Sen. Gayle Harrell

School Safety; Revising parent, guardian, or caregiver notification requirements that must be met before an involuntary examination of a minor; requiring a principal or his or her designee who successfully notifies any known emergency contact to share only the information necessary to alert such contact that the parent or caregiver must be contacted; requiring codes of student conduct to include provisions relating to civil citation or similar prearrest diversion programs for specified purposes; revising training requirements for school safety officers, etc.

Restitution; Providing for the purposes of restitution in a criminal proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances; providing for the purposes of restitution in a delinquency proceeding; specifying the standards for valuation of a restitution order; authorizing a court to consider hearsay evidence regarding valuation of a restitution award under certain circumstances, etc.

Highway Projects; Repealing provisions relating to applications for funding for technical assistance relating to areas in and around a proposed multiuse corridor interchange; requiring that $35 million transferred to Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise be used for a specified purpose beginning in a specified fiscal year and annually for up to 30 years thereafter; requiring that certain increased revenues be used to fund specified projects beginning in a specified fiscal year and annually thereafter; requiring the department, in coordination with the Florida Turnpike Enterprise, to evaluate certain roadways for development of specific controlled access facilities and to include such projects in the work program, etc.

Substance Abuse Services; Providing criminal penalties for making certain false representations or omissions of material facts when applying for service provider licenses; requiring the Department of Children and Families to suspend a service provider’s license under certain circumstances; expanding the applicability of certain exemptions for disqualification to applications for certification of a recovery residence or a recovery residence administrator, respectively; specifying that certain dwellings converted to recovery residences do not have a change of occupancy under the Florida Building Code due to such conversion, etc.

Dispensing Medicinal Drugs; Authorizing certain hospitals to dispense supplies of prescribed medicinal drugs in a specified amount to emergency department patients or inpatients upon discharge under certain circumstances; authorizing a greater specified supply of medicinal drugs to be prescribed and dispensed in areas in which a state of emergency has been declared and is in effect; authorizing a prescriber to provide a patient with a prescription for medicinal drugs beyond the initial prescription period under certain circumstances, etc.

Payment of Health Insurance Claims; Prohibiting health insurers, at any time, from retroactively denying a claim because of the ineligibility of the insured if the insurer verified the insured’s eligibility at the time of treatment or provided an authorization number; prohibiting health maintenance organizations, at any time, from retroactively denying a claim because of the ineligibility of the subscriber if the health maintenance organization verified the subscriber’s eligibility at the time of treatment or provided an authorization number, etc.

Transportation Facility Designations; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.

Transportation; Requiring drivers to change lanes when approaching a road and bridge maintenance or construction vehicle displaying warning lights on the roadside; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to conduct compliance reviews for a specified purpose; authorizing the department to conduct investigations and examinations relating to violations of provisions relating to title certificates; prohibiting the Central Florida Expressway Authority from constructing any extensions, additions, or improvements to the Central Florida Expressway System in Lake County without prior consultation with, rather than consent of, the Secretary of Transportation, etc.

Pediatric Cardiac Care; Revising requirements for members of the pediatric cardiac technical advisory panel; requiring the panel’s chair and vice chair, in consultation with the Agency for Health Care Administration, to develop panel meeting agendas; extending sovereign immunity to apply to all individuals who are members of a site visit review team; requiring pediatric cardiac programs to include certain cases in the program’s required surgical volume; authorizing the Secretary for Health Care Administration to accept or modify the panel’s recommendations and requiring enforcement of the agency’s standards accordingly, etc.

Health Insurance Coverage for Cancer Treatment; Defining the terms “associated condition” and “health care provider”; prohibiting health maintenance organizations from excluding coverage for certain cancer treatment drugs; prohibiting health insurers and health maintenance organizations from requiring, before providing prescription drug coverage for the treatment of stage 4 metastatic cancer and associated conditions, that treatment has failed with a different drug, etc.