Fees/Bottled Water Companies/Department of Environmental Protection; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to charge bottled water companies a specified fee per gallon extracted; requiring the fees to be deposited into the Water Protection and Sustainability Program Trust Fund, etc.
Emergency Drills in Public Schools; Revising district school board duties relating to emergency drills for active shooter and hostage situations; expanding requirements for district school board procedures relating to drills for active shooter and hostage situations; requiring district school boards to establish procedures to provide advance notification of drills for active shooter and hostage situations to parents and to provide parents with an option to excuse their students from physical drills, etc.
Coverage for Epinephrine Injectors for Children; Defining the term “epinephrine injector”; requiring certain individual and group health insurance policies, respectively, to provide coverage for epinephrine injectors prescribed by the treating physician as medically necessary for an insured’s family member 18 years of age or younger; requiring certain health maintenance contracts to provide coverage for epinephrine injectors prescribed by the treating physician as medically necessary for a subscriber’s family member 18 years of age or younger, etc.
Education; Revising requirements for the annual report the governing body of a charter school must submit to its sponsor; adding additional private school requirements for the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; requiring, rather than authorizing, the Commissioner of Education to determine that a private school is ineligible to participate in such program under certain circumstances; requiring eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations to comply with specified statutes, etc.
Developmental Disabilities; Citing this act as "Lincoln’s Law"; revising the definition of the term “developmental disability”, etc.
Charter Schools; Requiring a charter school, in order to obtain approval, to demonstrate that it meets certain needs that the local school district does not or is unable to provide to students in that district, etc.
Drinking Water in Public Schools; Subject to legislative appropriation, requiring district boards to coordinate with district school boards to identify certain schools and to provide funding to such schools; requiring certain school districts to install filters that meet certain specifications on drinking water sources; authorizing district boards to request additional funding to compensate school district staff for the installation or replacement of filters, etc. APPROPRIATION: $3,000,000
Employment Practices; Creating the "Florida Family Leave Act"; requiring an employer to allow certain employees to take paid family leave to bond with a new child upon the child’s birth, adoption, or foster care placement; requiring that family leave be taken concurrently with any leave taken pursuant to federal family and medical leave provisions; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to create a poster and a model notice that specify family leave rights, etc.
Health Care Regulations; Establishing the Prescription Drug Affordability Commission within the Agency for Health Care Administration; requiring manufacturers to notify the commission of proposed price increases and introductory prices of prescription drugs under certain circumstances; revising provisions relating to individual health insurance coverage for preexisting conditions; prohibiting specified insurers from establishing, in their franchise health insurance policies, differentials in premium rates based on preexisting conditions, etc.
The Florida Aquarium; Recognizing the 25th anniversary of The Florida Aquarium on February 25, 2020, etc.
