Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots; Requires hospitals with emergency departments to develop & implement policies & procedures & conduct training for rendering of appropriate medical attention for persons at risk of forming venous thromboembolisms; repeals provisions requiring DOH to contract with private entity to establish statewide venous thromboembolism registry at no cost to state; provides requirements for private entity; requires hospitals with emergency department, beginning on date certain, to regularly report certain information; requires department to require private entity to use nationally recognized platform to collect certain data; requires private entity to provide regular reports to department on such data; requires agency, by date certain, to provide to Governor & Legislature specified report; provides requirements for such report; provides applicability; revises requirements for certain annual inservice training for certified nursing assistants employed by nursing home facilities; revises training requirements for certain certified nursing assistants who may be delegated tasks in nursing home facilities; provides legislative findings; requires assisted living facilities to provide a consumer information pamphlet containing specified information to residents.
Rep. Juan Porras
Sponsored bills
Boating Safety; Revises & provides penalties for vessel collisions, accidents, casualties, reckless operation, & providing false information in specified reports; revises requirements for operating certain vessels; requires person convicted of certain noncriminal infractions to pay fine; provides minimum mandatory prison term for BUI manslaughter.
My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program; Limits participation in My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program to certain structures & buildings on condominium property; prohibits condominium association from applying for hurricane mitigation inspection or mitigation grant under pilot program unless certain association property or condominium property is established as common element & association has complied with specified requirements; revises approval requirements to receive mitigation grant; removes amount of grant funding for certain projects; revises improvements for which mitigation grant may be used; requires improvements to be identified in final hurricane mitigation inspection in order for association to receive grant funds; requires grant funds to be awarded for mitigation improvement that will result in mitigation credit, discount, or other rate differential; requires mitigation improvements to be made to all openings.
Condominium and Cooperative Associations; Prohibits a person whose community association manager license is revoked from having an indirect or direct ownership interest in, or being an employee, a partner, an officer, a director, or a trustee of, a community association management firm for a specified timeframe; requires a licensee to create and maintain an online licensure account with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; requires a community association manager to identify on his or her online licensure account certain information; requires a licensee to provide specific information on his or her online licensure account; requires that such information be updated within a specified timeframe; requires a community association management firm to identify on its online licensure account the community association managers it employs to provide community association management services.
Dog Breeding Trust Fund; Creates trust fund within DACS; provides purpose of trust fund & source of funds; requires that balance of trust fund remain in fund at end of year & be available for purposes of trust fund; provides for future review & termination or re-creation of trust fund.
Maddy summaryHB 765 designates October 21 of each year as "Celia Cruz Day" in the state. This commemorative bill formally recognizes the date on the state's official calendar without creating new laws or affecting any specific group. It honors the legacy of Celia Cruz, the renowned Cuban-American singer, through an annual observance. The bill has no policy mechanisms or direct impact beyond this symbolic designation.
Dog Breeding; Establishes presumption that breeding female dog is being used for breeding purposes unless certain conditions are met; requires dog breeder certificate of registration & dog breeding facility certificate of inspection; provides criteria for DACS to enter into cooperative agreements to conduct certain inspections; authorizes DACS to create risk-based inspection frequency system; requires DACS to create database on its website which contains certain information on dog breeders, dog breeding facilities, & retail establishments that sell dogs; requires DACS to create whistleblower program; requires dog breeders to microchip certain dogs; provides specifications relating to microchipping requirements & retail establishments; provides civil penalties; provides for enforcement; authorizes civil & criminal penalties.
Fees/Dog Breeders; Requires dog breeders to pay registration & renewal fees in amounts to be determined by DACS; provides limit on such fees; requires department to notify certificateholder of annual renewal fee by specified date.
Designation of the State Birds; Designates American flamingo as official state bird and the Florida scrub-jay as the official state songbird; provides that such designation supersedes designation of mockingbird as official Florida state bird.
Tax of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft; Exempts from state sales tax lease, sale, or transfer of electric vertical takeoff & landing (eVTOL) aircraft from manufacturer to operator.