Housing; Citing this act as the “Real Affordable Housing Relief Act”; deleting provisions prohibiting municipalities, counties, or other entities of local government from adopting or maintaining certain laws relating to rent control; authorizing counties and municipalities to create community land bank programs for a certain purpose; providing requirements for the sale of certain property to land banks; providing conditions for the subsequent resale of property acquired by land banks; requiring the Department of Financial Services to adopt a home resiliency grading scale for a specified purpose; creating the Affordable Housing Construction Loan Program for a certain purpose, etc.
Joint Resolution/Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Proposing amendments to the State Constitution to declare collective responsibility for certain animal life and to revise the composition of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and appointments thereto, etc.
Manatee County Port Authority, Manatee County; Provides that district is independent special district, rather than dependent special district; revises & provides definitions; provides for operation of port authority; provides powers, functions, & duties of port authority; provides for construction & effect.
Liability of Advanced Driving System Manufacturers and Developers; Defining the term “advanced driving system”; providing a limitation on the liability of a manufacturer or developer of an advanced driving system for certain damages, injuries, claims, or losses; authorizing punitive damages only under certain circumstances, etc.
Electronic Payment Processing Fees for Motor Vehicle Purchases; Authorizes holders of retail installment contracts & their agents to collect fees for processing payments made by motor vehicle retail buyers under certain circumstances.
Property Insurance Affiliates ; Requires insurers to provide to OIR documentation demonstrating that financial considerations & payments to affiliates are fair & reasonable; requires office to consider certain factors to determine whether such considerations & payments are fair & reasonable; requires compensation arrangements between insurers & affiliates to be structured as fees for service; requires insurers to submit, & office to review, audited financial statements; requires contracts between insurers & affiliates to contain certain provisions; authorizes office to issue orders restricting fund transfers from insurers to affiliates under certain circumstances; requires affiliates to make certain refunds under certain circumstances; provides authority of office over affiliate dividends; requires affiliates to register with office.
Insurer Disclosures on Prescription Drug Coverage; Requiring individual and group health insurers to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes within a certain timeframe to current and prospective insureds and the insureds’ treating physicians; requiring insurers to maintain a record of formulary changes; defining the term “cost-sharing requirement”; providing an exception to requirements relating to changes in a health maintenance organization’s group contract, etc.
Expenditure of Public Funds by Local Governments; Prohibits local governments from expending public funds for specified purposes; prohibits acceptance of public funds from local governments for lobbying; authorizes filing of complaints with Commission on Ethics alleging violations; requires commission to investigate & provide report of its findings to certain entities; requires commission to adopt rules.
Security of State Information Technology Systems; Requiring state agencies to deploy certain cloud-native cybersecurity platforms; requiring the state chief information officer to brief legislative committees on specified information by a specified date, etc.
Insurance Claims Payments to Health Care Providers; Prohibits payment adjudicators from downcoding health care services under certain circumstances; requires health insurers to ensure that their downcoding policies are updated & to ensure compliance with specified provisions on downcoding; authorizes investigations & actions against noncompliance; provides certain presumption in favor of physicians' determination regarding patients' diagnoses & service orders; provides calculations of interests on health insurers' nonpayment & underpayment due to downcoding; provides causes of action for health care providers; prohibits utilization review entities from implementing new requirements, restrictions, & changes on prior authorizations under certain circumstances; provides requirements for adverse determinations made by such entities on health care providers' claims; revises requirements & timeframes for responses from health insurers & HMOs to submitted claims.
State Economic Development Contracts; Provides short title; defines; requires employer to sign agreement with Department of Commerce before becoming eligible for economic development incentive; specifies provisions of agreement; provides applicability; authorizes persons & entities to report suspected violation to department within specified timeframe; requires department to determine whether violation has occurred; requires department to deliver written notice to Attorney General; requires Attorney General to request certain information from employer alleged to be in violation; requires Attorney General to initiate proceedings to recover funds awarded to employer if employer is found to have violated agreement; provides that department's findings are final; requires department to execute separate written agreement with recipient of economic development incentive before department awards incentive; specifies contents of separate agreement; provides effective periods of separate agreement.
Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to authorize and pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients who are eligible individuals; requiring the agency to seek federal approval and amend contracts as necessary to implement the act; requiring individual health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for eligible individuals, etc.
