Out-of-network Providers; Requires health care practitioner to notify patient in writing upon referring patient to certain providers; provides requirements for such notice; requires certain health insurers to apply payments for services provided by nonpreferred providers toward insureds' deductibles & out-of-pocket maximums if specified conditions are met.
Disclosure of Estimated Ad Valorem Taxes; Defining the terms “listing platform” and “property”; requiring that certain property listings include estimated ad valorem taxes; providing requirements for listing platforms, the Department of Revenue, and property appraisers; providing protection from liability for specified parties who take certain actions, etc.
Official State Bird; Requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to develop and conduct a certain survey; requiring the commission to provide the survey and certain website information to specified persons during a specified timeframe; requiring that the survey include specified bird species; requiring the commission to submit the results of the survey to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
Cyberintimidation by Publication; Requires that specified information has been electronically published without consent in order to constitute violation; removes requirement that an offender intend that person be placed in reasonable fear of bodily harm when making threat or harassing person; increases criminal penalty for violation; creates civil cause of action; requires clear & convincing standard of evidence in such actions.
Solar Facilities; Authorizes county to adopt ordinance requiring that certain solar facilities be properly decommissioned; authorizes county to presume that solar facility has reached end of its useful life; authorizes solar facility owner to rebut presumption in certain manner; authorizes county to require certain financial assurance & certain updates from solar facility owner; authorizes county to take action to complete decommissioning of solar facility; requires county to allow solar facility owner specified amount of time to commence & complete decommissioning before taking such action.
Injunctions for Protection in Cases of Repeat or Serious Violence; Expands grounds for injunction of protection to include serious violence in addition to repeat violence.
Animal Cruelty Offenses; Prohibits engaging in specified acts of animal cruelty in presence of child or causing or enticing child to engage in such acts; increases offense severity ranking of offense of fighting or bating animals.
Practice of Veterinary Medicine; Revising the definition of the term “responsible supervision”; requiring the Board of Veterinary Medicine to adopt rules to regulate the profession and practice of veterinary technology; requiring any person desiring licensure as a veterinary technician or technologist to apply to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to take a licensure examination; authorizing a licensed veterinary technician or licensed veterinary technologist to perform specified veterinary technology services under the responsible supervision of a licensed veterinarian; prohibiting a person from misleading the public that she or he is licensed as a veterinary technician, or veterinary technologist without holding such license, etc.
Motorcycle Specialty License Plates; Requires DHSMV to develop Endless Summer motorcycle specialty license plate; specifies design requirement for plate; requires that number of valid Endless Summer motor vehicle & motorcycle specialty license plates be added together for purposes of certain determination.
Pregnant Women in Custody; Citing this act as "Ava's Law"; requiring that, upon her request, every female arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe; authorizing a sentencing court to stay the beginning of the period of incarceration for up to a certain amount of time for a pregnant woman convicted of any offense; requiring municipal detention facilities and county detention facilities to collect and report to the Department of Corrections, and the department to collect from its own institutions, specified information, etc.
Civil Liability for the Wrongful Death of an Unborn Child; Revising the definition of the term “survivors” to include the parents of an unborn child; defining the term “unborn child”; providing that the Wrongful Death Act does not authorize a wrongful death action against the mother of an unborn child for the death of the child; providing that the act does not authorize a wrongful death action against a health care provider for the death of an unborn child which results from medical care complying with the applicable standard of care; authorizing parents of an unborn child to recover certain damages, etc.
Prohibition of Pyramid Promotional Schemes; Prohibiting a person from establishing, promoting, operating, or participating in a pyramid promotional scheme; requiring the Department of Legal Affairs to issue and serve a complaint and cease and desist order under certain circumstances; prohibiting cease and desist orders from acting as a limitation upon any other action or remedy available; authorizing the court to appoint receivers, etc.
