Attorney Fees and Costs for Motor Vehicle Personal Injury Protection Benefits; Providing that prevailing parties in suits by certain health care providers for overdue medical benefits under motor vehicle personal injury protection policies are entitled to reasonable attorney fees and costs, etc.
Elections; Revising the list of required items that must be received by a specified officer for nomination and election qualification; providing a method to challenge the contents of certain forms and statements; prohibiting a qualifying officer from accepting certain items after a specified deadline; revising where secure ballot intake stations may be placed and when they may be accessed; revising who is required to give approval and permission to use names, abbreviations, and symbols of political parties, etc.
Fleeing or Attempting to Elude a Law Enforcement Officer; Authorizing a law enforcement agency to impound a motor vehicle driven by a person who willfully flees or attempts to elude a law enforcement officer; requiring the impounding agency to provide certain notifications; requiring the release of the impounded motor vehicle in certain circumstances, etc.
Claims for Adverse Reactions to Vaccines and Drugs Under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Medically Needy Programs; Citing this act as "Cody’s Law: Florida No Vaccine-Injured Patient Left Behind"; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to expedite the review and payment process for claims related to adverse reactions to vaccines, immunizing agents, and emergency countermeasure drugs under the Medicare, Medicaid, and Medicaid medically needy programs; requiring the agency to publish certain information on its website, etc.
Treatment of Chronic and Terminal Illnesses; Providing that chronically and terminally ill patients have the right, with assistance and guidance from their health care providers, to determine their individual courses of treatment; authorizing compounding pharmacies to obtain certain active pharmaceutical ingredients to provide the prescribed course of treatment in such cases, provided the active pharmaceutical ingredients meet specified conditions, etc.
Relief of the Estate of M.N. by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office; Providing for the relief of the Estate of M.N. by the Broward County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation to compensate the estate for injuries sustained by M.N. and her subsequent death as a result of the negligence of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $2,498,259
Property Owner Liability; Citing this act as the "Fallen Tree Act"; providing that a property owner is liable for damages caused by trees or shrubs located on his or her property when they fall on another’s property; providing that trees and shrubs located on two or more parcels may be removed by any of the property owners after serving proper notice and posting on the other parcels; providing an exception, etc.
Minimum Wage Requirements; Providing an exception to the requirement that an employee be paid the state minimum wage; providing that an employer is not subject to certain minimum wage requirements for specified employees; authorizing employees to opt out of the minimum wage requirements in a specified manner; requiring that the parent or guardian of an employee who is younger than 18 years of age sign such waiver on behalf of the employee, etc.
County Officers; Repealing provisions relating to compensation for clerks of the circuit court and county comptrollers, supervisors of elections, and property appraisers, respectively; aligning the compensation of property appraisers, supervisors of elections, clerks of the circuit court, and county comptrollers with the compensation provided to tax collectors; providing that salaries are based on a 5-day workweek and must be prorated in certain circumstances, etc.
Home Inspectors; Revising the examination and disclosure requirements for home inspectors; requiring home inspectors to maintain an errors and omissions insurance policy in a specified amount, etc.
