Sen. Gayle Harrell

Public Records/Agency for Health Care Administration; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the personal identifying and location information of certain current or former personnel of the Agency for Health Care Administration and the names and personal identifying and location information of the spouses and children of such personnel; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing for retroactive application of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Nursing Education Programs; Requiring the Department of Health to issue provisional licenses to graduate licensed practical nurses and graduate registered nurses under the supervision of clinical preceptors; revising application requirements for nursing education program approval; requiring the Florida Center for Nursing to develop graduate nursing preceptorship standards by a specified date; defining the term “adverse action”; revising requirements for annual reports approved programs are required to submit to the board, etc.

Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Compact; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain meetings or portions of certain meetings of the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission or its executive committee or other committees; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to, within a specified timeframe, seek federal approval as needed to provide coverage of continuous glucose monitors and related supplies as a durable medical equipment benefit under the Medicaid program; requiring the agency to implement these changes upon receiving any necessary federal approval, etc.

Tax of Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing Aircraft; Exempting from the state sales tax the sale of electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft by a manufacturer to an operator, 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; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.

Animal Cremation; Creating "Sevilla’s Law"; requiring a provider of companion animal cremation services to provide certain individuals and entities with a written description of the services the provider offers; providing that the written description may not contain false or misleading information; providing that certain acts are unlawful; providing civil penalties for initial and subsequent offenses, etc.

Certified Recovery Residences; Revising the definition of the term “certified recovery residence”; requiring a credentialing entity to revoke a certified residence’s certificate of compliance if the certified recovery residence willfully, knowingly, or intentionally provides false or misleading information to the credentialing entity, etc.

Medicaid Oversight; Establishing the Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight for specified purposes; requiring the Auditor General and the Agency for Health Care Administration to enter into a data sharing agreement by a specified date; providing that the committee must be given access to certain records, papers, and documents, etc.

Public Records and Meetings/Interstate Compact for School Psychologists; Providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for certain portions of meetings of the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists Commission and its executive committee; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during exempt portions of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.