Sen. Shev Jones

Property Insurance; Creating the Property Insurance Commission; providing for the election of the Commissioner of Insurance Regulation; prohibiting the commissioner from engaging in certain activities or employment for a specified period after leaving office; prohibiting property insurers from claiming insolvency under specified circumstances; requiring residential property insurers to release specified information to insureds upon request, etc. APPROPRIATION: $300,000,000

Acceptance of Cash Payments by Businesses; Requiring certain businesses to accept cash payments for certain transactions; authorizing a business to satisfy such requirements by placing a cash-to-card kiosk at the business location for customers to make payments; prohibiting such businesses from charging a fee or placing conditions on acceptance of such cash payments, etc.

Healthy Food Financing Initiative Program; Providing program eligibility requirements for nonprofit organizations and revising eligibility requirements for community development financial institutions; revising requirements for program applicants and projects; revising the purposes for which project funding may be used; requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to review the program and collected data after a specified timeframe and provide the Legislature with a specified report, etc.

Restoration of Voting Rights Information on Sentencing Scoresheets; Specifying information to be provided on sentencing scoresheets concerning restoration of voting rights; requiring that a scoresheet be provided to a defendant before a sentence is imposed, etc.

Community Violence Task Force; Creating the task force within the Department of Law Enforcement; providing for membership, duties, and meetings of the task force; authorizing the task force to receive exempt or confidential and exempt information and specifying that the information maintains such status, etc.

Health Care Services; Revising the definitions of the terms “health insurer” as “utilization review entity”; requiring utilization review entities to establish and offer a prior authorization process for accepting electronic prior authorization requests by a specified date; prohibiting payment adjudicators from downcoding health care services under certain circumstances; requiring payment adjudicators to provide certain information prior to making their initial payment or notice of denial of payment, etc.

Health Care Freedom Act; Citing this act as the "Health Care Freedom Act"; repealing provisions relating to the prohibited use of state funds for travel to another state for purpose of abortion services, the prohibited use of state funds for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures, and the right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors, respectively; requiring a covered entity to adopt a policy relating to providing notice of its refused services by a specified date; repealing provisions relating to termination of pregnancies, powers of the Agency for Health Care Administration, and the use of telehealth to provide services, respectively, etc.

Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates; Requiring a municipality to charge customers receiving its utility services in another municipality the same rates, fees, and charges as it charges consumers within its municipal boundaries under certain circumstances, etc.

Florida A&M University Rattlers; Recognizing and honoring the Florida A&M University Rattlers football team for winning the 2023 HBCU National Championship, etc.

Community Associations; Creating the Condominium and Homeowners’ Association Economic Crime, Fraud, and Corruption Investigation Pilot Program within the Department of Legal Affairs in the Office of the Attorney General; defining the term “corruption”; requiring that the pilot program be funded from the Division of Florida Condominiums, Timeshares, and Mobile Homes Trust Fund; requiring that the pilot program’s primary office be located in Miami-Dade County, etc.