Economic Development; Revising the responsibilities of divisions within the Department of Economic Opportunity; specifying that the concept of building the professional capacity of a regional economic development organization includes the hiring of professional staff to perform specified services; revising the maximum percentage of total infrastructure project costs for which the department may award grants; replacing CareerSource Florida, Inc., with the state board or the department in provisions relating to the implementation of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, etc.
Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights; Authorizing certain intercollegiate athletes to earn compensation for the use of their names, images, or likenesses; prohibiting a postsecondary educational institution and other entities, institutions, and their employees from compensating intercollegiate athletes or prospective intercollegiate athletes for the use of their names, images, or likenesses; prohibiting the revocation or reduction of certain aid as a result of intercollegiate athletes earning certain compensation or obtaining specified representation; providing requirements for certain athlete agents, etc.
Adoption Benefits; Provides eligibility to certain veterans & servicemembers for specified adoption benefits.
Nonopioid Alternatives; Revises requirement for certain health care practitioners to inform patient or patient's representative of nonopioid alternatives before prescribing or ordering an opioid drug.
County Boundaries; Revising county boundaries, etc.
Elder Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing a state attorney, or his or her designee, to initiate an elder abuse fatality review team in his or her judicial circuit; authorizing elder abuse fatality review teams in existence on a certain date to continue to exist; requiring each review team to annually submit to the department a summary report containing specified information by a certain date; providing immunity from monetary liability for review team members under certain conditions, etc.
Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Information Technology Security Information; Provides exemptions from public records requirements for portions of records held by state agency that contain network schematics, hardware & software configurations, & encryption & certain recordings & transcripts; provides exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of meetings that would reveal such records; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides public necessity statement & for retroactive application of exemptions.
Disability Retirement Benefits; Allowing members receiving care at federal Veterans Health Administration facilities to use certification by a specified number of physicians working at such facilities as proof of total and permanent disability for purposes of establishing eligibility for benefits, etc.
Sale of Surplus State-owned Office Buildings and Associated Nonconservation Lands; Revising the purpose of the Architects Incidental Trust Fund; requiring funds relating to the sale of surplus state-owned office buildings and associated nonconservation lands to be used for certain purposes; revising the entities that the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund must offer a lease to before offering certain surplus lands for sale to other specified entities, etc.
Broadband Internet Service; Authorizes certain funds within State Transportation Trust Fund to be used for certain broadband infrastructure projects within or adjacent to multiuse corridors; requires DOT to give priority to certain projects; designates DEO as lead state agency to facilitate expansion of broadband Internet service; requires DEO to work with certain entities; creates Florida Office of Broadband in DEO; provides purpose & duties of office.
Community Affairs; Authorizing a board of county commissioners to approve development of affordable housing on any parcel zoned for residential, commercial, or industrial use; amending the Florida Interlocal Cooperation Act of 1969 to authorize private entities to enter into specified loan agreements; revising the information required to be annually submitted by municipal budget officers to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; renaming the Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot Program as the Community Workforce Housing Loan Program to provide workforce housing for persons affected by the high cost of housing, etc.
Prescription Drug Donation Repository Program; Creates Prescription Drug Donation Repository Program within DOH; provides criteria & conditions for donation of prescription drugs & supplies from certain authorized entities for dispensing to eligible patients; authorizes Governor to waive program patient eligibility requirements during declared state of emergency.
