Misdescription of Beneficiaries and Banks; Revises requirements for rights as beneficiary of order & acceptance of order when beneficiary is nonexistent or unidentifiable person or account; removes rules relating to accepted payment orders; revises requirements relating to misdescription of banks for intermediaries & beneficiaries.
Restrictions on Firearms and Ammunition During Emergencies; Repeals provisions relating to specified automatic restrictions on firearms & ammunition during certain declared emergencies.
Home and Community-based Services Medicaid Waiver Program; Requires APD to develop & implement automated, electronic application process for specified services; provides requirements for application process; requires agency to provide application in printed form or portable document format under certain circumstances; requires agency to make eligibility determination in specified amount of time for certain persons; authorizes agency to request additional documentation under certain circumstances; provides requirements for such request; provides requirements for AHCA when client’s iBudget is established; requires agency within specified time period to ensure certain services that client has applied for have begun.
Food Delivery Platforms; Requires food delivery platforms to disclose information & provide notice to consumer; authorizes Division of Hotels & Restaurants of DBPR to issue to food delivery platform notice to cease & desist for specified violations; requires division to provide food delivery platform ability to cure any violation within specified timeframe before enforcing such notice or imposing civil penalty; authorizes division to enforce such notice through specified legal proceedings & to collect attorney fees & costs; authorizes division to impose civil penalty; authorizes division to receive & investigate complaints of specified violations; preempts regulation of food service platforms to state.
Education; Revises provisions relating to specified education services; establishes Graduation Alternative to Traditional Education (GATE) Program for specified purpose; creates GATE Scholarship Program; & creates GATE Startup Grant Program.
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
Exposures of First Responders to Fentanyl and Fentanyl Analogs; Provides criminal penalties for adults who unlawfully possess specified controlled substances & who expose first responder to such substances, if exposure results in an overdose or serious bodily injury; provides affirmative defense.
Congenital Cytomegalovirus Screening; Requires certain hospitals to administer congenital cytomegalovirus screenings on newborns admitted to hospital under specified circumstances; provides coverage under Medicaid program for screenings & any medically necessary follow-up reevaluations; requires newborns diagnosed with congenital cytomegalovirus be referred to primary care physician for medical management, treatment, & follow-up services.
Continuing Education Requirements; Requires board, or DBPR when there is no board, to allow by rule that distance learning may be used to satisfy continuing education requirements; revises requirements that such continuing education must satisfy; requires board or DBPR to exempt certain individuals from completing their continuing education requirement.
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.
