Retail Sale of Domestic Dogs and Cats; Defining terms; prohibiting pet stores from selling or offering for sale domestic dogs and cats; providing civil penalties, etc.
Ad Valorem Tax Exemption for Nonprofit Homes for the Aged; Revising an eligibility requirement for Florida limited partnerships applying for the exemption, etc.
Biomarker Testing; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for biomarker testing under the state Medicaid program for specified purposes; beginning on a specified date, requiring individual health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for biomarker testing under certain circumstances; requiring insurers and health maintenance organizations, as applicable, to provide a clear, readily accessible, and convenient process on their websites for requesting exceptions to policy or contract terms, as applicable, and for appealing certain adverse utilization review determinations, etc.
Florida School for Competitive Academics; Revising the components of the delivery of public education within the Florida Early Learning-20 education system to include the Florida School for Competitive Academics; providing for the establishment of the Florida School for Competitive Academics; requiring the Auditor General to conduct audits of the school's accounts and records; exempting the school from specified requirements in the Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code, etc.
9/11 Heroes Day; Requiring the Governor to proclaim September 11 of each year as “9/11 Heroes Day”; requiring that the day be observed in public schools and by public exercise; requiring certain middle and high school students to receive specified instruction; requiring the State Board of Education to adopt certain revised social studies standards, etc.
Drones; Requiring governmental agencies that use drones not produced by approved manufacturers to submit by a specified date to the Department of Management Services a comprehensive plan for discontinuing the use of such drones by a specified date; deleting an obsolete provision; requiring all governmental agencies that do not timely submit the required comprehensive plan to discontinue usage of such drones by a specified date, etc.
Special Risk Class Retirement Date; Revising the definition of “normal retirement date”; decreasing the age and years of service needed to reach the normal retirement date for certain members; authorizing certain members of the Special Risk Class to apply to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within a specified time period; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Relief of Maury Hernandez/Department of Corrections; Providing for the relief of Maury Hernandez; providing an appropriation to compensate Maury Hernandez, a former Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputy, for injuries and damages sustained as a consequence of the alleged negligence of the Department of Corrections in the course of his employment; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000
Citizen Volunteer Advisory Committees; Authorizing specified regional citizen volunteer advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; providing that the use of such technology by a member constitutes that member’s presence at the meeting or workshop; requiring that such technology allow all persons to audibly communicate, etc.
Public Records/Florida Employment and Training Services Program; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for specified materials and information received, generated, ascertained, or discovered by Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., while administering the Florida Employment and Training Services Program; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
