Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez

Regulation of Single-use Plastic Products; Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to submit updated retail bag reports with conclusions and recommendations to the Legislature by specified dates; defining the term “coastal community”; authorizing coastal communities to establish pilot programs to regulate single-use plastic products, etc.

Agritourism; Prohibiting local governments from adopting ordinances, regulations, rules, or policies that require certificates of use for certain agricultural lands, facilities, and venues or that limit certain activities associated with agritourism; providing for the termination, expiration, extension, and renewal of specified local government ordinances, rules, and measures, etc.

Pension Plan Election Under the Florida Retirement System; Authorizing certain eligible employees participating in the Florida Retirement System to make a second election to move back to the pension plan; providing that the cost of such election is deferred until the member’s retirement; prohibiting such cost from exceeding a specified percentage of the member’s retirement benefits, etc.

Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement System; Authorizing employees enrolled in the Special Risk Class to make an election to move from the investment plan to the pension plan within a certain timeframe, subject to certain conditions, etc.

Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Compact; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during the closed portions of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Water Safety; Requiring comprehensive age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate K-12 instruction on water safety; requiring students to be provided with literature on water safety, etc.

Formal Supervisory Relationships; Exempting certain medical offices from specified supervisory relationship requirements under certain circumstances; providing that a supervising physician is not required to be physically present while supervising the provision of laser hair removal services by certain health care practitioners, etc.

Forwarding Agent Certificates; Revising application requirements for forwarding agents when applying to the Department of Revenue for a certain certificate; requiring a forwarding agent that applies for and receives such certificate to notify the department within a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; prohibiting the department from requiring a forwarding agent to resubmit an application during a certain timeframe, etc.

Lights on Motor Vehicles; Reclassifying the offense of driving, moving, or causing to be moved a vehicle or equipment with certain lighting on a highway and effects or attempts to effect a stop of another vehicle, etc.

Prescription Drug Coverage; Requiring individual and group health insurers to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes within a certain timeframe to current and prospective insureds and the insureds’ treating physicians; specifying requirements for a notice of medical necessity submitted by the treating physician; requiring small employer carriers to comply with certain requirements for prescription drug formulary changes; requiring health maintenance organizations to maintain a record of formulary changes, etc.