Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revising provisions relating to the voluntary admission of minors to a facility for examination and treatment; requiring that a minor’s assent to voluntary care be verified through a clinical review; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for involuntary treatment to take certain actions; requiring law enforcement officers transporting individuals for certain treatment to take certain actions, etc.
Private Instructional Personnel Providing Applied Behavior Analysis Services; Revises definition of "private instructional personnel" to include certain registered behavior technicians; requires such technicians to meet specified requirements.
Campaign Financing; Providing applicability of a limitation on certain political contributions; providing that a foreign national may not make or offer to make certain contributions or expenditures; revising limitations on the use or acceptance of public funds for certain political advertisements or communications by a local government or a person acting on behalf of a local government, etc.
Treatment of Defendants Adjudicated Incompetent to Stand Trial; Revises definition of term "forensic facility."
Benchmark Replacements for London Interbank Offered Rate; Requires recommended benchmark replacements selected or recommended by specified persons be benchmark replacements on United States dollar London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) replacement date for contracts, securities, & instruments; requires fallback provisions in contracts, securities, & instruments providing specified benchmark replacements be disregarded & void; authorizes specified persons to select benchmark replacements; requires benchmark replacement conforming changes to become integral part of contracts, securities, & instruments; provides person is not liable for damages & is not subject to claims & requests for equitable relief under certain circumstances.
Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to establish the pilot program; requiring pilot program participants to receive certain training; requiring the department to contract with an organization to develop the curriculum for such training; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature by a specified date, etc. APPROPRIATION: $500,000
Emergency Medical Care and Treatment to Minors Without Parental Consent; Removes requirement that emergency medical care or treatment to minor without parental consent be administered in hospital or college health service.
Managed Care Plan Performance; Requires managed care plans to collect & report specified measures beginning with certain data reporting period; requires plans to stratify reported measures by specified categories beginning with certain data reporting period; requires plan's performance to be published on its website in specified manner; requires AHCA to use measures to monitor plan performance.
Child Welfare Placements; Authorizes DCF to place children in its custody in therapeutic group homes for residential mental health treatment without prior court approval; defines "therapeutic group home"; provides that DCF, rather than AHCA, shall appoint qualified evaluators to conduct suitability assessments of certain children in department's custody; specifies qualifications for evaluators conducting suitability assessments for placement in therapeutic group home; revises requirements for suitability assessments; specifies when DCF must provide copy of assessment to guardian ad litem & court; removes department's & agency's rulemaking authority; revises definition of term "special needs child".
Clinical Laboratory Testing; Exempting registered nurses from clinical laboratory personnel licensure requirements under certain circumstances, etc.
Children with Developmental Delays; Revising the definition of the term “exceptional student” to include additional students with developmental delays, etc.
Direct-support Organization for the Florida Prepaid College Board; Removing the scheduled repeal of the Florida Prepaid College Board’s authority to establish a direct-support organization, etc.
