Immunization Standards for Child Care Facilities; Requiring the Department of Children and Families to include in licensure standards for child care facilities a minimum percentage of children enrolled in a facility who must have received immunizations, etc.
Sponsored bills
Survivors of Sexual Offenses; Citing this act as the “Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights”; providing for the attachment and duration of survivor rights; prohibiting a medical provider from charging a survivor for certain incurred costs; prohibiting a law enforcement officer, prosecutor, or defense attorney from discouraging a survivor from receiving a certain medical exam; requiring law enforcement officers and prosecutors to provide certain information to a survivor upon his or her written request, etc.
Targets of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee between 1956 and 1965; Acknowledging the injustices perpetrated against the targets of the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee between 1956 and 1965, and offering a formal and heartfelt apology to those whose lives, well-being, and livelihoods were damaged or destroyed by the activities and public pronouncements of those who served on the committee, etc.
Recreation Programs; Revising the definition of the term “child care facility” to exclude government-sponsored recreation programs; providing that certain requirements imposed on child care facilities do not apply to summer day camps and summer 24-hour camps, with an exception; prohibiting persons convicted of certain sex offenses from residing within a specified distance of government-sponsored recreation programs, etc.
Donor Human Milk Bank Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for donor human milk bank services as an optional Medicaid service if certain conditions are met; adding donor human milk bank services to the list of Medicaid services authorized for reimbursement on a fee-for-service basis; adding donor human milk bank services to the list of minimum benefits required to be covered by managed care plans, etc.
Informed Consent; Requiring health care practitioners to obtain written informed consent from the patient or the patient’s legal representative in order to perform examinations on or provide medical care or treatment to the patient, with exceptions; requiring the attending health care practitioner to inform the patient of specified information and to document specified information in the patient’s medical record under certain circumstances; providing for disciplinary action against attending health care practitioners or supervising medical educators who fail to comply with certain provisions, etc.
Public Safety Communications Systems; Authorizing the Governor to require the improvement of inadequate communications systems or the specific placement of towers under certain circumstances; requiring a local government to reimburse the state for such costs under certain circumstances; providing factors that the Division of State Technology within the Department of Management Services may consider to find that a community’s communications system is inadequate, etc.
Human Trafficking Prevention; Requiring certain commercial driver schools to offer as part of their curriculum either a human trafficking prevention course administered by the Department of Law Enforcement or by a certain organization or certain industry-specific training; requiring that a specified amount of time in a school bus driver training program provided by a district school board be allocated to certain industry-specific training, etc.
Court-ordered Expunction and Sealing of Certain Records; Expanding the eligibility criteria for the expunction and sealing of criminal history records to allow for expunction and sealing for a conviction of possession of a certain amount of cannabis, etc.
Exemptions from School-entry Health Requirements; Deleting exemptions from school-entry health examinations and immunization requirements for religious reasons; requiring the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine to jointly create a medical exemption review panel, etc.