First Responders and Crime Scene Investigators; Defines "first responder"; provides PTSD suffered by crime scene investigator is compensable occupational disease; authorizes diagnoses be made through telehealth; provides requirements for benefits; requires employing agency to provide mental health training.
Liens for Professional Services of Physicians; Provides physician has lien for amount due for professional services; provides requirements for such lien; limits liability of certain persons; provides certain evidence is admissible at trial; specifies how funds are to be disbursed if there are multiple liens; prohibits instructions for disbursement of funds; requires specified accounting & certification to be given to lienholder; provides requirements for such certification; requires disputes to be settled before funds may be disbursed; prohibits certain liens; provides for attorney fees, costs, enforcement, & preemption.
Human Trafficking; Prohibits employment of persons younger than 21 years of age in adult entertainment establishments; requires adult entertainment establishments to check identification of entertainers; specifies forms of identification that may be used.
Individuals with Disabilities; Requires APD to develop & implement electronic application process; requires agency to maintain printable paper application on its website &, upon request, provide printed paper application to an applicant; requires agency to provide applicants with specified information upon receipt of application for services; revises timeframes within which agency must make eligibility determinations for services; lowers age that caregiver must be for individual to be placed in certain preenrollment category. APPROPRIATION: $38,852,223
Progressive Supranuclear Palsy and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases Policy Workgroup; Requires State Surgeon General to establish progressive supranuclear palsy & other neurodegenerative diseases policy workgroup; provides for duties, membership, & meetings of workgroup; requiring State Surgeon General to submit annual reports & final report by specified date to Governor & Legislature.
History and Instruction of Political and Socio-economic Systems; Requires students to receive instruction on history of Communism; requires DOS to provide recommendation to Legislature relating to creation of museum of history of Communism; creates Institute for Freedom in Americas at Miami Dade College; renames Adam Smith Center for Study of Economic Freedom as Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom & revises goals of center.
Pub. Rec./Military Personnel and Their Families; Provides exemption from public records requirements for identification & location information of certain current & former military personnel & their spouses & dependents; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.
Graduate Program Admissions; Requires institution of higher education to waive certain examination requirements for servicemember who applies for admission to graduate program that requires such examination.
Treatment by a Medical Specialist; Authorizes firefighter, law enforcement officer, correctional officer, & correctional probation officer to receive medical treatment by medical specialist for certain conditions; requires continuing care & treatment by medical specialist to be reasonable, necessary & related to firefighter's or officer's condition & authorized by workers compensation carrier, self-insured employer, or third-party administrator; specifies reimbursement percentage for such treatment.
Online Protections for Minors; Requiring certain social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts and to verify the age of account holders; specifying the age verification methods the social media platform is required and authorized to offer; requiring certain social media platforms to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions for knowing or reckless violations under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act; providing penalties, etc.
