Rep. Hillary Cassel

Home Health Aides for Medically Fragile Children; Requires home health agencies to ensure tasks delegated to home health aides for medically fragile children meet specified requirements; provides individuals exemption from costs associated with specified training; authorizes home health aides for medically fragile children to perform tasks delegated by registered nurse; requires AHCA to conduct annual assessment of certified health aide program; requires agency to submit report to Governor & Legislature; requires agency to establish a specified fee schedule; provides appropriations. APPROPRIATION: $472,317

Environmental Protection; Revises, creates, & repeals various provisions relating to procedures & requirements for acquisition, retention, & disposal of state lands & prioritization of projects relating to such lands.

Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; Creates Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; provides for recognition of psychologist licenses in compact states; authorizes compact state to require licensure; requires compact states to meet criteria to participate in compact; establishes Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission; provides membership, duties, & powers; provides for state enforcement of compact; provides for termination of compact membership; requires Board of Psychology to appoint individual to serve as state's commissioner on Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission; designates state commissioner & other members or employees of commission as state agents for purpose of applying sovereign immunity & waivers of sovereign immunity.

Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; Provides exemption from public records requirements for information held by DOH or the Board of Psychology pursuant to the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; provides exemption from public meeting requirements for certain meetings of the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact Commission; provides for future legislative review & repeal of the exemptions; provides statement of public necessity.

Dental Services for Veterans; Establishes Veterans Dental Care Grant Program within DVA; specifies purpose of program; requires DVA to contract with direct-support organization to administer program; provides program funding is subject to legislative appropriation.

Abandoned and Historic Cemeteries; Creates Historic Cemeteries Program within Division of Historical Resources of DOS; creates Historic Cemeteries Program Advisory Council; authorizes certain entities to acquire conservation easements to preserve cemeteries; provides appropriations & authorizes positions. APPROPRIATION: $1,254,454

Required African-American Instruction; Requires each school district to certify & provide certain evidence to DOE regarding certain instruction; authorizes DOE to seek input from & contract with certain educational organizations for specified purposes; requires each school district to submit implementation plan to Commissioner of Education & post plan on its website; provides requirements for plan; requires commissioner or DOE to provide certain notification; provides timeframe within which school district must submit revisions to its plan; authorizes SBE to take certain actions.

Scholarships and Loan Forgiveness for Mental Health Professionals; Establishes mental health profession scholarship & loan forgiveness program within DOH for specified purpose; provides for applicant eligibility & award of scholarships; limits number of scholarship awards that may be granted each year; specifies service obligations for scholarship recipients; provides for repayment of scholarship funds if program requirements are not fully satisfied; provides for applicant eligibility & award of loan repayments; specifies conditions for award of such loan repayments; requires department to review loan repayment applicant requests on quarterly basis & grant awards in specified manner.

Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults; Requires AHCA, in consultation with Commission on Mental Health & Substance Abuse, to conduct study for specified purpose; provides requirements for study; provides duties for agency based on findings in study; requires agency to submit report of findings & recommendations to Governor & Legislature by specified date.

Public Lodging and Public Food Service Establishments; Requires applicant for vacation rental license to provide Division of Hotels & Restaurants of DBPR with certain information; revises penalties for operator who fails, neglects, or refuses to obtain license or pay required license fee.