Insurance Coverage for Hearing Aids for Children; Requires individual health insurance policies & individual HMOs to provide coverage for hearing aids for children 18 years of age or younger; specifies coverage requirements; provides insured & subscriber are responsible for certain costs that exceed policy limit.
Health Care Expenses; Provides personal property exemptions for medical debts; requires licensed facility to post information on its website regarding certain services; requires facility to establish patient grievance process; prohibits certain collection activities by facility.
Tenant Safety; Revises what constitutes reasonable notice for repairs of dwelling units; requires operator of apartments to provide tenant or prospective tenant with certain background screening information; requires operator to provide tenant with list of employees or contractors & post such list on grounds of apartment or apartment's website; requires such operator to maintain, & make accessible to certain persons & during discovery, list that accounts for information for specified time period; requires licensee to provide Division of Hotels & Restaurants with certain information during its annual inspection.
Health Insurance Cost Sharing; Requires specified individual health insurers, group insurers, HMOs, & their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments for prescription drugs by or on behalf of insureds & subscribers toward total contributions of insureds' & subscribers' cost-sharing requirements; requires specified individual health insurers, group insurers, & HMOs to disclose on their websites & in their policies, certificates, & contracts their applications of payments by or on behalf of policyholders, insureds, & subscribers toward policyholders', insureds', & subscribers' total contributions to cost-sharing requirements.
Film, Television, and Digital Media Project Rebate Program; Creates Targeted High Wage Production Program within DEO; provides rebate eligibility requirements & application procedures; requires Commissioner of Film & Entertainment to review applications & take certain actions; requires annual report to Governor & Legislature; provides for expiration of program & reversion of appropriated funds.
Everglades Protection Area; Requires comprehensive plans & plan amendments that apply to certain lands within or near Everglades Protection Area to follow state coordinated review process; requires DEP to make determinations, consult, & coordinate with specified entities regarding such plans & amendments; provides additional limitation for compliance determination of such plans & plan amendments; prohibits & provides requirements for adoption of certain development amendments within Everglades Protection Area.
Background Screenings; Revising provisions related to background screenings for certain persons who have access to children; the use of the Care Provider Screening Clearing House; sharing of information; development of identification methods; & expunged & sealed criminal history records; provides appropriations & authorizes positions. APPROPRIATION: $866,431
Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revises & provides terminology & requirements relating to petitions & procedures for voluntary & involuntary admissions, examinations, & treatment under Baker Act & Marchman Act; provides appropriation. APPROPRIATION: $633,000
In-person Visitation; Requires providers to establish visitation policies & procedures within specified timeframe; provides requirements for policies & procedures; authorizes resident, client, or patient to designate essential caregiver; authorizes providers to suspend in-person visits under certain circumstances; requires providers to provide policies & procedures to AHCA; requires providers to make policies & procedures accessible from homepage of their websites.
Veteran Suicide Prevention Training; Requires DVA to establish Veteran Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program; provides purpose; requires participants to receive training; requires DVA to contract to develop training curriculum; requires DVA to oversee process for administering training & certifying participants; requires report to Legislature; provides appropriation. APPROPRIATION: $500,000
