Pinellas County Schools’ Journeys in Journalism Program; Recognizing and commending Pinellas County Schools’ Journeys in Journalism program on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, etc.
Specific Medical Diagnoses in Child Protective Investigations; Providing an exception to the requirement that the Department of Children and Families immediately forward certain allegations to a law enforcement agency; requiring a child protective investigator to inform the subject of an investigation of a certain duty; requiring Child Protection Teams to consult with a licensed physician or advanced practice registered nurse with specified pediatric experience when evaluating certain reports; authorizing a parent or legal custodian of a child who is the subject of certain orders to request specified medical examinations of the child within a specified timeframe, etc.
Uterine Fibroid Research Database; Deleting a prohibition on the inclusion of personal identifying information in the uterine fibroid research database, etc.
Virtual Currency Kiosks; Revising the definition of the term “money services business”; revising the requirements for certain rules adopted by the Financial Services Commission; revising the actions by money services businesses, authorized vendors, or affiliated parties which constitute grounds for disciplinary action; prohibiting persons from engaging in certain business unless they are registered or exempt from registration; prohibiting a virtual currency kiosk business from operating in this state without registering or renewing its registration, etc.
Relief of Heriberto A. Sanchez-Mayen by the City of St. Petersburg; Providing for the relief of Heriberto A. Sanchez-Mayen by the City of St. Petersburg; providing for an appropriation to compensate Mr. Sanchez-Mayen for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of the City of St. Petersburg; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $2,300,000
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to require certain providers to use a specified assessment tool; requiring facilities to update treatment plans within specified timeframes; requiring use of a specified assessment tool; providing an exception; requiring the Criminal Justice, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse Technical Assistance Center at the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute at the University of South Florida to disseminate among grantees certain evidence-based practices and best practices, etc.
Certified Recovery Residences; Requiring, by a specified date, the governing body of each county or municipality to adopt an ordinance to establish procedures for the review and approval of certified recovery residences; prohibiting the ordinance from requiring public hearings beyond the minimum required by law; providing that the personnel-to-resident ratio for a certified recovery residence must be met only when the residents are at the residence, etc.
Mental Health; Citing this act as the “Tristin Murphy Act”; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc. APPROPRIATION: $794,880
Beaches; Repealing a provision relating to the establishment of recreational customary use of beaches; requiring the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to adopt the erosion control line by resolution in certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to proceed with certain beach restoration projects, etc.
Public Records; Revising the definition of the term “actual cost of duplication”; providing that it is a violation of ch. 119, F.S., to fail to acknowledge a public record request promptly and in good faith; prohibiting an agency from asserting that a record was exempt or confidential and exempt under specified circumstances; defining the term “any electronic medium stored, maintained, or used by an agency”; providing a civil penalty for persons who violate provisions related to accessing public records, etc.
