Sen. Keith Truenow

My Safe Florida Home Program; Defining the term “class A opening protection”; providing additional requirements for inspections provided through the program; providing additional requirements to receive a grant through a specified program; revising the list of improvements such grants may be used for; revising requirements of a certain report; requiring the Department of Financial Services to maintain an online dashboard that includes certain information, etc.

Craft Brewing; Authorizing a licensed craft brewery to conduct tastings and sales of malt beverages at certain events; deleting a requirement that manufacturers and brewers file a surety bond with the division; revising a requirement for certain manufacturers to pay a specified license tax; authorizing contract brewers to transfer malt beverages to contracting brewers’ facilities up to a specified amount, etc.

Newborn Screenings; Citing this act as “Mattie’s Law”; requiring that newborns, beginning on a specified date, be screened for biliary atresia; requiring the Department of Health to consult with the Genetics and Newborn Screening Advisory Council before adopting certain rules; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to screen for biliary atresia in a specified manner, etc.

Criminal Activity of Insurance Professionals; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to accept and process certain fingerprints; requiring persons submitting fingerprints to bear the cost of state and federal processing; authorizing the department to exchange certain records with the Office of Insurance Regulation for certain purposes; requiring the office to review the results of certain background checks and to make a certain determination, etc.

Speech and Debate Education; Creating the Florida Speech and Debate Hall of Fame; designating Florida Speech and Debate Week annually in February; establishing the Florida Debate Initiative, Inc., (FDI) as a statewide speech and debate organization that performs certain functions in support of the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) in the Department of Education; requiring the Board of Governors of the State University System and the State Board of Education to develop specified undergraduate and graduate coursework, certificates, and micro-credentials, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,400,000

Maddy summaryThis Florida Senate Memorial (SM 1714) urges Congress to pass H.R. 260, the "No Tax Dollars for Terrorists Act," to stop taxpayer funds from reaching the Taliban. It specifically references that over $40 million weekly in U.S. taxpayer money is allegedly being sent to the Taliban through questionable channels, despite its history of human rights abuses and ties to other terrorist groups. The memorial requests Congress implement a strategy to block this funding flow. As a symbolic resolution (not a binding bill), it directs Florida's delegation to advocate for H.R. 260's passage.

Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to authorize and pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients who are eligible individuals; requiring the agency to seek federal approval and amend contracts as necessary to implement the act; requiring individual health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for eligible individuals, etc.

Capitol Center and Complex; Providing that the Department of Management Services is responsible for the aesthetics of the Capitol Center for visitors; requiring the department, in consultation with the Capitol Police, to establish enhanced security measures in certain parking areas; requiring the Capitol Police to ensure that the Capitol Complex is safe for specified persons, etc.

Cattle Grazing on State Land; Requiring land managing entities to consider the feasibility of leasing portions of land to private entities for cattle grazing when land management plans are being developed or updated; providing requirements for the land management plan; requiring land managing entities to allow such lands to be leased for such purpose under certain conditions, etc.

Compensation of the Descendants of Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepherd, and Ernest Thomas; Providing that certain facts are found and declared to be true; providing that a sum is appropriated from the General Revenue Fund to the Department of State for specified relief; requiring that a specified percentage of such relief be provided to certain individuals and estates; providing that specified persons are ineligible for further compensation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $4,000,000