Sen. Gayle Harrell

Medical Marijuana Edibles; Revising the packaging and labeling requirements for medical marijuana edibles, etc.

Animal Cremation; Creating "Sevilla’s Law"; requiring a provider of companion animal cremation services to provide certain individuals and entities with a written description of the services the provider offers; requiring the written description to include a detailed explanation of each service offered; requiring certain providers to include a certification with the returned animal’s cremation remains; providing circumstances under which a person commits an unfair or deceptive act or practice or an unfair method of competition in violation of certain provisions, etc.

Conversion Charter Schools; Revising the requirements for an application for a conversion charter school; authorizing municipalities to apply for the conversion of specified public schools to charter schools; authorizing the Charter School Review Commission to solicit and review applications for conversion charter schools, etc.

Traveling Across County Lines to Commit Criminal Offenses; Deleting the definition of the term “burglary”; providing for reclassification of grand theft or forcible felony offenses if the person who commits the offense travels with the intent to commit the offense in a county other than the person’s county of residence, etc.

Organ Donation; Requiring the state and the political subdivisions thereof to provide administrative leave to their employees for organ donation; defining the term “employee organ donation expenses”; authorizing a tax credit for qualified businesses for such expenses; requiring that information on organ donation be included in specified driver education programs; prohibiting a health insurance policy from limiting or excluding coverage solely on the basis that an insured is a living organ donor, etc.

Step-therapy Protocols; Defining the term “serious mental illness”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.

Placement of Surrendered Newborn Infants; Defining the term “community-based care lead agency”; requiring community-based care lead agencies to establish and maintain a specified registry; prohibiting the community-based care lead agency from transferring certain costs to prospective adoptive parents; requiring licensed child-placing agencies that take custody of surrendered newborn infants to report certain information; providing requirements for the hospital once it takes physical custody of a surrendered newborn infant, etc.

Community-based Mobile Crisis Intervention Services; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide coverage for community-based mobile crisis intervention services for Medicaid recipients, subject to the availability of funds and specified limitations or directions; requiring the agency to perform certain duties by a specified date, including seeking federal approval and waivers for such coverage, etc.

Nursing Education Programs; Revising application requirements for nursing education program approval; revising requirements for annual reports approved programs are required to submit to the board; authorizing agents of the Department of Health to conduct onsite evaluations and inspections of approved and accredited nursing education programs; deleting a provision authorizing approved nursing education programs to request an extension to meet the board’s accreditation requirements, etc.

Self-service Storage Facility Liens; Revising written notice requirements relating to the satisfaction of an owner’s lien; revising publication requirements relating to advertising the sale or other disposition of self-service storage facilities; requiring that rental agreements authorize tenants to designate an optional alternate contact for purposes of providing specified notice; requiring rental agreements to include a warning that states, if the property is advertised for sale or other disposition, a description of the property will be published in the advertisement, etc.