Sen. Aaron Bean

Civil Damages for Care in Community Residential Group Home Facilities; Providing that certain licensed community residential group homes and certain licensed persons and providers who provide services to medically dependent or technologically dependent children may not be held liable for civil damages for medical care or treatment under certain circumstances, etc.

Scott Rivkees, Rita M. Smith, and Statlab Mobile; Expressing the appreciation of the Florida Senate and all Floridians for the dedicated service of State Health Officer and Surgeon General Scott Rivkees, M.D., Department of Health Nursing Services Director Rita M. Smith, and Florida’s testing partner, Statlab Mobile, during the COVID-19 pandemic, etc.

Domestic Violence; Adding nonresidential outreach services to the list of services certified domestic violence centers must provide; revising the program content requirements for batterers’ intervention programs; requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify and monitor batterers’ intervention programs, etc.

Medicaid; Deleting a requirement for the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the operation of the pharmaceutical expense assistance program; revising the method for determining prescribed drug provider reimbursements; requiring the agency to establish certain procedures related to prior authorization requests rather than prior consultation requests; revising the definitions of the terms “medical necessity” and “medically necessary” to provide an exception for behavior analysis services determinations, etc.

Required Health Education Instruction; Providing additional requirements for health education; revising the grade levels when students receive certain health education instruction; requiring such education to include an awareness of the benefits of sexual abstinence as the expected standard and the consequences of teenage pregnancy, etc.

Department of Economic Opportunity; Renaming the executive director of the Department of Economic Opportunity as the Secretary of Economic Opportunity; revising the application process and funding for development grants awarded by the department to local governments; requiring the department to implement an integrated, modular system hosted in a cloud service, rather than an integrated Internet-based system, for the reemployment assistance program; revising the timeline for employers’ responses to notices of benefits claims sent by the department, etc.

Attorney Compensation; Requiring an attorney representing a personal representative in an estate administration who intends to charge a certain fee to make specified written disclosures; prohibiting an attorney who does not make such disclosures from being paid for legal services except in certain circumstances; requiring an attorney representing a trustee in the initial administration of a trust who intends to charge a certain fee to make specified written disclosures; providing that the complexity of a trust may be considered when determining what is an extraordinary service, etc.

Personal Care Attendants; Authorizing nursing home facilities to employ personal care attendants if they are participating in a certain training program developed by the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Board of Nursing; providing limitations on such personal care attendants’ practice; requiring the agency to authorize the continuation of certain personal care attendant programs under certain circumstances; authorizing certain persons to be employed by a nursing home facility as personal care attendants for a specified period if a certain training requirement is met, etc.

Privileged Communications Made to Crime Stoppers Organizations; Prohibiting a person from knowingly and willfully attempting to obtain, obtaining, or disclosing a privileged communication or protected information; providing a penalty; providing an exemption from criminal liability for employees, board members, or volunteers of a crime stoppers organization in certain circumstances; providing immunity from civil liability for certain actions by specified persons concerning privileged communications; limiting the uses of privileged communications or evidence of such communications, etc.

Florida Healthy Kids Corporation; Recognizing the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Florida Healthy Kids Corporation, etc.