Rare Kidney Disease Awareness Month; Recognizing March 2022 as “Rare Kidney Disease Awareness Month” in Florida
Animal Abusers; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to post on its website by a specified date a publicly accessible animal abuser registry of persons convicted of animal abuse offenses; prohibiting the registry from including certain information; prohibiting certain persons and entities from selling, exchanging, or otherwise transferring the ownership of an animal to a registered abuser; authorizing courts, as a condition of probation, to prohibit persons convicted of certain animal cruelty or sexual activity with an animal violations from having certain responsibilities for or associations with an animal, etc.
Criminal Justice; Deleting provisions relating to allowing specified elected officials to file an appeal to the Administration Commission if the governing body of a municipality makes a specified reduction to the operating budget of the municipal law enforcement agency; deleting a criminal penalty for an assault committed in furtherance of a riot or an aggravated riot; repealing a provision relating to destroying or demolishing a memorial or historic property; deleting the definition of the term “conditions arising from the riot”, etc.
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders; Providing that the use of peer specialists is an essential element of a coordinated system of care in recovery from a substance use disorder or mental illness; revising background screening requirements for certain peer specialists; requiring the Department of Children and Families to designate managing entities to conduct or contract for training for peer specialists; requiring peer specialists and certain persons to meet the requirements of a background screening as a condition of employment and continued employment, etc.
Managed Care Plan Performance; Requiring managed care plans to collect and report specified measures beginning with a certain data reporting period; requiring plans to stratify reported measures by specified categories beginning with a certain data reporting period; requiring a plan’s performance to be published on its website in a specified manner; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to use the measures to monitor plan performance, etc.
FAMU Day; Recognizing February 24, 2022, as “FAMU Day” in Florida, etc.
Funding for Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services; Authorizing sheriffs who provide child protective investigative services to carry forward a certain percentage of unexpended state funds each fiscal year; requiring certain funds to be returned to the Department of Children and Families; prohibiting funds carried forward from being used in certain ways; requiring that certain expenditures be reported to the department; authorizing unexpended funds to be retained through contract or grant agreement renewals under certain circumstances, etc.
Transportation Facility Designations/98 Points of Light Road; Providing an honorary designation of a certain transportation facility in a specified county; directing the Department of Transportation to erect suitable markers, etc.
Child Welfare; Requiring the Department of Health to waive fees for certified copies of birth certificates issued to certain unaccompanied homeless youth and young adults; revising requirements for required collaboration among the Board of Governors, the Florida College System, and the Department of Education in working with the Department of Children and Families to assist specified children and young adults; revising eligibility and requirements for a certain driver education, licensure, and insurance program to include certain unaccompanied homeless youth; specifying certification criteria for unaccompanied homeless youth; requiring district school boards to provide cards that contain specified information to certain unaccompanied homeless youth, etc.
Protective Injunctions; Authorizing clerks of the court to electronically transmit certain documents relating to an injunction for protection against domestic violence under certain circumstances; providing that electronically transmitted documents may be served in the same manner as certified copies; authorizing clerks of the court to electronically transmit certain documents relating to injunctions for protection against repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence and against stalking, respectively, under certain circumstances; requiring the Florida Sheriffs Association and the Florida Association of Court Clerks and Comptrollers to establish a joint workgroup for a specified purpose, etc.
