Sen. Jason Brodeur

Agency for Persons with Disabilities; Requiring the agency to convene an interagency workgroup for a specified purpose; requiring the agency to make certain eligibility determinations within specified timeframes; revising provisions related to the developmental disabilities home and community-based services Medicaid waiver program; revising background screening requirements for certain direct service providers, etc.

911 Public Safety Telecommunicator Certifications; Increasing the timeframe within which an inactive 911 public safety telecommunicator certificate may be reactivated before it permanently expires; deleting a process by which a certificateholder may voluntarily place his or her certificate in inactive status; prohibiting the Department of Health from requiring certificateholders to pay a fee or to make an election to place their certificates in inactive status, beginning on a specified date, etc.

Florida Atlantic University Men’s Basketball Team; Recognizing and celebrating the incredible accomplishments of the Florida Atlantic University men’s basketball team and the university’s commitment to both academic and athletic excellence, creating a collegiate brand that is nationally renowned, etc.

Florida Shared-Use Nonmotorized Trail Network; Authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to establish a program to recognize specified local communities as trail towns; revising the composition of the board of directors of the Florida Tourism Industry Marketing Corporation; extending the Florida Shared-Use Nonmotorized Trail Network to lands of the Florida wildlife corridor; increasing the amount the Department of Transportation is required to allocate for purposes of funding and maintaining projects within the Florida Shared-Use Nonmotorized Trail Network, etc. APPROPRIATION: $200,000,000

Path of the Panther Day; Recognizing April 11, 2023, as “Path of the Panther Day” in Florida to highlight the recovery of the Florida panther and celebrate the Florida Wildlife Corridor, etc.