OGSR/Dependent Eligibility Verification Services; Designating the Department of Management Services, rather than the Division of State Group Insurance, as the entity that contracts for dependent eligibility verification services for the state group insurance program; authorizing the department or the contractor providing dependent eligibility verification services to require certain information from subscribers; revising the types of information that the department or a contractor providing eligibility verification services may require from subscribers in order to establish dependent eligibility for the state group insurance program, etc.
Comprehensive Review Study of the Central and Southern Florida Project; Directs SFWMD to prepare & submit consolidated annual report regarding status of project to EDR, DEP, Governor, & Legislature; provides report requirements.
Implementation of the Constitutional Prohibition Against Lobbying by a Former Justice or Judge; Provides definitions for purpose of implementing s. 13(b), Art. V of State Constitution; provides penalties for violation of constitutional prohibition against lobbying by former justice or judge; provides for collection of such penalties.
Implementation of the Constitutional Prohibition Against Lobbying by a Public Officer; Provides definitions for purpose of implementing s. 8(f), Art. II of State Constitution; provides penalties for violation of constitutional prohibition against lobbying by public officer; provides for collection of such penalties.
Department of Financial Services; Requires DFS to create secure online portal to accept service of process; authorizes specified persons to purchase coverage in state group health insurance plan at specified premium costs; provides functions of Florida Open Financial Statement System; requires local governments to use system to file specified reports; requires hospitals to demonstrate financial responsibility; removes cap on transferring burial rights fees; revises requirements to practice embalming & funeral directing; provides requirements for title agencies & public adjusters; removes provisions relating to duties of AHCA & to the board of Florida Patient’s Compensation Fund; provides fund requirements.
Pub. Rec./Lottery Winners; Creates 90 day public record exemption for names of certain lottery winners & allows such winners to waive exemption.
Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program; Revises use of certain funds from Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund to include construction of certain facilities; requires Manufactured Housing & Mobile Home Mitigation & Enhancement Program to be operated by Gulf Coast State College; removes construction related to Citizens Property Insurance Corporation coverage rates; delays future repeal of Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program; transfers specified powers, duties, functions, records, property, issues, & funds relating to Manufactured Housing & Mobile Home Mitigation & Enhancement Program from Tallahassee Community College to Gulf Coast State College.
Insolvent Insurers; Provides required factors to be used in determination & fixing of rates for premiums paid to insolvent insurers for specified coverages; authorizes insurers to elect not to recoup advance assessments paid to Florida Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated; provides calculations of insurers' assets under specified circumstances; revises provisions relating to payments of assessments & insurers' reconciliation reports to association; requires insurers to pay assessments to association, rather than to collect such assessments; specifies payments that certain insurers must make to association; requires insurers to treat insureds' failure to pay surcharges, rather than recoupment charges, as failure to pay premiums; provides that insurers are liable for surcharges & are not liable for uncollectible surcharges; removes requirement that insurers treat insureds' failure to pay emergency assessments as failure to pay premiums; revises provisions relating to insurers' collection of surcharges & payments of assessments to Florida Workers' Compensation Insurance Guaranty Association, Incorporated.
Money Services Businesses; Provides that control persons of money services businesses, rather than officers, are not liable for loss or damages under certain circumstances; requires licensees to report changes in control persons, rather than in certain other entities or persons; provides that addition of control person, rather than certain other entities or persons, is subject to certain requirements; revises requirements for applications for licensure as money services business.
Building Regulation; Revises provisions of law relating to building regulation including building code or plans examiner eligibility; conditions on provisional certificates; transferability of internship programs; demolition permits for structures; administrative fees; access to certain documents; certificates of occupancy or completion; requests for additional information from building permit applicants; & authorizes civil action.
Property Insurer Reimbursements; Defining the term “unsound insurer”; revising requirements for coverage under the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund of certain policies assumed by authorized insurers or the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, etc.
Fire Investigators; Revising the definition of the term “firefighter” to include full-time, Florida-certified fire investigators for the purpose of expanding eligibility for certain cancer treatment benefits to such investigators; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
