Sen. Gayle Harrell

Division of State Technology; Requiring the Department of Management Services to administer the Data Innovation Program through the division; establishing the Data Innovation Program within the division; specifying requirements for the division for data governance across state agencies; requiring the division to develop and conduct data interoperability pilot programs with the Agency for Health Care Administration, the Department of Health, and the Department of Children and Families by a specified date, etc.

Health Care Studies; Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct analyses of other states’ use of the combined recovery care center and ambulatory surgical center model and the advanced birthing center model; requiring the office to contract with a certain entity to conduct an analysis of the impact of licensing specialty hospitals in this state and in other states, etc.

Health Insurance Prior Authorization; 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; requiring health insurers to provide and disclose procedures for insureds to request exceptions to step-therapy protocols; prohibiting health insurers, under certain circumstances, from retroactively denying a claim at any time because of insured ineligibility, etc.

Indian River Lagoon State Matching Grant Program; Providing that certain projects identified in a specified Indian River Lagoon Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan are eligible for state funding consideration; directing the Department of Environmental Protection to coordinate with the South Florida Water Management District and the St. Johns River Water Management District to identify projects and grant recipients and to submit an annual report to the Governor, the Legislature, and specified persons, etc.

Prescription Drug Benefits; Citing this act as the “Prescription Drug Cost Reduction Act”; providing that pharmacy benefit managers have a fiduciary duty and obligation to specified individuals and entities; requiring group health plans, health insurers, and certain pharmacy benefit managers to base plan beneficiaries’ and insureds’ coinsurance obligations for certain prescription drugs on specified drug prices; providing circumstances under which contracts between health insurers or health maintenance organizations and pharmacy benefit managers are void and against the public policy, etc.

Land Acquisition Trust Fund; Providing an appropriation for certain projects related to the Indian River Lagoon Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to make grants for such projects; providing for a specified local match for such grants, etc.

Regional Perinatal Intensive Care Centers; Authorizing the Department of Health to designate regional perinatal intensive care centers; providing that designation by the department is required for participation in the regional perinatal intensive care centers program; specifying standards that must be included in department rules relating to the designation, development, and operation of a regional perinatal intensive care center; specifying reimbursement parameters for certain services provided in a regional perinatal intensive care center setting, etc.

Temporary Care of a Child; Creating the "Children’s Promise Act"; requiring a certain organization to provide the Department of Revenue with an annual written certification demonstrating its status as an eligible charitable organization for certain purposes; providing the tax credit cap amount for a specified state fiscal year; authorizing a taxpayer to submit an application to the department requesting certain tax credits; authorizing qualified nonprofit organizations to establish programs to provide temporary respite care for children; providing registration and recordkeeping requirements for such organizations and the Department of Children and Families, etc.

Council on Physician Assistants; Revising requirements relating to the Council on Physician Assistants membership, etc.

Certification of Developmental Disabilities Services Personnel; Beginning on a specified date, requiring that all support coordinators and certain direct service providers obtain and maintain certification by a third-party credentialing entity; requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to approve one or more third-party credentialing entities; providing for the review and appeal of decisions made by third-party credentialing entities, etc.