Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez

Accessing Personnel Files of Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring the employing agency of a law enforcement officer to maintain in the personnel file or other public record a log documenting the name, address, and identification presented of any person requesting and receiving from the employing agency such files or records of such officer, etc.

Coverage for Cancer Imaging and Genetic Testing; Requiring health insurers and health maintenance organizations to provide certain coverage; prohibiting such coverage from being subject to cost-sharing requirements, etc.

Recording of Protective Investigations; Requiring that interviews conducted pursuant to protective investigations be audio or video recorded; providing exceptions; providing that persons charged with certain criminal offenses do not have standing to object to an investigator’s failure to record such an interview; providing that an investigator’s failure to record such an interview is not grounds for precluding certain statements from certain proceedings, etc.

Public Records/Recordings of Protective Investigations; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings of interviews conducted as part of a protective investigation by the Department of Children and Families; authorizing the release of such recordings to certain persons; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Penalties for Late-filed Disclosures or Statements of Financial Interests; Prohibiting the assessment of a fine for a reporting person’s first late filing of a disclosure or statement of financial interests if certain conditions are met, etc.

Food and Plastic Waste Reduction; Requiring the Department of Education to develop a specified pilot program in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services; requiring that the pilot program be offered in a certain percentage of schools, beginning in a specified school year; requiring each participating school district to submit a report to the Department of Education by a specified date, etc.

Sovereign Immunity of County Constitutional Officers in Tort Actions; Expanding the definition of the term “state agencies or subdivisions” to include county constitutional officers for purposes of provisions relating to the waiver of sovereign immunity in tort actions, etc.

Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; Creating the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact; providing purpose of the compact; specifying requirements for a podiatric physician to apply for and receive an expedited license in a member state; creating the Interstate Podiatric Medical Licensure Compact Commission; providing powers and duties, including financial powers, of the commission, etc.

Speech and Debate Education; Creating the Florida Speech and Debate Hall of Fame; designating Florida Speech and Debate Week annually in February; establishing the Florida Debate Initiative, Inc., (FDI) as a statewide speech and debate organization that performs certain functions in support of the Florida Civics and Debate Initiative (FCDI) in the Department of Education; requiring the Board of Governors of the State University System and the State Board of Education to develop specified undergraduate and graduate coursework, certificates, and micro-credentials, etc. APPROPRIATION: $2,400,000

Recovery of Damages for Medical Negligence Resulting in Death; Deleting a provision that precludes certain persons from recovering damages for medical negligence resulting in death, etc.