Health Insurance Coverage; Prohibits certain health insurance policies & health maintenance contracts from requiring that insured & subscriber undergo step-therapy protocol & step-therapy override determination; prohibits such policies & contracts from excluding coverage for certain drugs; requires certain health coverage plans to provide process for requests for step-therapy protocol override determination; requires health coverage plans to grant requests to override step-therapy protocols under certain circumstances; prohibits health insurers & HMOs from retroactively denying certain claims because of insured & subscriber ineligibility; prohibits health insurers & HMOs from imposing additional prior authorization requirements for specified procedures & items.
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Threats; Decreases penalty for threatening to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device with intent to do bodily harm or with intent to do damage to any property of any person; requires written or electronic threat to conduct mass shooting or act of terrorism to be sufficient to cause well-founded fear in reasonable person; revises penalties.
State Hemp Program; Provides that certain outlets selling hemp are subject to food permit requirements; directs DACS to submit amended plan to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under certain circumstances; removes requirement for use of certain hemp seeds & cultivars; revises distribution & retail sale requirements for hemp extract; deems certain hemp extract as adulterated or misbranded; authorizes DACS to contract for specified services; requires rules to include specified testing & sampling procedures; provides for Industrial Hemp Advisory Council as sole program advisory body to DACS; directs DACS to provide specified report to Legislature.
Citrus/Hernando Waterways Restoration Council, Citrus County; Repeals provisions relating to membership, powers, & duties of council.