Rep. Dianne Hart-Lowman

Firefighter Health and Safety ; Requires Division of State Fire Marshal within DFS to adopt certain rules; requires division to assist in decreasing frequency of fatalities; requires division to adopt rules relating to education on chemical hazards or toxic substances & mental health best practices.

Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death; Removes provision that precluded certain persons from recovering damages for medical negligence resulting in death.

Maddy summaryHB 519 allows medical practitioners (like doctors) to authorize certified paramedics to administer controlled substances during emergency medical care. This directly affects paramedics and the healthcare providers who oversee their work. The key provision requires a practitioner’s specific authorization for paramedics to use medications classified as controlled substances (such as opioids or sedatives) in urgent situations. It does not expand the types of drugs available but clarifies the process for their use under medical direction. The bill focuses on updating protocols for emergency care without changing drug classifications or creating new requirements for paramedics.

State Land Management; Requiring public hearings for all updated conservation and nonconservation land management plans; requiring the Division of State Lands of the Department of Environmental Protection to make available to the public, within a specified timeframe, electronic copies of land management plans for parcels of a certain size and for parcels located in state parks; revising the duties of the Division of Recreation and Parks of the Department of Environmental Protection; specifying requirements for the management of parks and recreational areas held by the state; requiring the division to comply with specified provisions when granting certain privileges, leases, concessions, and permits; authorizing the division to acquire, install, or permit the installation or operation at state parks of campsites and cabins that meet certain requirements; prohibiting the division from authorizing certain uses or construction activities within a state park; prohibiting the division from installing or permitting the installation of any lodging establishment within the boundaries of a state park; requiring that individual management plans for parcels located within state parks be developed with input from an advisory group; requiring that the advisory group's required public hearings be noticed to the public within a specified timeframe, etc.

Maddy summaryHB 85, titled "Hazardous Walking Conditions," revises the criteria used to determine what constitutes a hazardous walking condition for public school students. This bill directly affects public school students by potentially altering the conditions under which they might be eligible for transportation services due to unsafe walking routes. The official abstract does not specify the new or revised criteria that would be implemented.

Relief/Sidney Holmes/State of Florida; Provides appropriation from State of Florida to compensate Sidney Holmes for wrongful incarceration; directs CFO to draw warrant payable directly to Sidney Holmes; declares that Legislature does not waive certain defenses or increase state's limits of liability with respect to act; prohibits funds awarded from being used or paid for attorney or lobbying fees; provides that certain benefits are void upon specified findings. CLAIM WITH APPROPRIATION: $1,722,000

Education in Correctional Facilities for Licensed Professions; Requires Correctional Education Program to develop plan in coordination with boards of professions within DBPR, or DBPR when there is no board, for inmates to take classes for credit toward licensure requirements.

Comprehensive Waste Reduction and Recycling Plan; Authorizes certain private businesses to participate in program to annually report amount of materials they recycle, using specified form; requires DEP to develop comprehensive waste reduction & recycling plan by specified date, based on certain department recommendations; specifies minimum requirements for comprehensive plan; requires department to publish report.

Sampling of Beach Waters and Public Bathing Spaces; Revises provisions related to bacteriological sampling of beach waters & public bathing places, including rule adoption & enforcement; issuance of health advisories; closure of beach waters & public bathing places; & notification & signage requirements.

Safe Exchange of Minor Children; Provides requirements for parenting plan relating to exchange of child; requires court to order parties to parenting plan to exchange child at neutral safe exchange location or supervised visitation program; requires sheriffs to designate areas as neutral safe exchange locations; provides immunity from liability; revises forms for injunctions for protection against domestic violence; requires court-ordered injunctions for protection against domestic violence to designate locations for exchange of child of parties.