Sen. Debbie Mayfield

Environmental Resource Management; Citing this act as the “Clean Waterways Act”; requiring the Department of Health to provide a specified report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; requiring the Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Protection to submit to the Governor and the Legislature, by a specified date, certain recommendations relating to the transfer of the Onsite Sewage Program; directing water management districts to submit consolidated annual reports to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research; removing provisions requiring certain onsite sewage treatment and disposal system research projects to be approved by a Department of Health technical review and advisory panel, etc.

Fish and Wildlife Activities; Prohibiting certain harassment of hunters, trappers, and fishers within or on public lands or publicly or privately owned wildlife and fish management areas, or in or on public waters; authorizing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to designate additional annual free freshwater and saltwater fishing days; prohibiting the keeping, possessing, importing, selling, bartering, trading, or breeding of certain species except for educational, research, or eradication or control purposes; including green iguanas and species of the genera Salvator and Tupinambis in such prohibition, etc.

Home Medical Equipment Providers; Exempting allopathic, osteopathic, and chiropractic physicians who sell or rent electrostimulation medical equipment and supplies in the course of their practice from certain licensure requirements, etc.

Intercollegiate Athlete Compensation and Rights; Authorizing certain intercollegiate athletes to earn compensation for the use of their names, images, or likenesses; prohibiting a postsecondary educational institution and other entities, institutions, and their employees from compensating intercollegiate athletes or prospective intercollegiate athletes for the use of their names, images, or likenesses; prohibiting the revocation or reduction of certain aid as a result of intercollegiate athletes earning certain compensation or obtaining specified representation; providing requirements for certain athlete agents, etc.

County Boundaries; Revising county boundaries, etc.

State Funds; Exempting the State Housing Trust Fund and the Local Government Housing Trust Fund from a provision authorizing the Legislature, in the General Appropriations Act, to transfer unappropriated cash balances from specified trust funds to the Budget Stabilization Fund and the General Revenue Fund, etc.

Prescription Drug Coverage; Requiring individual and group health insurers to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes to current and prospective insureds and the insureds’ treating physicians; specifying requirements for a notice of medical necessity submitted by the treating physician; requiring insurers to apply certain reductions in out-of-pocket expenses for prescription drugs toward an insured’s cost-sharing obligation; requiring health maintenance organizations to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes to current and prospective subscribers and the subscribers’ treating physicians, etc.

Hunting and Fishing Sales Tax Holiday; Providing an exemption from the sales and use tax for the retail sale of firearms, firearm ammunition, camping tents, and fishing supplies during a specified timeframe; defining the terms “firearms” and “fishing supplies”; specifying locations where the exemptions do not apply, etc. APPROPRIATION: $237,000

Regulation of Smoking; Authorizing municipalities and counties to further restrict smoking within the boundaries of certain public parks, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations/A.B. Michael Bridges; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.