Sen. Ileana Garcia

In-person Visitation; Citing this act as the “No Patient Left Alone Act”; requiring certain providers to establish visitation policies and procedures within a specified timeframe; authorizing the resident, client, or patient to designate an essential caregiver; requiring in-person visitation in certain circumstances; authorizing providers to suspend in-person visitation of specific visitors under certain circumstances, etc.

Financial Literacy Instruction in Public Schools; Citing this act as the “Dorothy L. Hukill Financial Literacy Act”; revising the requirements regarding financial literacy for the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards; revising the required credits for a standard high school diploma to include one-half credit of instruction in personal financial literacy and money management and seven and one-half, rather than eight, credits in electives; modifying the requirements for the award of a standard high school diploma for Academically Challenging Curriculum to Enhance Learning options, etc.

Student Fee Exemptions; Revising fee waiver eligibility for students who are or were placed in the custody of a relative or nonrelative to include students placed prior to a specified date, etc.

Mangrove Replanting and Restoration; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules for mangrove replanting and restoration, etc.

Property Appraisers; Revising factors that a property appraiser must consider in deriving just valuation; revising the thresholds for variance in assessed value which allow a property appraiser to appeal decisions of the value adjustment board, etc.

Authorization of Restrictions Concerning Dangerous Dogs; Authorizing certain housing authorities to adopt certain ordinances, rules, or policies relating to dangerous dogs; removing an exemption for local ordinances adopted before a specified date which pertain to dogs that have bitten or attacked persons or domestic animals, etc.

Patient Identification and Health Care Decisions; Authorizing the Department of Law Enforcement and other law enforcement agencies to assist hospitals in identifying otherwise unidentifiable patients; requiring such agencies to provide the hospital with specified information, upon a hospital’s request; authorizing certain clinical social workers to make specified health care decisions and applications for public and private benefits for the continued care of certain patients, etc.

Domestic Violence Task Force; Creating the Domestic Violence Task Force adjunct to the Department of Children and Families; requiring the department to provide certain services to the task force; providing purposes of the task force; specifying the composition of the task force; providing for the appointment of task force members and requirements for meetings; specifying duties of the task force; requiring state departments and agencies to provide requested assistance to the task force; requiring the task force to submit reports to the Governor and the Legislature by certain dates; providing for dissolution of the task force; providing for future repeal, unless saved by the Legislature through reenactment, etc.

Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.

Children and Young Adults in Out-of-home Care; Specifying the rights of, rather than goals for, children and young adults in out-of-home care; providing the roles and responsibilities of the Department of Children and Families, community-based care lead agencies, and other agency staff; designating a children’s ombudsman as an autonomous entity within the department; requiring the ombudsman, in consultation with the department and other specified entities and by a specified date, to develop standardized information explaining the rights of children and young adults placed in out-of-home care, etc.