Medicaid Presumptive Eligibility For Pregnant Women; Creates pilot program to provide temporary Medicaid coverage to pregnant women who are presumptively eligible for Medicaid; authorizes AHCA to approve certain entities to serve as qualified presumptive eligibility locations; provides application requirements; requires AHCA to prioritize approval of qualified entities located in underserved areas; specifies duties of qualified entities; requires qualified entities to provide written notice of their determinations to applicants within specified timeframe; provides requirements for notice; specifies performance standards for qualified entities; specifies timeframe of presumptive eligibility period for temporary Medicaid coverage; requires AHCA to implement certain procedures that allow for seamless transition from temporary Medicaid coverage to enrollment for full Medicaid benefits; requires AHCA, in collaboration with DOH, to implement outreach program for specified purposes; requires AHCA to seek federal approval to implement pilot program; requires AHCA to implement pilot program within specified timeframe.
Housing; Creates Department of Housing & Tenant Rights; provides requirements for rental agreements; prohibits landlords from requiring prospective tenants to pay certain fees; revises & specifies grounds for termination of rental agreement; authorizes tenants, mobile home owners, mobile home tenants, & mobile home occupants who are defendants in eviction proceedings to file motion with court to have records of such proceedings sealed & to have their names substituted on progress docket; requires landlord to give tenants opportunity to purchase dwelling unit or premises; prohibits landlord from evicting tenant or terminating rental agreement because tenant or tenant's minor child is victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; prohibits purchase of single-family homes for specified purpose; authorizes civil investigations & actions; authorizes award of certain relief; authorizes local governments & special districts to adopt specified impact fee; authorizes municipalities to create community land bank programs; requires certain municipalities to develop & annually adopt community land bank plan; authorizes land banks to buy certain property for less than market value; requires land banks to offer qualified organizations right of first refusal to purchase certain property; provides that rental of certain homestead property does not constitute abandonment; creates Retail-to-residence Tax Credit Program & Affordable Housing Construction Loan Program.
Deceptive and Unfair Trade Acts or Practices; Provides that persons or entities that take specified actions during transaction for sale or lease of goods or services to consumer commit unfair or deceptive act or practice, enforceable pursuant to specified provisions.
Traffic Infraction Enforcement; Provides for enforcement of safety measures at railroad-highway grade crossings through use of railroad traffic infraction detector; provides for enforcement of speed limit in work zone area through use of speed detection system; provides for designation of traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue uniform traffic citations; provides notice requirements; provides penalties; provides for hearings.
Country of Origin for Wild and Farm-Raised Fish; Provides requirements for sale of wild & farm-raised fish originating outside of U.S.; establishes Florida Wild Fish & Seafood Certification Program.
Toll Payments; Exempting certain disabled veterans and persons operating motor vehicles and motorcycles displaying certain license plates from the required payment of tolls for the use of toll facilities, etc.
HB 1297 revises which healthcare providers may electronically transmit prescriptions for specific controlled substances, restricting this method to certain licensed practitioners. It updates the list of allowed prescribers and modifies existing exceptions to these restrictions. The bill directly affects pharmacists and prescribers who handle these specific drug types, requiring them to follow the new e-prescribing rules. Key provisions clarify who can use electronic systems for these drugs and under what circumstances exceptions apply, aiming to standardize the process. This change focuses on administrative and regulatory clarity for electronic prescription transmission.
Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees; Citing this act as the "Deferred Compensation Automatic Enrollment Act'; authorizing the inclusion of an automatic enrollment arrangement in a government employee’s deferred compensation plan; requiring that the automatic enrollment arrangement be established with a default contribution rate; requiring that the automatic enrollment arrangement provide employees the ability to make certain elections regarding contributions; authorizing counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, and constitutional county officers to adopt automatic enrollment arrangements for specified deferred compensation programs, etc.
Traffic Infraction Enforcement; Authorizing counties and municipalities to use railroad traffic infraction detectors for a certain purpose; authorizing the placement or installation of traffic infraction detectors at certain railroad crossings with permission from the railroad owner; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, a county, or a municipality to authorize a traffic infraction enforcement officer to issue a traffic citation for certain violations; requiring a person cited for a certain violation in a work zone area to pay a specified fine in certain circumstances, etc.
Consumers’ Right to Repair Certain Equipment; Creating the "Portable Wireless Device Repair Act"; requiring portable wireless device manufacturers to make certain items available to device owners and independent repair providers; prohibiting certain manufacturers from requiring authorized repair providers to continue purchasing certain information in a proprietary format; providing that a complaint may be filed in circuit court under certain circumstances; requiring original equipment manufacturers of agricultural equipment to make certain diagnostic and repair information available for no charge and in a certain manner to independent repair providers and owners, etc.
Deferred Compensation Plans for Public Employees; Authorizes that certain employees' payable compensation be deducted & contributed to deferred compensation plan through automatic enrollment arrangement unless employee makes certain election; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement be established with default contribution rate; authorizes periodic reenrollment of specified government employees; authorizes periodic resetting of contribution rates for specified government employees; requires that automatic enrollment arrangement provide employees ability to make certain elections regarding contributions; requires that plan provide for default investment into which contributions must be placed under specified circumstance; authorizes counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, & constitutional county officers to adopt automatic enrollment arrangements for specified deferred compensation programs; provides that deferred compensation plan may only include automatic enrollment arrangement upon approval of Legislature; authorizes that certain automatic deferrals be made by payroll deduction; requires that certain deduction of wages or salary of employees be treated in specified manner.
Country of Origin for Wild and Farm-raised Fish; Providing that wild and farm-raised fish are considered misbranded under certain circumstances; requiring the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish the Florida Wild Fish and Seafood Certification Program; requiring all wild fish and seafood products intended to be certified and marketed as Florida wild fish or Florida wild seafood product to meet certain requirements; defining the term “wild or farm-raised fish”; requiring public food service establishments selling wild or farm-raised fish to publish specified information relating to the fish through certain means, etc.
