First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship and Grant Program; Establishes First in Your Family Florida Medical School Scholarship & Grant Program within DOE for specified purposes; provides requirements for such program.
Retirement Credit for Military Service; Revises initial date of employment for members who have military service & may receive creditable military service; requires DMS to adopt specified rules; revises definition of term "veteran" to include more recent periods of wartime service.
Office Surgery Standards of Practice; Citing this act as "Hillary's Law"; prohibiting physicians from performing level II or level III surgeries on immediate family members in an office surgery setting, with exceptions; specifying requirements for health care professionals performing duties at a registered office which require licensure or certification; requiring office surgeries to report adverse incidents to the Department of Health within a specified timeframe, etc.
Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likenesses; Requiring that certain articles or broadcasts be removed from any website over which the newspaper, broadcaster, or periodical has control within a specified period to limit damages for defamation; providing persons in certain positions relating to newspapers with immunity for defamation if such persons exercise due care to prevent publication or utterance of such a statement; declaring that the continued appearance on any website over which the newspaper, broadcaster, or periodical has control of a published statement determined to be false is deemed to be a new publication of the false statement for certain purposes and that the owner, licensee, or operator is not entitled to a certain privilege, etc.
Ballot Boxes; Requiring that ballot boxes or ballot transfer containers be transported from a supervisor of elections to a precinct by a law enforcement officer; requiring that all ballot boxes, ballots, ballot stubs, memoranda, and other related papers be transported to a supervisor’s office by a law enforcement officer; requiring that certain policies and procedures include general guidelines for the recording and the proper storage, retention, and release of body camera audio and video data recorded by body cameras while performing specified actions, etc.
Foster Care Payments; Authorizing certain payments to relatives or nonrelatives who have a child placed with them in out-of-home care and who obtain a child-specific level I foster license within a specified timeframe; making technical changes, etc.
Exceptions to the Limitation on Termination of Pregnancies; Revises definition of term "fatal fetal abnormality"; provides that one physician, rather than two physicians, must make specified medical determinations for purposes of specified medical exceptions to limitation on termination of pregnancies; revises criteria of specified medical exception.
Forwarding Agents; Defining the term “electronic database”; providing that an applicant may not be required to submit an application to register as a dealer under certain circumstances; requiring the forwarding agent to surrender its certificate to the Department of Revenue under certain circumstances, etc.
Licenses for Marijuana for Personal Use; Beginning on a specified date, requiring the Department of Health to authorize medical marijuana treatment centers (MMTCs) to operate as marijuana cultivators, processors, distributors, and retailers; requiring the department to issue a specified number of marijuana cultivator, processor, distributor, and retailer licenses on specified dates; specifying application requirements for such licensure; specifying requirements for change of ownership for marijuana licenses, etc.
Local Government Assessments; Removes special assessments as source of funding for certain municipal facilities & services; removes ability of legislative & governing body of county to levy & collect special assessments; removes special assessments as mechanism to finance services or programs rendered specially for benefit of property or residents in unincorporated areas; requires certain ordinances or land development regulations to provide for reimbursement by local government; makes local government responsible for payment of fees or taxes assessed for conservation easements for certain land development projects.
Qualifying Medical Conditions for Medical Use of Marijuana; Revising the list of qualifying medical conditions for the medical use of marijuana to include an addiction to or dependence on an opioid drug, etc.
Underground Utility and Excavation Contractors ; Revises & provides definition of "underground utility & excavation contractor"; & revises definition of "Contractor V."
