Deregulation of Professions and Occupations; Requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to waive the requirement to pass the Commercial Driver License Skills Tests for certain servicemembers and veterans; specifying that the failure to repay certain student loans is not considered a failure to perform a statutory or legal obligation for which certain disciplinary action can be taken; deleting the requirement that the Florida State Boxing Commission adopt rules relating to a knockdown timekeeper; revising the membership and qualifications of the Florida Building Commission, etc.
Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish performance metrics; requiring sheriffs providing certain services to adopt the child welfare practice model; requiring the department to establish an Office of Quality; adding responsibilities to the department of contracts regarding care for children in the child welfare system; requiring the Florida Institute for Child Welfare and the Florida State University College of Social Work to design and implement a specified curriculum, etc.
Abortion; Reclassifying the criminal offense for a specified violation; prohibiting physicians from performing or inducing the termination of the pregnancy of a minor unless specified requirements are satisfied; requiring a physician to obtain written consent from a minor’s parent or legal guardian before performing or inducing a termination of the pregnancy of a minor; providing exceptions to such consent requirement; providing criminal penalties for physicians, etc.
Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, certain recommendations relating to the transfer of the Onsite Sewage Program; directing water management districts to submit consolidated annual reports to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; removing provisions requiring certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research projects to be approved by a Department of Health technical review and advisory panel, etc.
PACE Center for Girls; Authorizing the Department of Juvenile Justice to contract with the PACE Center for Girls for specified services, etc.
Senior Management Service Class; Providing that participation in the Senior Management Service Class of the Florida Retirement System is compulsory for each appointed criminal conflict and civil regional counsel and specified staff of the regional counsel beginning on a specified date; authorizing members of the class to purchase and upgrade certain retirement credit, etc.
Aquatic Preserves; Creates Nature Coast Aquatic Preserve; designates preserve for inclusion in aquatic preserve system & as Outstanding Florida Water; describes boundaries of preserve.
Transfer of Tax Exemption for Veterans; Provides that certain veterans & their surviving spouses receiving homestead tax exemption may apply for & receive prorated refund of property taxes paid on new homestead property acquired during certain timeframe; requires property appraiser to immediately make certain entries upon tax rolls to allow prorated refund.
Automated Pharmacy Systems; Authorizes community pharmacy to use automated pharmacy system; provides certain medicinal drugs stored in automated pharmacy system for outpatient dispensing are part of inventory of pharmacy providing services through such system; requires community pharmacies to adopt policies & procedures.
Physical Therapy Practice; Revising the powers and duties of the Board of Physical Therapy Practice; requiring the board to establish minimum standards of practice for the performance of dry needling, and additional supervision and training requirements for the performance of dry needling of specified areas, by physical therapists, etc.
Emergency Sheltering of Persons with Pets; Requires DOE to assist DEM in determining strategies regarding evacuation of persons with pets; requires certain counties to designate shelter that can accommodate persons with pets; specifies requirements for such shelters.
Amusement Rides; Provides & revises requirements related to amusement rides, including amusement ride managers, permanent amusement ride annual permits, temporary amusement ride permits, testing of amusement rides, exemptions from safety standards, inspection standards, & compliance certifications; revises standards for rules adopted by DACS relating to amusement rides; provides procedures for introduction & examination of witnesses & evidence in examinations & investigations conducted by DACS; revises civil penalties.
