Sen. Colleen Burton

Public Records/Protection from Discrimination Based on Health Care Choices; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Legal Affairs or the Department of Health relating to complaints or investigations regarding violations of provisions protecting from discrimination based on health care choices; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Providing an annual appropriation to the Department of Environmental Protection to implement the Heartland Headwaters Protection and Sustainability Act; requiring the funds to be used and distributed for specified purposes, etc. APPROPRIATION: Indeterminate

Premises Liability for Criminal Acts by Third Parties; Specifying that owners or principal operators of multifamily residential properties have a certain presumption against liability under certain circumstances; requiring the Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute of the Department of Legal Affairs to develop a proposed curriculum relating to crime deterrence and safety training; specifying that the state has no liability in connection with providing such curriculum, etc.

Management and Storage of Surface Waters; Providing an exemption from surface water management and storage regulations for the implementation of certain measures and practices for environmental habitat creation, restoration, and enhancement activities and water quality improvements on specified agricultural lands and government-owned lands; removing requirements for adverse impacts on water resources, certain notification by the department and water management districts, and commencement of activities, etc.

Claims Against Long-term Care Facilities; Providing requirements for admissible evidence for specified claims; providing requirements for corroboration of reasonable grounds to initiate a claim for residents’ rights violation or negligence as to each prospective defendant; repealing provisions relating to specified actions not being applicable to claims for medical malpractice; providing requirements for an exclusive cause of action for residents’ rights violations or negligence to be brought against specified individuals; prohibiting a facility from being cited by the Agency for Health Care Administration under certain circumstances, etc.

Legal Proceedings for Children; Revising the entities involved in the state plan for the promotion of adoption, support of adoptive families, and prevention of abuse, abandonment, and neglect of children; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem at the earliest possible time to represent a child for specified proceedings; modifying requirements for the case plans for children in out-of-home placements; revising a guardian ad litem’s responsibilities and authorities; authorizing the Pathway to Prosperity program to provide certain grants to youth and young adults aging out of foster care, etc.

Surrendered Newborn Infants; Revising the definition of the term “newborn infant”; authorizing certain hospitals, emergency medical services stations, and fire stations to use newborn infant safety devices to accept surrendered newborn infants if the device meets specified criteria; authorizing a parent to leave a newborn infant with medical staff or a licensed health care professional at a hospital after the delivery of the newborn infant under certain circumstances, etc.

Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease; Recognizing the urgent need for the expansion of existing comprehensive cardiovascular screening programs and for the creation of new initiatives to allow for earlier identification of patients at risk of cardiovascular events to decrease the number of deaths attributable to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, etc.

Withholding or Withdrawal of Life-prolonging Procedures; Authorizing a court to delegate the right to consent to the withholding or withdrawal of life-prolonging procedures of incapacitated persons in certain circumstances; requiring that initial and annual guardianship plans, respectively, state whether any power under the ward’s preexisting order not to resuscitate or advance directive is revoked, modified, suspended, or transferred to the guardian; authorizing a guardian to petition a court for approval to consent to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures under certain circumstances, etc.

Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, subject to the availability of funds and certain limitations and directions, to provide coverage for continuous glucose monitors for certain Medicaid recipients; providing requirements for Medicaid recipients to continue receiving coverage for their continuous glucose monitors; requiring the agency to include the rate impact of the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.