Sen. Jeff Brandes

Physician Certifications for the Medical Use of Marijuana; Deleting a requirement that qualified physicians be physically present in the same room as their patients when conducting an examination for physician certification for the medical use of marijuana; authorizing qualified physicians to conduct such examinations through telehealth, etc.

Virtual Learning; Revising the purpose of the Florida Virtual School to provide for the development and delivery of online distance and blended learning; revising the requirements of a report that the board of trustees of the Florida Virtual School must annually submit to certain entities, beginning with a specified school year; requiring students enrolled in the Florida Virtual School Justice Education Program to take specified examinations and assessments at institutions or facilities operated by, or under the supervision of, the Department of Corrections; requiring the Florida Virtual School to establish the Florida Virtual School Justice Education Program, beginning with a specified school year, etc.

Individual Wine Containers; Repealing a provision relating to the size limitation for individual wine containers, etc.

State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; Increasing the maximum amount of funds that may be deposited into the trust fund in a fiscal year; adding environmental health upgrades to Department of Corrections facilities as a permissible use for funds in the trust fund, etc.

Sentencing; Revising the required sentencing structure for prison releasee reoffenders upon proof from a state attorney which establishes that a defendant is a prison releasee reoffender; deleting a provision that prohibits a prison releasee reoffender from eligibility for any form of early release and that requires a prison releasee reoffender to serve 100 percent of the court-imposed sentence; defining a term for the purpose of establishing applicability of a specified provision; applying the revised sentencing structure to certain persons under specified circumstances, etc.

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Requiring, rather than authorizing, the corporation to use a single account under certain circumstances; requiring that policies assumed by the corporation from unsound insurers be charged a specified premium until certain conditions are met; providing certain exceptions, conditions, and requirements relating to such participation by a surplus lines insurer in the corporation’s depopulation, take-out, or keep-out programs; specifying that only the corporation’s transfer of a policy file to an insurer, as opposed to the transfer of any file, changes the file’s public record status, etc.

Ad Valorem Taxation; Providing for the periodic increase in the ad valorem taxation exemption on a homestead property’s assessed value that exceeds a specified amount, etc.

Certification for Prescriptive Authority; Requiring the Board of Psychology to certify certain psychologists to exercise prescriptive authority; authorizing certified psychologists to use their prescriptive authority in accordance with rules adopted by the board; requiring prescribing psychologists who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances to file specified information with the board within a specified timeframe; requiring the board to submit a list of prescribing psychologists, including specified information, to the Board of Pharmacy, etc.

Renewable Energy; Authorizing owners of commercial or industrial businesses, or third parties contracted by such owners, to install, maintain, and operate a renewable energy source device on or about the structure in which the business operates or on a property that the business owns or leases; authorizing owners or contracted third parties to sell electricity generated from the device to certain businesses regardless of whether the device is located in a utility’s service territory; exempting the sale of electricity produced by such devices from regulation, etc.

Fleet Management; Requiring the Department of Management Services to prepare an inventory of state-owned motor vehicles, maintenance facilities, and fuel depots; requiring the department to submit the inventory to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; creating the Fleet Operations Management Pilot Program within the department; requiring the department to competitively procure and contract with a vendor or contractor for privatizing state-owned motor vehicles, motor vehicle acquisitions and disposition, maintenance facilities, and fuel operations for state entities, etc.