Designation of Brevard Barrier Island Area as Area of Critical State Concern; Designates Brevard Barrier Island Area as area of critical state concern; provides guiding principles for development within area; provides for removal of designation; providing construction.
Agency for Persons with Disabilities; Creates workgroup for continuum of guidance & information for individuals with developmental disabilities; requires APD to make eligibility determinations within specified timeframes; provides requirements for developmental disabilities home & community-based services Medicaid waiver program; revises background screening requirements for direct service providers; requires licensure of adult day training programs; provides that for purposes of disciplinary action for certain violations, licensee is ultimately responsible for care of clients in its facility or participants of program; authorizes agency to immediately suspend or revoke license of adult day training programs.
Mental Health Treatment; Authorizes DCF to issue conditional designation to facilities for limited period to allow facilities to implement corrective measures; provides forensic clients must receive psychiatric medication therapy before admission to state mental health treatment facility; specifies some possible treatment alternatives appropriate for mental illness of criminal defendant who is incompetent to proceed; revises deadline for report on persons committed for treatment; revises provisions relating to competency hearings.
Trust Funds/State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/Department of Children and Families; Creating the State Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within the Department of Children and Families; providing the purpose of the trust fund; specifying the funding source for the trust fund; providing for the reversion of certain funds to the Department of Financial Services Opioid Settlement Clearing Trust Fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
OGSR/Building Plans, Blueprints, Schematic Drawings, and Diagrams; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records for building plans, blueprints, schematic drawings, and diagrams, including draft, preliminary, and final formats, which depict the internal layout or structural elements of an attractions and recreation facility, entertainment or resort complex, industrial complex, retail and service development, office development, health care facility, or hotel or motel development; removing a provision authorizing disclosure of exempt information under certain circumstances; removing the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.
Adoption; Specifying that certain adoption consents are valid, binding, and enforceable by the court; deleting a provision regarding the sufficiency of the home study provided by the adoption entity; requiring the court to order the transfer of custody of the child to the prospective adoptive parents under certain circumstances and in accordance with a certain transition plan; requiring the adoption entity to provide monthly supervision reports for a specified time; providing that a person contemplating adoption of a child may make specified payments to the mother of the child for a specified period of time regardless of whether the medical needs of the mother require such support, etc.
Public Records/Investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs and Law Enforcement Agencies; Providing exemptions from public records requirements for information relating to investigations by the Department of Legal Affairs and law enforcement agencies of certain data privacy violations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Sickle Cell Disease Medications, Treatment, and Screening; Requiring newborn and infant screening providers to notify primary care physicians of newborns and infants of certain screening results and to submit the results to the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the department to contract with a certain center to establish and maintain a sickle cell registry; authorizing parents and guardians of children in the registry to request to have them removed from the registry; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with certain entities, to review sickle cell disease medications, treatments, and services for Medicaid recipients and develop a written report, post the report on its website, and submit a copy of the report to the Governor, the Legislature, and certain entities by a specified date and every 2 years thereafter, etc. APPROPRIATION: $1,332,159
Public Records and Public Meetings/Elder Abuse or Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Team; Specifying that information obtained by an elder abuse or vulnerable adult abuse fatality review team which is exempt or confidential and exempt from public records requirements retains its protected status; providing an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information of an abuse victim and other specified information contained in records held by a review team; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
OGSR/Current or Former Public Guardians; Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for certain identifying and location information of current or former public guardians, employees with fiduciary responsibility, and the spouses and children thereof; defining terms; narrowing the scope of the public records exemption for current public guardians and employees with fiduciary responsibility and former public guardians and employees with fiduciary responsibility, respectively; removing the scheduled repeal date of the exemption, etc.
Elder and Vulnerable Adult Abuse Fatality Review Teams; Authorizing the establishment of elder and vulnerable adult abuse fatality review teams for certain purposes; authorizing a review team to determine the number and types of incidents to review; modifying the prohibition from contacting, interviewing, or obtaining information from the family of a victim; providing that communications, information, and records produced or acquired by a review team are not subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in certain proceedings under certain circumstances, etc.
Department of Elderly Affairs; Revising the list of individuals who may not be appointed as ombudsmen under the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program; deleting an exemption from level 2 background screening requirements for certain individuals; requiring the office to notify complainants within a specified timeframe after determining that a complaint against a professional guardian is not legally sufficient; requiring the office to provide a certain written statement to the complainant and the professional guardian within a specified timeframe after completing an investigation; requiring clerks of the court to report to the office within a specified timeframe after the court imposes any sanctions on a professional guardian, etc.
