Sen. Jay Collins

Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients; 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; prohibiting health insurers and health maintenance organizations from denying claims under certain circumstances, etc.

Premises Liability; Requiring that the trier of fact in actions for damages arising out of intentional torts of third parties consider the fault of all persons, known or unknown, alleged to have contributed to the injury, etc.

Department of Management Services; Providing that certain positions are exempt from the Career Service System; providing that certain entities are exempt from a specified sales tax on the sale or transfer of personal property through the Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program; exempting aircraft maintenance, repairs, modifications, systems, parts, and other related components from specified competitive-solicitation requirements; providing an order of preference when two or more bids, proposals, or replies from such vendors are received for certain competitive solicitations; authorizing agencies to apply a preference upon receipt and review of documentation from the vendor that its supply chain does not use child or forced labor, etc.

Veterans’ Assistance; Requiring the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, subject to appropriation, to expand outreach programs connecting veterans, families, and their survivors to certain services, benefits, and support; requiring the department to host public events for such purpose; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature which contains specified information, etc.

Florida State Guard; Providing that the Florida State Guard is composed of volunteers instead of members; defining terms; requiring the Governor to commission all officers of the Florida State Guard; deleting a requirement that all training programs for the Florida State Guard be equivalent to a certain training; revising the conditions during which the Governor may activate the Florida State Guard, etc.

Reemployment of Retirees in the Florida Retirement System; Allowing a retiree to be reemployed by an employer participating in the Florida Retirement System and to receive compensation from that employer and retirement benefits after meeting the definition of termination; establishing contributions rates necessary to fund a new retirement benefit, etc.

Wind Energy Facility Siting; Prohibiting construction, operation, or expansion of wind energy facilities and offshore wind energy facilities in this state, etc.

Veterans; Creating the Florida Veterans’ History Program within the Division of Arts and Culture of the Department of State as a Florida Folklife Program; revising the purpose of Florida Is For Veterans, Inc.; revising the duties of the corporation to require that it conduct specified activities directed toward its target market; revising the purpose of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; authorizing the use of grant funds to provide for a specified educational stipend; prohibiting the Department of State from charging veterans who reside in this state fees for the filing of specified documents, etc. APPROPRIATION: $619,721

Patriotic Organizations; Defining the term “patriotic organization”; authorizing school districts to allow representatives of patriotic organizations certain opportunities to speak to students, distribute certain materials, and provide certain displays relating to the patriotic organizations; prohibiting a school district from discriminating against certain organizations in the use of a school building or property under certain circumstances, etc.

Payments for Health Care Services; Establishing a 3-year statute of limitations for an action to collect medical debt for services rendered by certain health care facilities; providing additional personal property exemptions from legal process for medical debts resulting from services provided in certain licensed facilities; requiring certain licensed facilities to post on their respective websites a consumer-friendly list of standard charges for a minimum number of shoppable health care services, etc.