Patient Referrals by Medicaid Managed Care Organizations and Managed Care Plans; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct or cause to be conducted reviews, investigations, analyses, audits, and combinations thereof to determine if managed care organizations, managed care plans, and their subcontractors violate the Medicaid program integrity in their patient referrals; providing penalties, etc.
Siblings Placed in Out-of-home Care; Providing for the importance of visitation, and not just contact, between siblings who have been separated; requiring the court to hold a hearing, take evidence, and hear arguments if a motion for sibling visitation or contact is contested; providing that a court retains jurisdiction over a dependent child in a permanent guardianship for certain purposes relating to sibling visitation or contact, etc.
Property Insurance Claims; Establishing a mandatory procedure for resolution of disputed insurance claims; requiring insurers, at specified times, to notify policyholders of the mandatory procedure; authorizing a policyholder to file with the Division of Administrative Hearings a petition to resolve claims; requiring the administrative law judge to make a final determination of total coverage within a specified timeframe, etc.
SB 1234 repeals the current state law that prohibits bump-fire stocks. If enacted, this bill would remove the existing ban on manufacturing, selling, and possessing these devices within the state. This means individuals would no longer be restricted by state law from owning or acquiring bump-fire stocks.
Assault or Battery of Contractors Performing State Functions; Providing for the reclassification of certain offenses committed against contractors performing state functions while engaged in the performance of their duties, etc.
Property Tax Exemption and Assessment Limitation on Long-term Leased Property; Providing that property that receives a certain tax exemption shall be assessed in a specified manner; providing that changes, additions, and improvements to such properties shall be assessed in a specified manner; requiring the submission of an application containing specified information before receiving a specified tax exemption; providing specified tax exemptions for property that meets certain eligibility requirements, etc.
Reproductive Health Rights; Creating the "Protect Reproductive Options Act"; providing that every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about the individual’s own reproductive health; providing that individuals who become pregnant have a fundamental right to make certain decisions in exercise of such right, etc.
Public Postsecondary Education; Requiring the State Board of Education to ensure that Florida College System institutions are free from undue government influence and interference; requiring the Board of Governors to ensure that state universities are free from undue government influence and interference; deleting a provision prohibiting the Board of Governors from shielding students, faculty, and staff from free speech protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Article I of the State Constitution, or a specified law, etc.
Solar Facilities; Defining the terms “agricultural land” and “decommissioned”; authorizing a county to adopt an ordinance requiring that certain solar facilities be properly decommissioned under certain circumstances; deleting a provision providing that a solar facility is a permitted use in certain land use categories and zoning districts and is subject to compliance with certain requirements; deleting a provision exempting solar facility substations from the electric substations for which local governments may adopt and enforce certain land development regulations, etc.
Transportation Concurrency; Revising facilities required to be identified in the capital improvements element of a comprehensive plan that imposes transportation concurrency, etc.
Evidence of Damages to Prove Medical Expenses in Personal Injury or Wrongful Death Actions; Providing evidence that is admissible to demonstrate past and future medical expenses in personal injury and wrongful death actions, etc.
Education on Abusive Head Trauma; Requiring the Department of Health to adopt evidence-based parent education materials that describe the dangers of abusive head trauma, including shaken baby syndrome; requiring the department to implement a multi-year phase-in plan for the distribution of the parent education materials, etc.
