Sen. Jason Brodeur

Health Care Coverage; Establishing the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight for specified purposes; revising encounter data reporting requirements for prepaid Medicaid plans; requiring managed care plans to report to the agency and the Office of Insurance Regulation the existence of and specified details relating to certain affiliations by a specified date and annually thereafter; revising requirements for contracts between a pharmacy benefit manager and a participating pharmacy; revising and specifying additional practices pharmacy benefit managers are prohibited from engaging in, etc.

Claims Against the Government; Increasing the statutory limits on the liability of the state and its agencies and subdivisions for tort claims; revising exceptions relating to instituting actions on tort claims against the state or one of its agencies or subdivisions; revising the period after which the failure of certain entities to make a final disposition of a claim shall be deemed a final denial of the claim for certain purposes; revising the statute of limitations for tort claims against the state or one of its agencies or subdivisions and exceptions thereto, etc.

PSP Awareness Month; Designating May 2026 as “PSP Awareness Month” in Florida and recognizing the commitment of patients, their families, and health care professions to increase awareness and research regarding progressive supranuclear palsy and other neurodegenerative diseases, etc.

Florida Wildlife Corridor Day; Affirming the importance of the Florida Wildlife Corridor and its significant environmental, cultural, economic, and tourism value as a unique natural resource and recognizing February 17, 2026, as “Florida Wildlife Corridor Day”, etc.

Maddy summaryThis Senate Resolution (SR 1214) designates February 4, 2026, as "Florida State Parks Day" to recognize the state's park system. It does not create new laws or policies but formally honors Florida's 175 state parks, trails, and historic sites managed across 815,000 acres. The resolution highlights the parks' economic impact ($3.6 billion in 2024-2025), visitor numbers (28 million), and conservation achievements. It is a ceremonial designation with no direct effect on residents, businesses, or park operations.

Public Records/Congressional Members and Public Officers; Providing exemptions from public records requirements for the partial home addresses and telephone numbers of current congressional members and public officers and their spouses and adult children and the names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and dates of birth of, and the names and locations of schools and day care facilities attended by, the minor children of such congressional members and public officers; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Mental Health; Citing this act as the “Tristin Murphy Act”; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc. APPROPRIATION: $794,880

Regulation of Presidential Libraries; Preempting to the state all regulatory authority over the establishment, maintenance, activities, and operations of presidential libraries; defining the term “presidential library”; prohibiting counties, municipalities, or other political subdivisions from enacting or enforcing any ordinance, resolution, rule, or other measure regarding presidential libraries unless authorized by federal law, etc.

Medicaid Oversight; Establishing the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight for specified purposes; requiring the Auditor General and the Agency for Health Care Administration to enter into a data sharing agreement by a specified date; providing that the committee must be given access to certain records, papers, and documents, etc.

Florida Museum of Black History; Providing legislative intent; establishing the Florida Museum of Black History Board of Directors; prohibiting specified members of the board from holding state or local elective office while serving on the board; requiring that the board work jointly with the Foundation for the Museum of Black History, Inc., etc.