Sen. Ileana Garcia

Dementia-related Staff Training; Creating the “Florida Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Training and Education Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain dementia-related education to the public; requiring the department or its designee to make a record of the completion of the training; providing that an employee does not have to repeat such training after changing employment to another covered provider; authorizing the department or its designee to approve training providers and curricula and maintain a list of approved providers, etc.

Enhancing Patient Care Continuums; Providing that patients have a right to expect their health care records to be shared between their health care providers; revising the purpose and functions of the Office of Rural Health; requiring rural health networks to use health information exchange systems for specified purposes; revising criteria for Department of Health approval of certain cooperative agreements in certified rural health networks; requiring hospitals to use health information exchange systems to provide certain notification to a patient’s primary care provider, if any, etc.

Champlain Towers Condominium Urban Search and Rescue Teams; Expressing the gratitude of the Florida Senate to the valiant men and women of the urban search and rescue teams who worked tirelessly in the search for and recovery of victims of the Champlain Towers Condominium collapse, etc.

Public Records/Statewide Council on Human Trafficking; Creating an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information of a donor or prospective donor to the direct-support organization of the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking who desires to remain anonymous; providing an exemption from notice requirements for specified meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption under the Open Government Sunset Review Act; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Health Care Expenses; Requiring a licensed facility to establish, update, and make public a list of the facility’s charges for services which meets certain federal requirements; prohibiting consumer reporting agencies from publishing a consumer report containing a medical debt credit impairment under certain circumstances; requiring the consumer reporting agency to remove the credit impairment, free of charge, under certain circumstances; authorizing patient-consumers to initiate legal proceedings for violations; prohibiting persons from reporting certain consumer debt to a consumer reporting agency without the express written consent of the creditor, etc.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Workers’ Compensation for Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers; Defining the term “first responder” for the purposes of including part-time and auxiliary law enforcement officers for workers’ compensation benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder and for educational training related to mental health; providing that, under certain circumstances, posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by correctional officers and part-time correctional officers is an occupational disease compensable by workers’ compensation benefits; specifying the evidentiary standard for demonstrating such disorder, etc.

Servicers and Lenders of Residential Mortgage Loans; Requiring that periodic statements for residential mortgage loans follow specified laws; specifying that certain entities are not exempt from such laws; prohibiting a mortgage servicer from assessing certain charges or fees relating to lender-placed insurance on a borrower unless specified requirements are met; requiring mortgage servicers and mortgage lenders to assume duties and obligations relating to previously approved first lien loan modifications, foreclosure prevention alternatives, and other loan modifications under certain circumstances; prohibiting mortgage servicers and mortgage lenders from commencing certain civil actions, recording specified notices, or conducting foreclosure sales unless specified conditions are met, etc.

Building Safety; Defining the term “milestone inspection”; specifying that the purpose of a milestone inspection is not to determine compliance with the Florida Building Code or the firesafety code; requiring certain associations to periodically have a study conducted relating to required reserves after a specified date; requiring associations to provide for the maintenance, repair, and replacement of condominium property; authorizing boards to adopt a special assessment or borrow money for certain reasons without unit owner approval; revising certification and education requirements for directors of association boards, 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.