Recovery Residences; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require only a level 2 background screening for certain individuals under certain circumstances; prohibiting the department from requiring certain existing licensed service providers to admit individuals for services during the probationary licensing period if certain requirements and conditions are met, etc.
Maddy summaryThis is a ceremonial Senate Resolution (SR 1804) recognizing the 80-year legacy of Pinellas County's Juvenile Welfare Board (JWB). It commemorates the JWB's founding in 1945 as the nation's first independent board dedicated to children's welfare, highlighting its historical role in replacing incarceration for at-risk youth with community-based services. The resolution notes the JWB currently serves 83,622 children annually through 98 programs, focusing on prevention, mental health, education, and childhood hunger. As a symbolic gesture, it does not create new policies or affect any group through legislative action.
Procedures for Discharging Persons to Avoid Homelessness; Citing this act as the “Bridging Systems to Housing Act”; encouraging certain facilities and institutions, in collaboration with a continuum of care lead agency, to develop and implement certain procedures for when persons are discharged from certain facilities or institutions; requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct a pilot program in specified counties; defining the term “client-level data”; requiring the sharing of client-level data to comply with specified state and federal laws and regulations, etc.
THC; Defining the term “THC-infused beverage”; prohibiting a person from possessing an open container of a THC-infused beverage or consuming such beverage while operating a vehicle in this state, being a passenger in or on a vehicle being operated in this state, or while seated in or on a parked or stopped motor vehicle within a road in this state; prohibiting a person from selling, giving, serving, or permitting the service of THC-infused beverages to persons under 21 years of age; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Interception and Disclosure of Oral Communications; Authorizing a person to intercept and record an oral communication if the person is a party to the communication and certain conditions are met; limiting the use of the intercepted communication to evidencing an act of domestic violence, etc.
K-12 School Lunches and Breakfasts; Requiring K-12 public schools to participate in the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program; providing requirements for the provision of school lunches and breakfasts at such schools; authorizing school districts to collect payment for specified meals; prohibiting school districts from using third-party debt collectors, etc.
Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Screenings; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules establishing certain practice parameters and protocols for early periodic screening, diagnostic, and treatment services for pediatric behavioral and mental health screenings; requiring health care providers to provide a parent or legal guardian information on sleep, screen time, and nutrition; requiring the Department of Health to develop and make such information available for download by health care providers, etc.
Medical Malpractice Liability Coverage; Increasing the minimum amount of professional liability coverage certain physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are required to maintain as a condition of licensure, etc.
Criminal Justice Commission; Creating the commission within the Department of Corrections; specifying the purpose of the commission; providing for membership of the commission; specifying terms of commission members; requiring the commission to take specified actions; providing reporting requirements; authorizing the commission to take specified actions, 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.
