Recovery for Wrongful Death; Deleting a prohibition on adult children of certain decedents recovering specified damages, etc.
Sponsored bills
Resilience-related Advisory Committees; Authorizing specified resilience-related advisory committees to conduct public meetings and workshops by means of communications media technology; providing that use of such technology by a committee member constitutes that member’s presence at such meeting or workshop; requiring that such technology allow the public to audibly communicate, etc.
Insurance Coverage for At-home COVID-19 Test Kits; Defining the term “at-home COVID-19 test kit”; requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide 100 percent coverage for at-home COVID-19 test kits; providing for expiration of the insurance coverage, etc.
Percentage of Elector Votes Required to Approve an Amendment or a Revision to the State Constitution; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to increase the percentage of elector votes required to approve an amendment to or a revision of the State Constitution from 60 percent to 66.67 percent, except that the repeal of an amendment or revision need only be approved by the same percentage of elector votes as was required at the time of passage of such amendment or revision, etc.
Pharmacies and Pharmacy Benefit Managers; Requiring that certain pharmacies be included in managed care plan pharmacy networks; requiring managed care plans to publish the Agency for Health Care Administration’s preferred drug list, rather than any prescribed drug formulary; providing requirements for managed care plans using pharmacy benefit managers; requiring the Office of Insurance Regulation to examine pharmacy benefit managers under certain circumstances; authorizing the Office of Insurance Regulation to suspend or revoke a pharmacy benefit manager’s registration or impose a fine for specified violations, etc.
Aquaculture; Providing for the assessment of land used in the production of aquaculture based solely on its use; requiring a property appraiser to use a specified assessment methodology; authorizing the property appraiser to require property owners to annually submit audited financial statements; revising the authority of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to revoke aquaculture certificates of registration to apply to facilities, rather than entities, etc.
Building Safety; Defining the term “milestone inspection”; specifying that the purpose of a milestone inspection is not to determine compliance with the Florida Building Code or the firesafety code; requiring certain associations to periodically have a study conducted relating to required reserves after a specified date; requiring associations to provide for the maintenance, repair, and replacement of condominium property; authorizing boards to adopt a special assessment or borrow money for certain reasons without unit owner approval; revising certification and education requirements for directors of association boards, etc.
Public Records and Meetings/Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Counseling Compact Commission or its executive committee; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
Statewide Flooding and Sea Level Rise Resilience; Establishing the Statewide Office of Resilience within the Executive Office of the Governor; providing for the appointment of a Chief Resilience Officer; requiring the Department of Transportation to develop a resilience action plan for the State Highway System; revising the projects the Department of Environmental Protection may fund within the Resilient Florida Grant Program; extending the dates by which the department must complete a comprehensive statewide flood vulnerability and sea-level rise data set and assessment; requiring the Florida Flood Hub for Applied Research and Innovation to provide tidal and storm surge flooding data to counties and municipalities for vulnerability assessments, etc.
Mental Health Professionals; Creating the Professional Counselors Licensure Compact; providing for recognition of the privilege to practice licensed professional counseling in member states; providing for the recognition of the practice of professional counseling through telehealth in member states; providing for the development of the data system, reporting procedures, and the exchange of specified information between member states; specifying that the compact, commission rules, and commission actions are binding on member states, etc.