Millage Rates; Prohibits certain increases in millage rate from going into effect until it has been approved by specified vote.
Rep. Sam Garrison
Sponsored bills
Medicaid Supplemental Payment Programs; Provides requirements for hospital participation in certain Medicaid supplemental payment programs.
Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals; Specifies manner in which hospitals may seek designation as behavioral health teaching hospital & requirements hospital must meet to receive such designation; establishes Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce within Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute; establishes Florida Behavioral Health Professions Scholarship & Grants Program; requires DCF to contract for study.
Referendums to Increase Millage; Prohibits any increase in millage rate from going into effect until it has been approved by specified vote.
Biomedical Research; Expanding the uses of the Biomedical Research Trust Fund; authorizing a specified amount from the total appropriated funds for the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program to be distributed to participating cancer centers; requiring a report for specified statewide cancer statistics to include breast cancer; removing a certain award of an endowment for a specified program.
Firearm and Destructive Device Offenses; Makes offense of human trafficking during which person possesses firearm or destructive device or specified firearms or accessories subject to specified mandatory minimums; revises maximum time minor who commits unlawful firearm possession may be required to serve in secure detention; provides penalty for second or subsequent offense of grand theft of firearm; requires detention determination & juvenile risk assessment instrument to consider juvenile's unlawful firearm use; requires juvenile charged with offense involving unlawful firearm possession or use to be placed in secure detention.
Pretrial Release and Detention; Provides for setting, reduction, & alteration of bail; requires Supreme Court to create statewide uniform bail bond schedule; provides for chief judge of judicial circuit to establish lower bail bond schedule; provides certain arrested persons may not be released until first appearance; provides court may revoke pretrial release & order detention if defendant materially violates release condition; requires court to order pretrial detention in certain circumstances; provides requirements for detention hearings; removes requirement for pretrial detention for defendants charged with illegally manufacturing controlled substances in certain cases.
Public Nuisances; Prohibits person from distributing onto private property any material for purpose of intimidating or threatening owner, resident, or invitee; prohibits person from willfully & maliciously harassing, threatening, or intimidating another person based on person's wearing or displaying of any indicia relating to any religious or ethnic heritage; requires violations be reported as hate crimes; prohibits display or projection of images onto building, structure, or property without permission; prohibits person who willfully enters campus of state university or Florida College System institution for purpose of threatening or intimidating another person from remaining on such campus after being warned to depart.
Trust Funds/Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/DCF; Creates Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within DCF; provides for future review & termination; providing the source of funds; providing an exemption from a certain service charge; requiring funds to revert under certain conditions.
Medicaid Reimbursement for Nursing Home Care; Revises parameter to implement prospective payment methodology for Medicaid reimbursement rate settings for nursing home care.