from quality assessments, etc.
Florida Young Farmer and Rancher Matching Grant Program; Creating the program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring the department to select grant recipients based on specified criteria; providing that a recipient may not receive more than one award per year under the program; specifying that grant funding is contingent upon specific annual appropriation by the Legislature, etc. APPROPRIATION: $500,000
Telehealth; Prohibiting Medicaid managed care plans from using providers who exclusively provide services through telehealth to achieve network adequacy; prohibiting certain health insurance policies from denying coverage for covered services provided through telehealth under certain circumstances; requiring certain small employer benefit plans to comply with certain requirements for reimbursement of telehealth services; deleting requirements for contracts between certain health insurers and telehealth providers; prohibiting certain health maintenance organizations from denying coverage for covered services provided through telehealth under certain circumstances, etc.
Surplus State-owned Nonconservation Lands; Authorizing the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to dispose of surplus nonconservation lands under certain circumstances; authorizing the board to convey such lands to fiscally constrained counties under certain circumstances; authorizing the board of trustees to sell or lease surplus nonconservation lands located in fiscally constrained counties to private entities under certain circumstances, etc.
Eligibility for Assistance Programs; Removing provisions authorizing certain benefits to be denied to individuals based solely on certain felony drug trafficking convictions; removing a limitation on the state’s opting out of certain federal provisions relating to such benefit eligibility, etc.
Cost-share Program for Agriculture, Shellfish Aquaculture, and Timber Operations; Citing this act as the “Protecting Florida’s Natural Resources Act”; establishing a cost-share program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring the program, subject to legislative appropriation, to provide funds equal to a specified percentage of the value of environmental services that the agriculture, shellfish aquaculture, and timber industries provide; requiring the department to conduct a study to determine the value of such environmental services, in consultation with certain entities, etc.
Pay-for-success Contracts; Authorizing a state agency to enter into a pay-for-success contract with a private entity under certain conditions, subject to an appropriation and specified language in the General Appropriations Act; authorizing cancellation of the contract under specified circumstances; specifying services and programs eligible for funding under the contract; prohibiting a private entity from viewing or receiving personal client information that is otherwise confidential and exempt from public records requirements, etc.
Licensure for Tree Care Services; Designating the “Florida Arborist and Tree Care Practitioners Licensing Act”; establishing the Florida Board of Tree Experts within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring the board to develop or designate a licensure examination for licensed Florida arborists; providing requirements for licensure as a licensed Florida arborist and a licensed tree care practitioner; providing grounds for the board to suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew a license or admit a person to a licensing examination; requiring a business engaged in tree care services to biennially register with the board by providing the board with certain information, etc.
Public Records/Public Employees Relations Commission; Exempting the personal identifying and location information of the chair, commissioners, and hearing officers of the Public Employees Relations Commission and the personal identifying and location information of spouses and children of such personnel from public records requirements; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Solar Photovoltaic Facility Development; Citing this act as the "Brownfields to Brightfields Act"; directing the Department of Environmental Protection, in coordination with the Office of Energy within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to conduct a study of brownfield sites and closed landfill sites to determine viable locations for redevelopment as solar photovoltaic facilities, etc.
