Community Planning; Providing requirements for establishing a quorum for meetings of certain councils when a voting member appears via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication; requiring the member to give notice of intent to appear via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication by a specified time; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to give a preference to certain counties and municipalities when selecting applications for funding for technical assistance, etc.
Patient Safety Culture Surveys; Requires licensed facilities to biennially conduct anonymous patient safety culture survey using applicable federal publication; requires facilities to biennially submit such survey to AHCA; requires agency to collect, compile, & publish survey data; revises requirements for submission of health care data to agency; provides appropriations. APPROPRIATION: $161,647
Public Procurement of Services; Revises maximum dollar amount for continuing contracts for construction projects; revises term "continuing contract" to increase certain maximum dollar amounts for professional architectural, engineering, landscape architectural, & surveying & mapping services.
Public Nuisances; Authorizes sheriffs to sue to enjoin alleged nuisances; revises notice requirements for filing of temporary injunctions relating to enjoinment of nuisances; extends time period of notice before lien may attach to real estate; declares use of location by certain persons is public nuisance; declares that any place or premises that has been used on more than two occasions during certain time period as site of specified violations is nuisance; provides opportunity to remedy nuisance; prohibits rental property from being abated or subject to forfeiture.
Child Welfare; Requires certain training for judges; authorizes & provides requirements for early childhood court programs; authorizes DCF to file petitions; requires court to consider specified factors when determining change of legal custody or placement; revises & provides requirements for case plans; provides requirements for court jurisdiction, information disclosure, & caregiver recommendations; provides timeframes for certain studies & licensing; provides requirements & processes for adoption of certain children; provides responsibilities for foster parents, birth or legal parents, DCF, & community-based care lead agency; requires employees of residential group homes to meet specified requirements; authorizes community-based care lead agency to provide more than 35 percent of all child welfare services under certain conditions.
Infrastructure Regulation; Providing term limits for the Public Counsel; revising and providing noncriminal violations relating to the transportation of certain hazardous materials; authorizing the State Fire Marshal or his or her agents to issue certain citations; requiring certain persons to transmit an incident report to the State Fire Marshal; requiring Sunshine State One-Call of Florida, Inc., to review certain reports and complaints, etc.
Health Regulation; Revising the purpose of patient care networks from serving patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome to serving those with human immunodeficiency virus; requiring the Department of Health to develop strategies to maximize federal-state partnerships that provide incentives for physicians to practice in medically underserved or rural areas; revising term limits for Tier 3 cancer center designations within the Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers Program; requiring dentists and certified registered dental hygienists to report in writing certain adverse incidents to the department within a specified timeframe, etc.
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; Revising application of agricultural load securing requirements; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt rules specifying requirements for agents to administer certain competency examinations and establishing a competency examination for a license to engage in activities solely related to the service and repair of recreational vehicles; extending the scheduled expiration for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' use of funds from the Pest Control Trust Fund for certain duties of the department; directing the Florida Forest Service to develop a training curriculum for wildland firefighters; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to revoke an aquaculture certificate of registration under certain conditions, etc.
Repeal of Advisory Bodies and Programs; Repealing chapters 2003-287 and 2006-43, Laws of Florida, relating to the membership, powers, and duties of the Citrus/Hernando Waterways Restoration Council; deleting the advisory council for the My Safe Florida Home Program; removing the ad hoc committee that nominates persons for designation as Great Floridian; deleting the Trap Certificate Technical Advisory and Appeals Board; deleting the advisory board to support specific online degree programs at preeminent state research universities, etc.
Rental Agreements; Repealing a provision relating to the termination of a rental agreement upon foreclosure; creating the "Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act"; providing for the assumption of interest in certain foreclosures on dwellings or residential real property; requiring the director of the Division of Consumer Services of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to notify the Division of Law Revision of the repeal of the Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act of 2009 within a specified timeframe, etc.
Inmate Welfare Trust Funds; Requiring that certain amounts in inmate trust fund accounts be deposited into the trust fund; requiring that specified proceeds and funds be deposited into the State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; providing that the trust fund is a trust held by the Department of Corrections for the benefit and welfare of certain inmates; requiring that funds of the trust fund be used exclusively for specified purposes at correctional facilities operated by the department; requiring that certain prisoner earnings are deposited into the trust fund, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,500,000
State-administered Retirement Systems; Revises required employer retirement contribution rates for each membership class & subclass of FRS; provides declaration of important state interest.
