Statewide Health Care Coverage; Establishing the Task Force on Universal Health Care for Florida for a specified purpose; directing all agencies of state government to assist the task force, including furnishing information and advice deemed necessary by the task force; requiring the task force to make findings and recommendations for the design of the Health Care for All Florida Plan and for the Health Care for All Florida Board to administer the plan; requiring the task force to engage in a public process to solicit public input on certain elements of the plan, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,174,816
Labor Regulations; Revises conditions under which employer may not take retaliatory personnel action against employee; requires employee to provide specified written notice to supervisor or employer; requires employee to provide employer reasonable opportunity to correct activity, policy, or practice; prohibits employee from recovering in specified actions unless employee took certain actions; requires employee to prove that employer's reasons for certain retaliatory personnel action are false; removes option for court to award other compensatory damages; requires, rather than authorizing, court to award attorney fees & costs; precluding certain claims.
Clinical Laboratory Personnel; Requires that applicant that qualifies for licensure provides proof of such compliance & pays required fees be deemed eligible for licensure; provides that applicants for licensure as technologist or technician who meet specified criteria be deemed to have satisfied minimum qualifications for licensure to perform high or moderate complexity testing as technologist or technician, as applicable.
Labor Regulations; Provides that all employee organizations that are certified as bargaining agent, & not just those representing certain employees, may deduct dues & assessments from salaries of certain employees; removes provision requiring certain employee organizations to petition for recertification; provides applicability; requires certain employers to implement outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified departments; specifies requirements for safety program; provides responsibilities for certain employers & employees; provides exceptions; requires specified annual training on heat illness & providing requirements for such training; requires DACS, in conjunction with DOH, to adopt specified rules; requires certain contracting agents to contribute funds to qualified benefit providers for benefit of workers; provides contribution amount; requires such contributions to be made within certain time period; provides requirements for such contributions; provides duties of qualified benefit providers; authorizes qualified benefit provider to use specified percentage of contributions for administrative functions; requires worker to select qualified benefit provider; authorizes worker to change his or her qualified benefit provider annually; requires contracting agents to provide certain information to its workers; provides requirements for organization to become qualified benefit provider; provides cause of action.
Health Insurance Coverage for CAR T-Cell Therapies; Prohibits specified individual health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, & health maintenance contracts from refusing to contract with in-network health care facilities for provision of CAR T-cell therapies; prohibits such policies & contracts from denying coverage for therapies.
Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Initiative ; Requires DOEA to contract for development & implementation of Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Initiative; provides requirements for initiative; provides requirements for type of entity with which DOEA contracts; requires Alzheimer's Disease Advisory Committee to make certain recommendations to DOEA & Legislature annually.
Employee Protections; Prohibiting agencies and independent contractors from taking specified actions against employees for disclosing certain information to the Commission on Ethics; providing that specified provisions protect employees and persons who submit written complaints to the commission or provide information to an investigator during an investigation of a complaint; authorizing certain employees or applicants for employment to file complaints in accordance with specified provisions; providing requirements for administrative procedures created by local governmental authorities, etc.
Employment Rights; Revising the definition of the term “independent contractor”; revising the prohibitions against retaliatory personnel action against an employee by his or her employer; providing that an employee may not recover in an action against an employer for a retaliatory personnel action unless the employee can prove certain claims by clear and convincing evidence; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to award reasonable attorney fees and costs to the prevailing party for retaliatory personnel actions, etc.
Elections; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database for a specified purpose; repealing a provision relating to the Office of Election Crimes and Security; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; revising the information a third-party voter registration organization is required to provide to the Division of Elections of the Department of State, etc.
State Purchasing; Requiring the Department of Management Services to prepare an inventory of all state agency-owned motor vehicles, maintenance facilities, and fuel depots by a specified date; creating the Bulk Vehicle Purchase Pilot Program within the department for a specified purpose; creating the Fleet Operations Management Pilot Program within the department for a specified purpose, etc.
Admission to Practice Law by an Unauthorized Alien; Providing that certain licenses to practice law be revoked on a specified date under certain circumstances, etc.
Preventing the Spread of Avian Influenza; Creates Be Ready Task Force within DOH for specified purpose; provides for membership & meetings of task force; requires task force to develop specified recommendations; providing that task force members are entitled to receive reimbursement for per diem & travel expenses; requires task force to submit report of its recommendations to Governor & Legislature by specified date; provides for dissolution of task force.
