Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care ; Expands mental health crisis services to include the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center; authorizes a guardian advocate to be discharged when a patient is discharged from involuntary outpatient services; requires clinical psychologists who make determinations of involuntary placement at certain mental health facilities to have specified clinical experience; authorizes a designated facility to retain a patient for the remainder of a specified timeframe under certain circumstances.
Aggravating Factors for Capital Felonies; Adds as an aggravating factor that capital felony was committed against head of state, or in an attempt to commit such crime capital felony was committed against another individual.
Health Care During a Declared Emergency; Defining the term “life sustaining medical services”; requiring certain health insurance entities to enact specified policies; authorizing the Office of Insurance Regulation and the Agency for Health Care Administration to issue emergency orders extending the time periods of such policies for specified timeframes, etc.
Nicotine Products; Citing this act as the "Florida Age Gate Act"; providing that applicants for retail tobacco products dealer permits consent to inspection and search without a warrant; authorizing the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco of the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to assess specified fines and certain penalties for each violation involving the sale of a single-use nicotine dispensing device that has not received a marketing granted order under 21 U.S.C. s. 387j or advertising, promoting, or displaying for sale such devices; restricting advertising, promoting, and displaying for sale certain single-use nicotine dispensing devices by retail nicotine products dealers in certain instances, etc.
Warehouse Distribution Centers; Requiring certain employers to establish and administer a safety committee; requiring an employer to provide a specified written description to each employee within a specified time period; requiring an employer to establish, maintain, and preserve specified records on each employee; authorizing certain persons to request specified information from an employer, etc.
First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program; Establishing the First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program within the Department of Education for specified purposes; requiring the department to award scholarships to certain students enrolled in specified schools or programs; authorizing the department to provide grants to certain postsecondary educational institutions or nonprofit organizations to create and implement nontraditional mentoring services or support programs for specified purposes, etc. APPROPRIATION: $10,000,000
Public Records/Criminal Acts that Evidence Prejudice; Requiring the Attorney General, rather than the Governor, through the Department of Law Enforcement, to collect and disseminate specified information; expanding a public records exemption to include the collection and dissemination of data on incidents of criminal acts that evidence prejudice pursuant specified provisions; providing for future review and repeal of the expanded exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Materials Harmful to Minors; Defines "harmful to minors"; revises list of materials used in classroom which are subject to objection process by parents or residents.
Parental Rights; Requires parental consent for minor's treatment for certain diseases; revises informed consent requirements; requires consent from parent or guardian for certain services provided by mobile response team; revises responsibility for cost of substance abuse services, confidentiality requirements, & requirements for voluntary admission for substance abuse impairment services; requires school district to provide parents with specified information before district administers certain questionnaires or forms to students; requires school district to give parent opportunity to opt his or her student out of such questionnaire or form; revises exceptions for certain parental rights; creates parental right to review, inspect, & consent to survey or questionnaire provided to parent's minor child; creates parental right to know certain information about survey or questionnaire at time of consent; creates parental right to consent in writing to use of biofeedback device on parent's minor child; defines "biofeedback device"; requires that results from use of such device be provided to parent; requires that such results be held as confidential medical record; revises exceptions for specified requirements of parental consent.
Vacating Premises After Rental Agreement Termination; Requiring landlords to provide certain tenants a specified amount of time to vacate the premises after delivery of a notice to terminate the rental agreement before bringing a specified action, etc.
Rebuttable Presumption for Certain Deaths; Creating a rebuttable presumption that the death of an alleged victim was the result of a controlled substance under specified circumstances, etc.
Public Records and Public Meetings/Hearings Relating to Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Specifying that all hearings relating to mental health and substance abuse, respectively, are confidential and closed to the public; providing exceptions; exempting certain information from public records requirements; expanding a public records exemption to include certain petitions and applications; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
