Sen. Manny Diaz, Jr.

Collaborative Practice in Health Care; Specifying that certified registered nurse anesthetists administering anesthesia in hospital settings must be working in collaboration with, rather than under the direction of, certain health care practitioners; exempting certified registered nurse anesthetists from specified protocol requirements under certain circumstances; authorizing certified registered nurse anesthetists to perform specified functions in collaboration with, rather than pursuant to an established protocol under, certain health care practitioners, etc.

Hope Scholarship Program; Revising the purpose of the Hope Scholarship Program; revising program eligibility; providing for the use of funds under the program; revising school district, Department of Education, parent, and nonprofit scholarship-funding organization obligations under the program; authorizing payment of scholarship funds by organizations to be made by deposit into the student’s account instead of by individual warrant made payable to the student’s parent, etc.

Homestead Taxes for Persons Age 65 and Older; Providing a homestead assessment limitation for certain persons who have attained age 65; requiring a property appraiser to serve a notice of intent to record a notice of tax lien against the property upon persons granted but not entitled to the limitation; revising the additional exemptions that may be granted by counties or municipalities to certain senior, low-income, long-term residents receiving a specified homestead exemption; providing for a homestead exemption equal to the assessed value of the property for certain property held by certain senior, low-income, long-term residents, etc.

School Personnel; Prohibiting a person who is required to make certain reports concerning sexual misconduct with a student from knowingly or willfully failing to make such report or knowingly or willfully preventing another person from doing so; prohibiting a person from knowingly or willfully submitting inaccurate, incomplete, or untruthful information with respect to a report concerning sexual misconduct with a student; specifying that certain instructional and noninstructional personnel must file fingerprints with the employing entity or alternative school, as applicable, rather than the district school board; providing that certain procedures established by district school superintendents set the standards of service to be offered to the public within the meaning of a specified provision and are not subject to the collective bargaining process, etc.

Construction Materials Mining Activities; Specifying a ground vibration limit for construction materials mining activities within 1 mile of certain areas; authorizing the State Fire Marshal to modify the standards, limits, and regulations for the use of explosives in connection with such construction materials mining activities, etc.

Legislative Review of Proposed Regulation of Unregulated Functions; Providing that certain requirements must be met before adopting the regulation of an unregulated profession or occupation or the substantial expansion of regulation of a regulated profession or occupation; requiring the proponents of legislation that proposes such regulation to provide certain information to the state agency that would have jurisdiction over the proposed regulation and to the Legislature by a certain date; requiring such state agency to provide certain information to the Legislature within a specified timeframe; providing an exception, etc.

Municipal Incorporation; Requiring that a charter for incorporation of a municipality be approved in a specified nonbinding referendum before the contemplated special act or proposed bill is introduced in the Legislature; requiring that the certified results of the referendum be attached to the bill when introduced; revising the date when a required feasibility study of a proposed municipal incorporation must be completed and submitted to the Legislature, etc.

Public Records/Investigation of a Murder; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information relating to an investigation of a murder until such records are given or required to be given to an arrested person under specified circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing an exemption from public records requirements for statements of a witness to a murder for a specified timeframe; delaying an existing legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Internal Revenue Service Regulations; Urging Congress to protect consumers from harmful and intrusive Internal Revenue Service regulations, 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.