Florida Bills

Direct Care Workers; Requiring a licensed home health agency that authorizes a registered nurse to delegate tasks to a certified nursing assistant or a home health aide to ensure that certain requirements are met; requiring home health aides to complete annual inservice training in medication administration and medication error prevention, in addition to existing annual inservice training requirements; creating the Excellence in Home Health Program and the Nurse Registry Excellence Program, respectively, within the agency for a specified purpose; requiring the agency to adopt rules establishing program criteria, etc. APPROPRIATION: $5,789,297

Domestic Violence Services; Revises duties of DCF in relation to domestic violence program; removes duties & functions of Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence with respect to domestic violence; revises requirements of domestic violence centers; removes coalition from capital improvement grant program process.

Law Enforcement Vehicles; Providing that condominium, cooperative, and homeowners’ associations, respectively, may not prohibit a law enforcement officer from parking his or her assigned law enforcement vehicle in certain areas, etc.

Florida Statutes; Adopting the Florida Statutes 2020 and designating the portions thereof that are to constitute the official law of the state, etc.

Florida Statutes; Amending and repealing provisions to conform to the directive of the Legislature in section 9 of chapter 2012-116, Laws of Florida, codified as section 11.242(5)(j), Florida Statutes, to prepare a reviser’s bill to omit all statutes and laws, or parts thereof, which grant duplicative, redundant, or unused rulemaking authority, etc.

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes, etc.

Florida Statutes; Deleting provisions which have become inoperative by noncurrent repeal or expiration and, pursuant to s. 11.242(5)(b) and (i), F.S., may be omitted from the 2020 Florida Statutes only through a reviser’s bill duly enacted by the Legislature, etc.