Sen. Janet Cruz

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

State University Student Fee Waivers; Requiring state universities to waive specified fees for graduate students who meet a specified full-time equivalent appointment requirement, etc.

Upgrades to Education Facilities as Emergency Shelters; Exempting costs of less than $2 million associated with certain upgrades to education facilities from being included in certain cost per student station calculations; requiring costs associated with certain upgrades to be consistent with prevailing market costs in the area where the education facility is located, etc.

COVID-19 Eviction Information; Prohibiting consumer reporting agencies or companies that provide tenant screening services from including certain evictions and information relating to such evictions in specified reports, etc.

Entertainment Industry; Creating the Targeted High Wage Production Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity under the supervision of the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced in this state meet specified criteria to be eligible for tax credit awards; requiring a certified project to make a good faith effort to use existing providers of infrastructure or equipment in this state and to employ residents of this state; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria; requiring the department to disqualify a project under certain circumstances, etc.

Emergency Drills in Public Schools; Revising district school board duties relating to fire drills and emergency drills; expanding requirements for district school board procedures relating to drills for active assailant and hostage situations; requiring district school boards to establish procedures to provide advance notification of drills for active assailant and hostage situations to parents and to provide parents with an option to excuse their students from drills requiring evacuation from a building; requiring such procedures to address the needs of exceptional education students, etc.

Antiretroviral Drugs; Authorizing pharmacists to order and dispense HIV preexposure and postexposure prophylaxis drugs without a prescription under certain circumstances; requiring pharmacists to complete specified training before ordering or dispensing such drugs without a prescription; authorizing pharmacists to order and dispense a specified supply of preexposure prophylaxis or a full course of postexposure prophylaxis, as applicable, to patients without prescriptions if certain conditions are met, etc.

Prescription Insulin Drugs; Requiring individual and group health insurance policies, respectively, to cap an insured’s monthly cost-sharing obligation for covered prescription insulin drugs at a specified amount; providing that coverage for prescription insulin drugs may not be subject to a deductible; requiring health benefit plans that cover small employers to comply with prescription insulin drug cost-sharing requirements; requiring health maintenance contracts to cap a subscriber’s monthly cost-sharing obligation for covered prescription insulin drugs at a specified amount, etc.

Unlawful Employment Practices; Revising the unlawful employment practices in the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992 to include discriminatory practices relating to military status, etc.

Lactation Space; Requiring at least one lactation space to be provided in each county courthouse; providing requirements for the lactation space; authorizing the use of state or private funds to provide lactation space in appellate courthouses, etc.