Electronic Payment of Public Records Fees; Requiring an agency subject to ch. 119, F.S., to provide an electronic option for payment of fees associated with a public records request, etc.
Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program; Creating the Community Violence Intervention and Prevention Grant Program within the Department of Children and Families; authorizing the department to award grants, subject to legislative appropriation, to certain organizations and entities; prohibiting the department from requiring grant recipients to participate in certain activities as a condition of receiving a grant; prohibiting grant funds from reverting to the general budget of specified entities, etc.
Fees/Professional Art Therapist License; Requiring an applicant for a professional art therapist license or an art therapist intern registration to pay a nonrefundable application fee set by rule of the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling; providing for fees for annual license and registration renewal, inactive licenses, and license reactivation, etc.
Medical Marijuana Treatment Center Licenses; Requiring the Department of Health to award a medical marijuana treatment center license to an applicant from a certain recognized member class if specified conditions are met; providing that a license awarded to such applicant be deducted from the number of licenses to be issued pursuant to a specified calculation, etc.
Relief of Reginald Jackson by the City of Lakeland; Providing for the relief of Reginald Jackson by the City of Lakeland; providing an appropriation to compensate Reginald Jackson for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of Mike Cochran, a police officer with the Lakeland Police Department; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $312,500
Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Revising a requirement for the Department of Children and Families relating to certain performance outcomes and measures; requiring managing entities to lead the implementation of a coordinated system of care; revising department requirements for, and authorizations relating to, contracting with managing entities; revising requirements relating to the acute care services utilization database, etc.
Background Screenings for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Provider Personnel; Providing requirements for mental health personnel applying for an exemption from disqualification; requiring the Department of Children and Families or the Agency for Health Care Administration to notify an applicant who submits an incomplete application within a specified timeframe; requiring the department or the agency to grant or deny an exemption request within a specified timeframe; revising the burden of proof for peer specialists seeking an exemption from employment disqualification, etc.
Heat Illness Prevention; Requiring certain employers to implement an outdoor heat exposure safety program that has been approved by specified agencies; specifying requirements for the safety program; providing responsibilities for certain employers and employees; providing an exception; requiring specified annual training on heat illness and providing requirements for such training, etc.
Special Risk Class Retirement Date; Revising the definition of “normal retirement date”; decreasing the age and years of service needed to reach the normal retirement date for certain members; authorizing certain members of the Special Risk Class to apply to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within a specified time period; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Upgrades to Education Facilities as Emergency Shelters; Exempting costs not exceeding a specified sum associated with certain upgrades to education facilities from being included in certain cost per student station calculations; specifying eligible upgrades; requiring costs associated with certain upgrades to be consistent with prevailing market costs in the area in which the education facility is located, etc.
