American Flamingo; Designating the American flamingo as the official state bird; providing that such designation supersedes the designation of the mockingbird, etc.
Health Care Practitioner Titles and Designations; Providing that, for specified purposes, the use of specified titles or designations in connection with one’s name constitutes the practice of medicine or the practice of osteopathic medicine; revising grounds for disciplinary action relating to a practitioner’s use of such titles or designations in identifying himself or herself to patients or in advertisements for health care services; requiring certain health care practitioners to prominently display a copy of their license in a conspicuous area of their practice, etc.
Child Protection Teams; Expanding the types of reports that the Department of Children and Families must refer to Child Protection Teams, etc.
Medicaid Managed Care Plan Performance Metrics; Requiring Medicaid managed care plans to submit certain performance metrics monthly to the Agency for Health Care Administration; requiring the agency to contract to develop and display on its public website a dashboard containing certain information; requiring the agency to create a quarterly report, beginning on a specified date, make it available to the public, and submit it to certain entities, etc.
Coordinated Systems of Care for Children; Defining the term “care coordinator”; requiring certain school districts to be guided by and adhere to a specified mental health and treatment support system for certain children; requiring school districts to contract with managing entities to provide care coordinators for certain students; requiring school districts to address certain recommendations, and meet specified performance outcomes, etc.
Health Care Services; Prohibiting a health plan from declining to participate in a certain process; requiring a health plan to pay a claimant the amount provided in the Agency for Health Care Administration’s final order within a specified timeframe; providing a financial penalty for failure to comply; requiring the agency to notify the appropriate licensure or certification entity under certain circumstances, etc.
Health Care Transparency; Requiring licensed nursing home facilities to report to the Agency for Health Care Administration any common ownership relationships they or their parent companies share with certain entities; requiring the agency to work with stakeholders to determine how to present such information on an easily accessible online dashboard; requiring the agency to submit annual reports on the success of the personal care attendant program to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
Specialty License Plates/General Aviation; Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a General Aviation license plate; providing for distribution and use of fees collected from the sale of the plate, etc.
Health Care Patient Protection; Adding additional disqualifying offenses to background screening requirements for certain persons in health care practice settings; defining the term “memory care provider”; requiring memory care providers to employ specified practices in the provision of memory care services; adding additional disqualifying offenses to level 2 background screening standards, etc.
Aviation; Beginning on a specified date, requiring the owner or lessee of a proposed vertiport to comply with a specified provision in obtaining certain approval and license or registration; requiring the Department of Transportation to conduct a final physical inspection of the vertiport to ensure compliance with specified requirements; providing duties of the department, within specified resources, with respect to vertiports, advanced air mobility, and other advances in aviation technology, etc.
