Relief of Jose Correa by Miami-Dade County; Providing for the relief of Jose Correa by Miami-Dade County; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. Correa for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of Miami-Dade County; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and certain fees, etc. CLAIM: $4,100,000

Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez
Sponsored bills
Naturopathic Medicine; Creating the Board of Naturopathic Medicine within the Department of Health; prohibiting unlicensed persons from practicing naturopathic medicine or promoting, identifying, or describing themselves using specified titles or abbreviations; providing for licensure by examination of naturopathic doctors; providing for licensure by endorsement of naturopathic doctors; revising continuing education requirements for naturopathic doctors, etc.
Florida Virtual School; Deleting provisions relating to the Florida Virtual School giving priority to certain students; providing that the board of trustees may use supplemental funding sources to develop a state-of-the-art technology-based education delivery system; authorizing the Florida Virtual School to accrue supplemental revenue from direct-support organizations; revising which entities review and approve expenditures, etc.
Specialty License Plates; Requiring certain organizations that have an approved specialty license plate to submit within a specified timeframe certain financial information to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; prohibiting specialty license plate annual use fees or interest earned from such fees from being distributed to certain entities; requiring the department to develop an Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; revising provisions relating to the issuance and fee distribution for Fraternal Order of Police license plates; directing the department to develop specified specialty license plates, etc.
Rural Electric Cooperatives; Prohibiting a cooperative that sells electricity at retail from adopting, enacting, or enforcing a fee meeting specified criteria, etc.
Condominium Lending Guidelines; Urging the alignment of condominium lending guidelines among all states and eliminating the disproportionate down payment requirements that uniquely burden Florida homeowners, etc.
Local Business Tax Receipts; Requiring persons applying for or renewing a local business tax receipt to practice or engage in or manage any business or occupation that conducts certain transactions to exhibit an active license or authorization from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury, etc.
Medical Debt; Defining the terms “medical debt collector” and “medical debt creditor”; prohibiting medical debt creditors and medical debt collectors from engaging in specified activities to collect medical debt; specifying limitations on the amount of interest a debtor may be charged for medical debt; providing that certain debtors may not be charged any interest or late fees on their medical debt, etc.
Neurofibromatosis Research Grants; Creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the Department of Health; providing the purpose of the program; allowing certain grant proposals to receive preference in the awarding of grants; requiring the department to award grants after consulting with the Rare Disease Advisory Council; prohibiting members of the council or peer review panels from participating in discussions or decisions if there are certain conflicts of interest, etc.
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice; Requiring the reclassification of the penalty for a crime if the commission of the crime evidences prejudice based on the victim being a disabled adult; defining the term “disabled adult”, etc.