Rep. Jose Felix Diaz

Regulatory Reform; Establishing the Red Tape Reduction Advisory Council within the Executive Office of the Governor; requiring an agency adopting a rule to submit a rule replacement request to the Administrative Procedures Committee; requiring the committee to examine rule replacement requests and existing rules; requiring the Administrative Procedures Committee to establish a regulatory baseline of agency rules; providing that a proposed rule may not cause the total number of rules to exceed the regulatory baseline, etc.

Occupational Regulatory Programs; Citing this act as the “Occupational Regulation Sunset Act”; establishing a schedule for the systematic review of occupational regulatory programs; providing for the abolition of units or subunits of government and personnel positions responsible for repealed programs; providing for the reversion of certain unexpended funds and the refund of certain unencumbered revenue of a repealed program; requiring the Department of Legal Affairs to prosecute or defend certain pending causes of actions, etc.

Local Government Reporting; Deleting an annual requirement for county budget officers and municipal budget officers, respectively, to report specified budget information to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; requiring each county and municipality to annually report specified fiscal and economic information to the Department of Financial Services; requiring the department to annually generate and distribute to residents a specified local government report, etc.

Homestead Assessment Limitation for Certain Persons; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to authorize the Legislature, by general law, to prohibit increases in the assessed value of homestead property, for school district levy purposes, if the legal or equitable title to the property is held by a person who is 65 years of age or older and if he or she has held such title and maintained permanent residence on the property for at least 25 years, and to provide an effective date, etc.

Public Records and Public Meetings/Applicants for President/State University or Florida College System Institution; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for any personal identifying information of an applicant for president of a state university or Florida College System institution; providing an exemption from public meeting requirements for any portion of a meeting held for the purpose of identifying or vetting applicants for president of a state university or Florida College System institution, including any portion of a meeting that would disclose identifying information of such applicants; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Coverage for Air Ambulance Services; Requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations, respectively, to provide reasonable reimbursement to air ambulance services for certain covered services; providing that such reimbursement may be reduced only by certain amounts; providing that full payment of an applicable copayment, coinsurance, or deductible constitutes an accord, satisfaction, and release of certain claims, etc.

Department of Business and Professional Regulation; Requiring that certain reports relating to the transportation or possession of cigarettes be filed with the Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco through the division’s electronic data submission system; renaming the Florida State Boxing Commission as the Florida Athletic Commission; revising requirements for issuing special licenses to certain food service establishments; providing the circumstances under which a person is delinquent in the payment of an assessment in the context of eligibility for membership on certain condominium boards, etc.

Practice of Pharmacy; Requiring certain licensed pharmacists to report specified information relating to public health to the Department of Health; requiring a pharmacist to complete additional training to be licensed as a consultant pharmacist; specifying criteria a pharmacist must meet to provide services under a collaborative pharmacy practice agreement; prohibiting collaborating physicians from delegating to pharmacists the authority to initiate or prescribe a controlled substance, etc.

K-12 Scholarship Programs; Revising initial scholarship eligibility criteria for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; revising eligibility criteria for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program and applying the criteria only to initial eligibility; requiring scholarship-funding organizations to use excess contributions to fund scholarships for specified students under certain conditions, etc.

Commercial Service Airports; Directing the Auditor General to conduct specified audits of certain airports; requiring members of the governing body of a large-hub commercial service airport to comply with certain financial disclosure requirements; requiring the governing body of a municipality, county, or special district that operates a commercial service airport to establish and maintain a website; requiring commercial service airports to comply with certain contracting requirements, etc.