Florida First Production Partnership Pilot Program; Creating the program within the Department of Economic Opportunity; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced in this state meet specified criteria to be eligible for rebates; requiring the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment to set application windows; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria; requiring certified projects to allow certain persons to visit the production site upon request of the commissioner and after providing the commissioner with reasonable notice; providing for liability and imposing civil penalties for an applicant that submits fraudulent information, etc. APPROPRIATION: $80,000,000
Sponsored bills
Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking/Department of Legal Affairs; Creating the Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking within the Department of Legal Affairs; providing for the funding sources and purposes of the trust fund; providing for future review and termination or re-creation of the trust fund, etc.
Health Insurance Cost Sharing; Requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified group health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds’ cost-sharing requirements; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds’ total contributions to cost-sharing requirements, 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, etc.
Human Trafficking; Revising definitions and defining terms; revising criminal penalties to include fines of certain amounts for violations of specified offenses; requiring the Department of Education and Department of Health, in conjunction with the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking, to establish an awareness training program and community partnership on human trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and child trafficking; requiring each state attorney to ensure prosecutors receive certain mandatory semiannual educational training, etc.
Special Risk Class Retirement Date; Revising the definition of “normal retirement date”; decreasing the age and years of service needed to reach the normal retirement date for certain members; authorizing certain members of the Special Risk Class to apply to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within a specified time period; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.
Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking; Specifying the authorized uses of funds from the Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, etc.
Home Health Aides for Medically Fragile Children; Requiring home health agencies to ensure that any delegation of tasks to home health aides for medically fragile children meets specified requirements; establishing the home health aides for medically fragile children program for specified purposes; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Board of Nursing, to approve training programs for home health aides for medically fragile children; authorizing home health aides for medically fragile children to administer certain medications under certain circumstances, etc. APPROPRIATION: $472,317
Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and their Spouses; Requiring the Economic Development Programs Evaluation to include a periodic analysis of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; revising the duties of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., respectively, to include the provision of certain assistance to veterans’ spouses; requiring the Department of Health to waive certain fees for veterans and their spouses under certain circumstances; establishing the Office of Veteran Licensure Services within the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, etc. APPROPRIATION: $399,565
Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; Enacting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; providing for recognition of psychologist licenses in compact states; providing that, while authority over a psychologist’s license remains with the home state, receiving states and distant states may define the scope of and act on a psychologist’s authority to practice in the receiving or distant state, as applicable, under the compact; requiring the Department of Health to report certain investigative information to the coordinated licensure information system, etc.