Eligibility for Medical Assistance and Related Services; Extending Medicaid eligibility to specified adults, etc.
Sponsored bills
Holocaust Remembrance Day; Requiring the Governor to proclaim January 27 of each year as “Holocaust Remembrance Day”; requiring such day to be observed in public schools and by public exercises as the Governor may designate, etc.
Elections; Requiring the Secretary of State to be elected rather than appointed; requiring an applicant to designate a party affiliation or select “no party affiliation” to be registered to vote; authorizing a person who meets certain requirements to register to vote at an early voting site or at his or her polling place and to immediately thereafter cast a ballot; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to preregister certain individuals to vote; authorizing a candidate to pay his or her qualification fee with a cashier’s check; requiring the Governor to consult with affected supervisors of elections in fixing the dates for special elections, etc.
Required Instruction in the History of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders; Requiring that the history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders be taught in the public schools; requiring that instructional materials used in teaching this subject area include specified information, etc.
Health Care Provider Accountability; Providing criminal and civil immunity to health care workers of hospitals and nursing home facilities, respectively, who carry out directives of a supervising health care practitioner or entity; providing an exception; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide a report on the success of the personal care attendant program to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date each year; providing requirements for the report; requiring the agency to add a quality metric to its Quality Incentive Program for a specified purpose, etc.
Restoration of Voting Rights; Requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to develop and maintain a database containing certain information for a certain purpose; requiring certain governmental entities to provide certain information to the commission; requiring the Department of Management Services, acting through the Florida Digital Service, to provide certain technical assistance to the commission; requiring the commission to update the database monthly and publish certain information on the website; requiring the commission to provide a comprehensive plan to the Governor and Legislature by a certain date, etc.
1920 Ocoee Election Day Riots; Requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to prioritize certain applications for the Black Business Loan Program; creating the Ocoee Scholarship Program for specified recipients; directing the Department of Education to administer the program; authorizing the State Board of Education to adopt certain rules, etc.
Divine Nine Specialty License Plate; Defining the term “immediate relative”; revising eligibility requirements for a Divine Nine license plate, etc.
Coverage for Diagnostic and Supplemental Breast Examinations; Prohibiting the state group insurance program from imposing any enrollee cost-sharing liability with respect to coverage for diagnostic breast examinations and supplemental breast examinations; defining the terms “diagnostic breast examination” and “supplemental breast examination”; prohibiting the imposition of cost-sharing requirements for diagnostic and supplemental breast examinations by individual accident and health insurance policies; group, blanket, and franchise accident or health insurance policies; and health maintenance contracts, respectively, which provide such coverage, etc.
Human Trafficking; Revising definitions and defining terms; revising criminal penalties to include fines of certain amounts for violations of specified offenses; requiring the Department of Education and Department of Health, in conjunction with the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking, to establish an awareness training program and community partnership on human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and child trafficking; requiring each state attorney to ensure prosecutors receive certain mandatory semiannual educational training, etc.