Damages Recoverable by Parents of an Adult Child in Medical Negligence Actions; Deleting a provision prohibiting parents of an adult child from recovering damages for mental pain and suffering in a medical negligence suit, etc.
Cardiac Screening for Newborns; Revising components that are included in the postpartum evaluation and follow-up care birth centers are required to provide to include a cardiac screening of the newborn; requiring attending health care providers at home births to provide or coordinate the referral for a newborn cardiovascular screening; requiring the newborn’s primary care provider to provide or coordinate the referral for the screening if a health care provider does not attend the home birth; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to provide a postpartum evaluation that includes the cardiovascular screening of each newborn, etc.
Relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell/South Broward Hospital District; Providing for the relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; providing an appropriation to compensate Latricia Mitchell and Jerald Mitchell, individually and as legal guardians of Jamiyah Mitchell, for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of the South Broward Hospital District; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $795,000
Boating and Vessel Safety; Requiring certain boating safety education courses and temporary certificate examinations to include specified components; directing the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to include such components in boating safety education campaigns and certain educational materials; requiring instructors of water sports and activities to wear engine cutoff switches under certain conditions, etc.
School Readiness Program Funding; Deleting a requirement that all state, federal, and local matching funds provided to an early learning coalition for certain purposes be used for implementation of its approved school readiness plan; requiring the Division of Early Learning within the Department of Education to conduct an allocation conference; requiring conference principals to discuss and agree to all conventions and calculation methods to be used to calculate the school readiness funding formula for the early learning coalitions for the fiscal year for which the appropriations are made, etc.
Sales Tax Holiday for Disaster Preparedness Supplies; Providing exemptions from the sales and use tax for specified disaster preparedness supplies during specified timeframes; defining the term “impact-resistant”; requiring purchasers of certain items to furnish a specified affidavit and information to the selling dealer; providing a criminal penalty for furnishing a false affidavit with certain intent; specifying locations where the exemptions do not apply, etc.
Dependent Eligibility for State Group Health Insurance Enrollment; Designating the Department of Management Services, rather than the Division of State Group Insurance, as the entity that contracts for dependent eligibility services in the state group insurance program; authorizing the department or the contractor providing dependent eligibility verification services to require certain information from subscribers, etc.
Taxation; Exempting federal loans related to a state of emergency from the excise tax imposed on documents; increasing the combined total amount of credits which may be granted to business enterprises during any calendar year, etc.
Tax on the Rental or Lease of Real Property; Repealing a provision relating to the tax on the rental or license fee for use of real property; repealing a provision relating to tax credits for contributions to eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations, etc.
Personal Information Protection; Citing this act as the "Personal Privacy Protection Act"; prohibiting a public agency from requiring, publicly disclosing, or requesting specified personal information; providing construction and applicability; providing for the right of civil action and award of damages; providing penalties, etc.
