Patient-directed Medical Orders; Revising legislative findings and intent to include palliative care for progressive illnesses; providing a purpose and requirements for a patient-directed medical order; requiring that certain health care services be provided to the principal regardless of the decision to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures; authorizing physicians, physician assistants, and certain advanced practice registered nurses to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures under certain circumstances without penalty, etc.
Florida Employee Health Choices Program; Renaming the Florida Health Choices Program as the “Florida Employee Health Choices Program”; revising eligibility and participation requirements for vendors under the program; revising the types of health insurance products that are available for purchase through the program; deleting certain pricing transparency requirements to conform to changes made by the act, etc.
Candidate Qualifying; Authorizing a candidate to pay the filing fee by a debit card linked to the candidate’s campaign account; providing for standing for challenges to a candidate’s qualification for nomination or election to office; providing procedures and requirements regarding such challenges, etc.
Specialty License Plates/K9s for Warriors; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a K9s for Warriors license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.
Ownership Interests of Licensed Alcoholic Beverage Vendors; Authorizes vendors licensed to sell alcoholic beverages at retail to have ownership interest in production of such beverages in certain instances.
Mathematics Instruction; Revising rules for teacher preparation programs to include a minimum of 85 instructional hours in specified content in mathematics; revising requirements for certificate programs from educator preparation institutes to include specified content in mathematics; revising the criteria that instructional materials reviewers use to evaluate mathematics instructional materials, etc.
Opticianry; Removes ability of optician to delegate specified acts to unlicensed supportive personnel; removes exception to optician licensure requirements for employees working under direct supervision of physician or optometrist.
Prosecuting Children as Adults; Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing to determine whether the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting provisions requiring a state attorney to request a court to transfer and certify a child for prosecution as an adult or to provide written reasons to the court for not making such request, or to proceed under a specified provision; requiring a court to advise a child and his or her parent or legal guardian of the child’s right to a due process evidentiary hearing before a judge upon the filing by a state attorney of an information transferring the child to adult court, etc.
Acupuncture; Revises licensure requirements; provides applicability; exempts certain persons from certain regulations governing practice of acupuncture.
Building Inspections; Revising the Florida Building Code edition for energy conservation for a building’s or a dwelling unit’s maximum tested air leakage measure; revising an exception, etc.
Term Limits for State Representatives and Senators; Proposes amendment of State Constitution to revise term limits applicable to state representatives & state senators.
Trust Fund Interest for Purposes Approved by the Supreme Court; Authorizing financial institutions to hold funds in specified trust accounts to be used for specified purposes; requiring such financial institutions to pay a certain minimum interest rate or dividend; requiring that the interest rate be a specified percentage; requiring a financial institution to submit a quarterly rate validation sheet and affidavit to the Chief Financial Officer attesting that it will pay a minimum certain interest rate or dividend; requiring that the affidavit attest that certain information is true and factual, etc.
