Sen. Anitere Flores

Community Planning; Providing requirements for establishing a quorum for meetings of certain councils when a voting member appears via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication; requiring the member to give notice of intent to appear via telephone, real-time videoconferencing, or similar real-time electronic or video communication by a specified time; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to give a preference to certain counties and municipalities when selecting applications for funding for technical assistance, etc.

Midwifery; Revising responsibilities of licensed midwives providing in-hospital and out-of-hospital births; revising the requirements for the uniform patient informed consent form used by licensed midwives providing out-of-hospital births, etc.

Price Transparency in Health Care Services; Prohibiting a health insurer from limiting a contracted health care provider’s ability to disclose certain pricing information to a patient; prohibiting a health insurer from requiring an insured to pay an amount for covered services which exceeds a certain price, etc.

Nicotine Products; Revising the punishment for certain civil infractions; defining the terms “characterizing flavor” and “flavored liquid nicotine”; prohibiting the sale, delivery, bartering, furnishing, or giving of flavored liquid nicotine to any person; prohibiting a person from engaging in certain activities relating to the promotion of nicotine dispensing devices and nicotine products for unlawful use; requiring retailers of electronic nicotine delivery systems to take certain actions when selling the devices, etc.

Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement System; Adding employees of a water, sewer, or other public works department of a participating employer who work in certain hazardous conditions to the class as of a specified date, etc.

Takings Claims Within Areas of Critical State Concern; Citing this act as the “Florida Keys Property Rights Protection Act”; providing for the apportionment of awards of damages for takings claims within areas of critical state concern; providing that certain governmental entities are liable only for certain postjudgment interest; requiring local governments to be reimbursed for specified amounts under certain circumstances, etc.

Temporary Protected Status to Venezuelans in the United States; Urging the Congress of the United States and the President of the United States to grant temporary protected status to Venezuelans in the United States

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation; Revising and specifying annual rate increase limits for certain policies issued by the corporation, etc.

Law Enforcement Activities; Authorizing a citizen support organization for Florida Missing Children’s Day to provide grants to law enforcement agencies for specified purposes; authorizing sexual predators and sexual offenders to report online certain information to the Department of Law Enforcement; requiring the Chief of Domestic Security to oversee the development of a statewide strategy for targeted violence prevention, etc.

Charter Schools; Prohibiting sponsors from refusing to receive a charter school application submitted during the calendar year; revising how charter schools operated by not-for-profit or municipal entities may use certain unrestricted current and capital assets; specifying how many applications a high-performing charter school may submit in any school district in the state to establish and operate a new charter school; revising the virtual instruction a virtual charter school may provide, etc.