Rep. Allison Tant

Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care; Creates Task Force on Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care; provides for membership; requires task force to convene by specified date; authorizes task force to conduct meetings through teleconference or other electronic means; provides duties of task force; requires Florida Institute for Child Welfare to conduct focus groups or individual interviews & submit its findings to task force; requires DCF to submit certain monthly reports to task force; requires task force to submit report to Governor & Legislature; provides for repeal of task force; provides appropriation.

Support for Dependent Adult Children; Creates procedures & requirements for parents, guardians, or guardian advocates of dependent adult children to petition for support; prohibits child support order from terminating on child's 18th birthday; revises provisions relating to modification of child support orders & time-sharing; authorizes either parent to consent to mental health treatment of child; authorizes court to order father to pay fees, costs, & expenses to specified persons; prohibits child support guidelines from applying to certain cases.

Offenses Involving Fentanyl or Fentanyl Analogs; Provides criminal penalties & mandatory minimum term of imprisonment if person sells, manufactures, or delivers, or possesses with intent to sell, manufacture, or deliver, specified substances or mixtures, & such substance or mixture has at least one specified attribute.

Blood Clot and Pulmonary Embolism Policy Workgroup; Requires Secretary of Health Care Administration, in conjunction with State Surgeon General, to establish blood clot & pulmonary embolism policy workgroup; provides for duties, membership, terms of office, & meetings of workgroup; requires Secretary of Health Care Administration to submit annual reports, & final report by specified date, to Governor & Legislature.

Hemp; Provides hemp extract is considered food subject to certain requirements; revises requirements hemp extract must meet before being distributed & sold; provides hemp extract may only be sold to businesses which meet permitting requirements; prohibits products intended for human ingestion which contain hemp extract from being sold to persons under specified age; provides that certain hemp extract products are subject to immediate stop-sale.

Certified Nursing Assistants; Provides nursing home may authorize registered nurse to delegate certain tasks to CNAs; provides for designation of CNAs as qualified medication aides; prohibits qualified medication aides from being included in computation of specified hours of direct care & staffing ratios; authorizes registered nurses to delegate to CNAs administration of medications to residents; authorizes CNAs to administer medications to residents & patients; requires Board of Nursing to establish standards & procedures certified nursing assistant must follow when administering medication to resident of nursing home facility.

Genetic Counselors Using Telehealth; Revises definition of term telehealth provider to include persons licensed as genetic counselor.

Suicide Prevention; Renames Commission on Mental Health & Substance Abuse; revises purposes of commission to include assessment of state's suicide prevention infrastructure; revises membership & duties of commission; requires commission to submit annual interim reports for specified timeframe; revises date by which commission must submit its final report; extends repeal date of commission.

Florida Retirement System; Revises provisions relating to Special Risk Class normal retirement date, DROP participation, interest accrual rates, COLA, employer retirement contribution rates, investment plan member accounts, member disability coverage, & line-of-duty death benefit coverage.

Insurance; Creates Property Insurance Commission; provides for election of Commissioner of Insurance Regulation; revises homeowners' eligibility criteria for mitigation grants; requires interests earned on insurance proceeds received by mortgagees & assignees to be paid to insureds; prohibits property insurers from claiming insolvency under certain circumstances; authorizes persons that engage in property insurance activities in other states to engage in insurance activities in this state only under certain circumstances; requires property insurers to cap premiums or to create sliding fee scales for premium rates; prohibits property insurers from using certain defenses as claims denials; revises requirements for risk assignment agreements; provides duties of OIR; requires DFS to adopt rules regarding allegations of insurance fraud; requires OPPAGA to conduct study of effectiveness of property insurance mediation program; increases appropriation to specified program. APPROPRIATION: $300,000,000