Statewide Provider and Health Plan Claim Dispute Resolution Program; Specifying additional circumstances under which a disputed claim is not subject to review under the statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program, etc.
Family Law; Requiring that certain time-sharing matters be accorded priority on a court’s calendar; providing procedural requirements for evidentiary hearings on motions seeking to establish temporary parental responsibility and time-sharing and on motions to enforce compliance with existing time-sharing orders; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to prepare and publish on its website a publicly accessible annual report for certain evidentiary hearings held in each judicial circuit; requiring, rather than authorizing, a court to make a determination of appropriate parenting plans in certain proceedings, etc.
Surrogacy and Assisted Reproduction; Providing that a preplanned adoption arrangement may not authorize certain actions under certain circumstances; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health, to adopt certain rules for donor banks and fertility clinics by a specified date; requiring surrogacy agencies to require all participants to undergo certain mental health evaluations; requiring surrogacy agencies to obtain level 2 security background investigations for participants from the Department of Children and Families through the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, etc.
Foreign Influence; Citing this act as the “Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act”; prohibiting preplanned adoption agreements unless certain conditions are met; prohibiting specified persons from soliciting or accepting anything of value from a designated foreign terrorist organization, a foreign country of concern, or persons or entities representing such organizations or countries; authorizing any appropriate tax collector to revoke or refuse to renew business tax receipts of specified individuals, businesses, or entities; prohibiting a governmental entity from knowingly entering into certain contracts with foreign sources of concern; removing the Florida-China Institute from the list of linkage institutes, etc.
Gubernatorial Transition; Requiring the Governor to designate a transition liaison within the Executive Office of the Governor within a specified timeframe; requiring the head of each state agency to designate an agency transition liaison within a specified timeframe; requiring the Department of Management Services and each state agency to provide certain temporary office facilities to certain persons during the transition period; requiring that the Governor-elect and his or her staff be granted access to all state agency records upon request, etc.
Patient Access to Records; Requiring mental health service providers to furnish clinical records in accordance with specified requirements and within a specified timeframe after receiving a written request for such records; revising provisions related to the release of patient records by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to conform to changes made by the act; requiring substance abuse service providers to furnish clinical records in accordance with specified requirements and within a specified timeframe after receiving a written request; revising the timeframe within which a nursing home facility must provide access to, and copies of, resident records after receiving a request for such records, etc.
Drug Prices and Coverage; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to contract with an entity to designate reference price source countries and analyze certain data; requiring the agency to publish annually prescription drug reference prices; prohibiting pharmacies from charging cash-paying customers more than the reference prices for prescribed drugs and biological products; requiring prescription drug manufacturer permitholders to annually report to the agency international drug price data beginning on a specified date; requiring certain health insurers to limit covered prescription drug reimbursement to reference prices, etc.
Enforcement of Protections for Minors; Providing criminal penalties for health care practitioners who willfully or actively aid or abet another in a violation of specified provisions; clarifying that a private cause of action exists to recover damages for personal injury or death resulting from a violation of a specified provision; providing that an individual may recover all economic and noneconomic damages for injuries sustained before or after turning 18 years of age which result from such violation; creating a private cause of action to recover damages against certain public employees and health care practitioners for violations of specified provisions, etc.
Disclosure of Estimated Ad Valorem Taxes; Defining the terms “listing platform” and “property”; requiring that certain property listings include estimated ad valorem taxes; requiring the Department of Revenue to maintain on its website a table of links to each county’s property appraiser’s homepage and tax estimator; requiring the department to develop a formula that may be used by listing platforms to calculate the estimated ad valorem taxes; requiring the department to annually develop a countywide aggregate average millage rate for each county for use by listing platforms, etc.
Informed Consent for Assisted Reproductive Technology; Revising requirements for certain written disposition agreements required between a commissioning couple and a treating physician; prohibiting health care providers from performing in vitro fertilization without first obtaining informed consent from the commissioning couple; prohibiting health care providers from discarding embryos for nonpayment unless certain conditions are met; requiring health care providers to provide informed consent in the patients’ primary language or with a qualified interpreter, etc.
