Sen. Doug Broxson

Free Speech of Health Care Practitioners; Prohibiting certain regulatory boards and the Department of Health from reprimanding, sanctioning, or revoking or threatening to revoke a license, certificate, or registration of a health care practitioner for specified use of his or her right of free speech without specified proof; providing for liability; requiring the board or department, as applicable, to provide to a health care practitioner certain complaints within a specified timeframe, etc.

Infrastructure Project Funding; Prohibiting an administering agency from disbursing funds from any category of the General Appropriations Act for infrastructure projects under certain conditions; requiring a grantee to use the revenues for infrastructure projects for certain activities; prohibiting water management districts from appropriating or disbursing funds to grantees for water-related projects unless certain conditions are met; prohibiting certain entities from applying for water project grant funding, etc.

Ratification of Rules of the Department of Financial Services; Ratifying a specified rule relating to the Florida Workers’ Compensation Health Care Provider Reimbursement Manual, for the sole and exclusive purpose of satisfying any condition on effectiveness pursuant to s. 120.541(3), F.S., which requires ratification of any rule meeting any specified thresholds for likely adverse impact or increase in regulatory costs, etc.

Restrictions on Employment; Providing that restrictive covenants are only enforceable against a former employee, agent, or independent contractor who voluntarily resigned or was terminated for misconduct or failing to satisfy performance standards or goals; defining the term “misconduct”, etc.

Public Records/Information or Records/Executions; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for information or records that identify or could reasonably lead to the identification of any person or entity that participates in an execution; providing for retroactive application; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Cleanup of Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for statewide cleanup target levels for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances in soil and groundwater by a specified date; prohibiting such rules from taking effect until ratified by the Legislature; providing that certain persons are not subject to administrative or judicial action under certain circumstances; providing that certain statutes of limitations are tolled from a specified date, etc.

Breach of Bond Costs; Requiring sureties to pay costs and expenses incurred in returning a defendant to the jurisdiction of the court; providing construction; specifying recoverable costs; revising and providing definitions, etc.

Credit for Reinsurance; Transferring specified authority and duties relating to credit for reinsurance from the Commissioner of Insurance to the Office of Insurance Regulation; revising the attorney designation requirement in reinsurance agreements with certain assuming insurers under certain circumstances; specifying requirements for assuming insurers and reinsurance agreements; authorizing a ceding insurer or its representative that is subject to rehabilitation, liquidation, or conservation to seek a certain court order; providing construction, etc.

Trust Funds/Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund; Re-creating the Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund within the Department of Economic Opportunity without modification; removing provisions relating to the termination of the trust fund, etc.