Civil Remedies Pertaining to Abortions; Defining the terms “clawback provision” and “family member”; creating a cause of action for certain violations relating to the induction or performance of an abortion; providing applicability; authorizing injunctive relief, recovery of damages, and reasonable costs and attorney fees; providing a limitation; prohibiting courts and authorities of this state from recognizing, enforcing, or giving effect to judgments or orders of another state issued under a clawback provision, with an exception; authorizing certain persons to bring a civil action against a person who initiated such actions in another state, etc.
Maternal Health and Early Learning; Citing this act as the "The Motherhood Initiative"; requiring the Department of Health to establish a certain home visit program for expectant mothers; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to authorize reduced fees for an applicant or a licensee for certain birthing centers; requiring the department to provide a blood pressure monitor and cuff to an expectant mother for certain purposes and to repair the device and provide replacement parts as necessary; authorizing a doula or midwife to be present with his or her client during childbirth at a hospital, etc.
Health Care Autonomy; Establishes fundamental right to reproductive health care; provides that every individual has fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about individual's own reproductive health; provides that individuals who become pregnant have fundamental right to make certain decisions in exercise of such right; prohibits state from denying or interfering with individual's right to access reproductive health care; prohibits state & local law enforcement agencies & officials from harassing or discriminating against individual for providing or obtaining reproductive health care or assisting another person in doing so; prohibits such state & local entities from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against individual for exercising specified rights, or against individual for assisting another in exercising such rights; provides individuals with immunity from civil liability for exercising specified rights or aiding or assisting another in exercising such rights; provides that fertilized egg, embryo, or fetus does not have independent rights under laws of this state; prohibits local units of government from regulating individual's ability to exercise right to reproductive health care in manner more restrictive than that set forth in specified provisions.
Reproductive Freedom; Creating the “Reproductive Freedom Act”; establishing the fundamental right to reproductive health care; providing that every individual has a fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about the individual’s own reproductive health; prohibiting the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s right to access reproductive health care; prohibiting such state and local entities from penalizing, prosecuting, or otherwise taking adverse action against an individual for exercising specified rights, or against an individual for assisting another in exercising such rights, etc.
Maternal Health and Early Learning; Requires DOH to establish certain home visit program for expectant mothers; provides program requirements; authorizes AHCA to authorize reduced fees for applicant or licensee for certain birthing centers; removes acceptance criteria for birthing centers; requires department to provide blood pressure monitor & cuff to expectant mother for certain purposes; requires department to create certain educational materials; revises continuing education requirements for physicians to include review of certain Medicaid payments for certain persons.
Health Care Freedom Act; Citing this act as the “Health Care Freedom Act”; repealing provisions relating to the prohibited use of state funds for travel to another state for purpose of abortion services, the prohibited use of state funds for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures, and the right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors, respectively; creating the “Health Care Transparency and Accessibility Act”; requiring a covered entity to, by a specified date, adopt a policy relating to providing written notice of a complete list of its refused services to patients, etc.
Public Records/Uterine Fibroid Research Database; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain records and personal identifying information submitted to the Department of Health for inclusion in the uterine fibroid research database; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Health Care Practitioner Maternal Mental Health Continuing Education Requirements; Providing curriculum requirements relating to maternal mental health for the required continuing education hours for licensure renewal; requiring a board, or the Department of Health if there is no board, to periodically update specified curriculum and accept the successful completion of such curriculum as credit toward continuing education requirements, etc.
Impact of Perimenopause and Menopause on Women’s Health; Requiring the Department of Health to establish a perimenopause and menopause policy workgroup; requiring the department, in collaboration with others, to develop and make publicly available on its website information relating to perimenopause and menopause, etc.
Presumptive Medicaid Eligibility for Pregnant Women; Authorizing certain entities meeting specified criteria to serve as qualified Medicaid providers for purposes of making presumptive Medicaid eligibility determinations for pregnant women; requiring the Department of Children and Families to ensure that such providers are adequately trained and monitored for compliance when serving in such roles; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide Medicaid coverage to pregnant women deemed presumptively eligible for the duration of a specified time period, etc.
