Sen. Darryl Rouson

Public Records/Victims of Florida Reform School Abuse; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information in applications submitted to the Department of State by persons seeking certification as victims of Florida reform school abuse; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Florida Seal of Fine Arts Program; Establishing the Florida Seal of Fine Arts Program within the Department of Education; providing the purpose of the program; specifying eligibility requirements for the awarding of a Seal of Fine Arts; requiring the Commissioner of Education and school districts to perform specified duties to administer the program; prohibiting a school district or the Department of Education from charging a fee for the seal; requiring the state board to adopt rules, etc.

Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care; Creating the Task Force on the Monitoring of Children in Out-of-Home Care for specified purposes; authorizing the task force to conduct meetings through teleconferences; requiring monthly reports to the secretary of the Department of Children and Families; requiring the task force to annually submit certain recommendations to the Governor and Legislature, etc.

Council on the Discretionary Imposition of Criminal Justice and Traffic Fines and Fees; Establishing the council adjunct to the Department of Legal Affairs; requiring the department to provide administrative support to the council; specifying application of law governing advisory bodies; prescribing the composition of the council; providing duties of the council; providing for future repeal, etc.

Insurance Coverage Parity for Mental, Nervous, and Substance Use Disorders; Requiring Medicaid managed care plans to submit an annual report to the Agency for Health Care Administration relating to parity between mental or nervous disorder and substance use disorder benefits and medical and surgical benefits; requiring certain entities transacting individual or group health insurance or providing prepaid health care to comply with specified federal provisions that prohibit the imposition of less favorable benefit limitations on mental or nervous disorder and substance use disorder benefits than on medical and surgical benefits, etc.

Residential Tenancies; Requiring that courts in a judicial circuit in which a residential eviction mediation program has been established refer matters involving a residential eviction to mediation; restricting availability of a specified summary procedure in actions where a landlord is seeking to recover possession of a residential unit; removing the requirement that a residential tenant defending against a landlord’s action for possession pay accrued rent to the registry of the court, etc.

Agriculture and Nutrition; Declaring that it is a state goal that by a specified date, a percentage of food commodities purchased by state agencies, Florida College System institutions, and state universities will be grown or produced in this state; requiring such agencies, institutions, and universities to give preference to food commodities grown or produced in this state in certain purchasing agreements, state term contracts, or contracts for the purchase of food commodities, etc. APPROPRIATION: $4,606,801

Required Notice to Homeowners in Mortgage Foreclosure Proceedings; Requiring foreclosing mortgagees, or a foreclosing mortgagee’s attorney, to provide certain notice to mortgagors in actions involving residential real property; providing requirements and a form for such notice; providing that failure to comply with the requirement does not have specified effects, etc.

Cardiovascular Emergency Protocols and Training; Requiring the Department of Health to send a list of certain providers of adult cardiovascular services to the medical directors of licensed emergency medical services providers by a specified date each year; requiring the department to develop a sample heart attack-triage assessment tool; requiring the medical director of each licensed emergency medical services provider to develop and implement certain protocols for heart attack patients; requiring certain 911 public safety telecommunicators to receive biennial telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, 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 for the Lakeland Police Department; providing a limitation on the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $312,500