Sen. Gayle Harrell

Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder; Requiring certain program participants at educator preparation institutes to complete the autism micro-credential; requiring each educator preparation institute to offer training on teaching students with certain disabilities; creating the Autism Educator Loan Forgiveness Program; providing requirements for teachers to receive an annual payment; revising core curricula for teacher preparation programs, etc.

Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances; Citing this act as the “Joe Casello Act”; prohibiting, beginning on a specified date, certain use and the sale, purchase, or distribution of aqueous film-forming foam in this state; prohibiting, beginning on a specified date, the possession and use of aqueous film-forming foam in this state; requiring certain public entities disposing of domestic wastewater biosolids and treated effluent to quarterly conduct specified samplings and submit the results to the department, etc.

Conservation Lands; Requiring the Division of State Lands to publish certain information on its website before the Acquisition and Restoration Council or the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund meets to review the proposed sale of conservation lands; requiring that certain parcels proposed for exchange be appraised in accordance with certain criteria; requiring the governing board of a water management district to publish certain information on its website before meeting to review the proposed sale or exchange of certain lands, etc.

Maddy summaryThis is a ceremonial Senate Resolution (SR 1764), not a bill with policy changes. It honors the YMCA for its 175th anniversary in the U.S. (founded 1851) and recognizes its historical community service, including founding Father's Day, pioneering childcare, inventing basketball, and providing pandemic support. The resolution expresses the Florida Senate's appreciation for the YMCA's mission to build healthy communities, welcoming spaces, and programs serving over 17 million people annually. It has no legal effect or new funding; it is purely a symbolic gesture of recognition.

Self-storage Spaces; Revising the notice requirements of owners of self-storage units in order to satisfy a lien on a tenant’s property; requiring that rental agreements for renters of self-storage units which are entered into on or after a specified date provide certain information in compliance with the Self-storage Facility Act; authorizing owners of a self-storage unit to send notice to certain tenants’ last known address to apprise such tenants of a specified right, etc.

OGSR/Parental Consent Requirements Before Terminating a Pregnancy; Amending provisions relating to an exemption from public records requirements for certain information that could identify a minor petitioning a court to waive parental consent requirements before terminating a pregnancy; deleting the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.

Mental Health; Citing this act as the “Tristin Murphy Act”; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc. APPROPRIATION: $794,880

Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children Program; Providing requirements for the annual assessment of the home health aide for medically fragile children program; revising the utilization cap of a Medicaid fee schedule; requiring a home health aide for medically fragile children who works more than 40 hours per week to provide specified justification; requiring the agency to seek federal approval and implement federal waivers and state plan amendments for specified purposes, etc.

Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc.; Requiring the board of directors of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc., rather than the Board of Governors, to authorize the creation of a subsidiary of the corporation; revising the composition of the board of directors of the corporation; authorizing subsidiaries of the corporation to enter into certain affiliation agreements, etc.

Health Care Patient Protection; Requiring hospital emergency departments to develop and implement policies and procedures, conduct training, record weights in a certain manner, designate a pediatric emergency care coordinator, and conduct specified assessments; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt certain rules for comprehensive emergency management plans; requiring the agency to collect and publish the results of specified assessments submitted by hospitals by specified dates, etc.