Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer; Reducing minimum age at which person may purchase firearm & age of purchasers to which specified licensees are prohibited from selling or transferring firearm.
Recall of County Officers and Commissioners; Proposes amendment to State Constitution to authorize Legislature to provide by general law for recall of county officers & commissioners.
Recall of County Commissioners; Provides that members of governing body of noncharter county may be removed from office by electors of county.
Exemptions for Totally and Permanently Disabled Veterans; Expands eligibility for certain prorated refund.
Payment of Health Insurance Claims; Prohibits health insurer & health maintenance organization from retroactively denying claim at any time because of ineligibility of insured & subscriber; specifies exception; requires health insurer & HMO to provide accurate information to provider about insurer's & subscriber's grace period status; authorizes health insurer & HMO to recoup payment retroactively within specified timeframe if such accurate information is given to provider; provides nonapplicability of prohibition to Medicaid managed care plans.
State Land Acquisition; Revises, creates, & repeals various provisions relating to the procedures & requirements for acquisition, retention, & disposal of state lands & prioritization of projects relating to such lands.
Health Care Practitioner Titles and Abbreviations; Provides use of specified titles or designations in connection with one's name constitutes practice of medicine; revises grounds for disciplinary action relating to practitioner's use of such titles or designations in identifying himself or herself to patients or in advertisements for health care services; requires health care practitioners to prominently display copies of their licenses; requires health care practitioners to also verbally identify themselves in specified manner to new patients.
Postsecondary Educational Institutions; Revises powers & duties of BOG; revises academic & research excellence standards for preeminent state research universities; provides requirements for hiring university faculty; provides requirements for employment, promotion, & evaluation processes for state university employees; authorizes state university boards of trustees to review tenure status of faculty members; requires such boards to confirm selection & reappointment of specified personnel; requires state university presidents to annually present specified information to such boards; creates Institute for Risk Management & Insurance Education within College of Business at UCF; revises requirements for general education core courses.
Government and Corporate Activism; Revises provisions relating to deposits & investments of state money, retirement system & trust fund assets, & public funds; defined contribution plans; bonds; government contracts; financial institutions; consumer finance; money services businesses; & unfair & deceptive trade practices.
Public Nuisances; Prohibits person from distributing onto private property any material for purpose of intimidating or threatening owner, resident, or invitee; prohibits person from willfully & maliciously harassing, threatening, or intimidating another person based on person's wearing or displaying of any indicia relating to any religious or ethnic heritage; requires violations be reported as hate crimes; prohibits display or projection of images onto building, structure, or property without permission; prohibits person who willfully enters campus of state university or Florida College System institution for purpose of threatening or intimidating another person from remaining on such campus after being warned to depart.
