Religious Institutions; Defining the term “religious institution”; providing that an emergency order may not directly or indirectly prohibit religious services or activities; providing an exception under certain circumstances, etc.
Private Property Rights to Prune, Trim, and Remove Trees; Revising conditions under which a local government may not require a notice, application, approval, permit, fee, or mitigation for the pruning, trimming, or removal of a tree on residential property; specifying when a tree poses an unacceptable risk, etc.
Private Provider Inspections of Onsite Sewage Treatment and Disposal Systems; Authorizing private provider inspections of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems under certain conditions; specifying requirements for private providers and onsite sewage treatment and disposal system owners and authorized contractors; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to audit the performance of a specified percentage of such inspections; requiring the department to submit a report to the Legislature reviewing the use of private providers to perform onsite sewage treatment and disposal system inspections by a specified date, etc.
Inventories of Critical Wetlands; Requiring each water management district governing board, in cooperation with local governments, to develop a list of critical wetlands for acquisition using funds from the Land Acquisition Trust Fund; requiring the governing boards to consider certain criteria when including wetlands on the list and to notify owners of property contemplated to be included on the list; requiring owners who wish to have their property removed from the list to submit a certified letter requesting removal; requiring a governing board to approve such removal if the request meets those requirements, etc.
Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Program; Requiring, rather than authorizing, that the reimbursement method for provider service networks be on a prepaid basis; deleting a requirement that the Agency for Health Care Administration provide the opportunity for public feedback on a certain waiver application; revising requirements relating to the databook published by the agency consisting of Medicaid utilization and spending data; deleting procedures for plan procurements when no provider service networks submit bids; providing that cancer hospitals meeting certain criteria are statewide essential providers, etc.
Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.
Unidentified Persons in Hospitals; Requiring hospitals to maintain a directory of unidentified persons containing specified information; requiring hospitals to make the directory available to the public upon request; requiring hospitals, before including an unidentified person in the directory, to inform the unidentified person of the directory and provide him or her with an opportunity to restrict or prohibit inclusion in the directory or disclosure of his or her personal identifying information, etc.
Tax Collector Budgets; Revising the annual deadline by which a tax collector must submit a budget to the Department of Revenue for approval; authorizing boards of county commissioners to submit feedback to the department within a specified timeframe; requiring the department to take into account such feedback; requiring the department to respond in writing to feedback from boards of county commissioners, etc.
Veterinary Telehealth; Citing this act as the “Providing Equity in Telemedicine Services (PETS) Act”; defining the term “telemedicine”; authorizing veterinarians to practice telemedicine; requiring veterinarians using telemedicine to establish a veterinarian/client/patient relationship and meet certain professional standards; authorizing employees, agents, or contractors of animal control authorities to administer rabies vaccinations under certain circumstances; providing that a supervising veterinarian assumes responsibility for any person vaccinating animals at the supervising veterinarian’s discretion or under his or her supervision, etc.
Community-based Care Lead Agency Expenditures; Specifying a total compensation limit from state-appropriated funds for certain employees of community-based care lead agencies; revising persons to whom the limit applies; requiring the Department of Children and Families to include a certain provision in contracts with a community-based care lead agency; revising persons of whom the department must publish certain compensation information, etc.
