Medicaid Enrollment for Permanently Disabled Individuals; Requiring that certain persons who receive specified Medicaid-covered services and who are permanently disabled be presumed eligible for continued Medicaid coverage during redetermination processes; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to continue to make payments for such services; requiring certain persons to notify the agency and the Department of Children and Families of certain changes in disability or economic status; requiring the agency to seek federal authorization to exempt certain persons from annual redetermination of eligibility, etc.
SB 1784 authorizes Florida municipalities to use revenue generated from operating their central sewage systems to fund expansions of those systems. The bill amends Section 180.03 of Florida Statutes to explicitly permit this use of existing operational funds for system growth. This change directly affects local governments managing public sewer infrastructure by providing a new funding mechanism for expansion projects. The bill was scheduled to take effect July 1, 2025, but was indefinitely postponed and later died in committee.
Study on the Elimination of Property Taxes; Requiring the Office of Economic and Demographic Research to conduct a specified study; requiring the office to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
Special Observances/Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day; Designating August 21 of each year as “Fentanyl Awareness and Education Day”; encouraging specified agencies, local governments, and public schools to sponsor events to promote awareness of the dangers of fentanyl and potential overdoses, including education on specified topics, etc.
Alternative Plans Review and Inspections; Requiring that a notice of private inspection services specify whether any scheduled inspection by a private provider will be conducted virtually or in person; authorizing a private provider to use an automated or software-based plans review system designed to make specific determinations; requiring the local building official to issue the requested permit or provide written notice of noncompliance within a specified timeframe for permits related to single-trade plans reviews for single-family or two-family dwellings, etc.
Cardiac Emergencies; Revising a requirement for instruction on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of an automated external defibrillator; requiring each public school to develop a cardiac emergency response plan (CERP); requiring school officials to work with local emergency service providers to integrate the CERP into emergency responder protocols; providing a requirement for automated external defibrillator placement, etc.
Taxation; Revises provisions relating to taxation including use & distribution of tax revenues, sales tax rates, tourist development tax, surtaxes, tax exemptions, objections to assessments, determination of ownership, fuel taxes, forwarding agents, Internal Revenue Code, charitable trusts, forms, cardroom taxes, & assessments.
Impact Fees; Defining the term “plan-based methodology”; requiring the completion of a demonstrated-need study using plan-based methodology before the adoption of an impact fee increase which expressly demonstrates certain extraordinary circumstances; prohibiting increases in certain impact fees unless specified extraordinary circumstances are demonstrated, etc.
Certificates of Completion; Provides that only students with disabilities may earn certificate of completion; revises learning opportunities available to certain students.
Education; Requiring that certain internships be included in counseling materials and presented with certain courses; revising the requirements of a certain strategic 3-year plan to include the Florida Gold Seal CAPE Scholars award; prohibiting the inclusion of the transportation access fee in the calculation of Florida Gold Seal CAPE Scholars awards, etc.
Thoroughbred Permitholders; Requiring certain thoroughbred permitholders to conduct a full schedule of live racing until such permitholders provide notice to the Florida Gaming Control Commission with certain information; revising the criteria for certain thoroughbred permitholders to pay the tax on handle for intertrack wagering; deleting certain criteria a thoroughbred permitholder must meet as part of its pari-mutuel annual license application in order to have its cardroom license renewed, etc.
Land Use and Development Regulations; Prohibiting a county from requiring an applicant to take certain actions as a condition of processing a development permit or development order; deleting language authorizing the owner of an agricultural enclave to apply for a comprehensive plan amendment; revising the expedited state review process for the adoption of comprehensive plan amendments; requiring an approving agency to administer plat submittals and take specified actions within a certain timeframe; providing requirements for certain recreational covenants recorded on or after a certain date, etc.
