Sen. Ana Maria Rodriguez

Relief of Eric Miles, Jr., and Jennifer Miles by the South Broward Hospital District; Providing for the relief of Eric Miles, Jr., and Jennifer Miles, as copersonal representatives of their minor son, E.E.M., by the South Broward Hospital District, d/b/a Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital; providing for an appropriation to compensate Eric Miles, Jr., and Jennifer Miles for the injuries and damages sustained by their son as a result of the negligence of the South Broward Hospital District; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $200,000

Entities that Boycott Israel; Requiring the public fund to make its best efforts to identify certain institutions, organizations, agencies, governments, and other entities in which the public fund has direct or indirect holdings; requiring the public fund to compile and make available the Scrutinized Companies or Other Entities that Boycott Israel List; requiring the Department of Management Services to work with the public fund to determine the companies or other entities with which the state contracts or has grant agreements; requiring applicants to sign a certification form attesting that they comply with specified antidiscrimination laws and will not engage in antisemitic discrimination or antisemitic speech in conjunction with the program or project for which their grant is awarded, etc.

Mental Health; Citing this act as the “Tristin Murphy Act”; expanding the programs and diversion initiatives supported by implementation or expansion grants to include training for 911 public safety telecommunicators and emergency medical technicians for certain purposes and to include veterans treatment court programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish misdemeanor or ordinance violation mental health diversion programs; encouraging communities to apply for specified grants to establish pretrial felony mental health diversion programs; expanding eligibility for the Forensic Hospital Diversion Pilot Program to include Hillsborough County, etc. APPROPRIATION: $794,880

Telecommunications Access System Act of 1991; Revising the powers and duties of the Florida Public Service Commission in overseeing the administration of the telecommunications access system; revising the duties of the system’s administrator; revising the procedures required for the distribution of specialized telecommunications devices; revising the composition of the advisory committee appointed to assist the commission with implementing the act, etc.

Fraudulent Use of Gift Cards; Providing criminal penalties for persons who, with the intent to defraud, commit specified prohibited acts related to gift cards; providing criminal penalties for persons who, with the intent to defraud, use for certain purposes gift cards or gift card redemption information; providing enhanced criminal penalties, etc.

Vessel Accountability; Defining the term “vessel owner”; providing a penalty for a person anchoring, mooring, or allowing certain vessels to occupy the waters of this state if an officer of the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission or a law enforcement agency finds that specified conditions exist; requiring the commission to issue, at no cost, a permit for the long-term anchoring of a vessel which includes specified information; requiring the commission to use an electronic application and permitting system; requiring that a vessel subject to a specified number of violations within a 24-month period which result in certain dispositions be declared a public nuisance, etc.

Public Records and Public Meetings/Hearings Relating to Mental Health and Substance Abuse; Specifying that all hearings relating to mental health and substance abuse, respectively, are confidential and closed to the public; providing exceptions; exempting certain information from public records requirements; expanding a public records exemption to include certain petitions and applications; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Patient Referrals by Medicaid Managed Care Organizations and Managed Care Plans; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to conduct or cause to be conducted reviews, investigations, analyses, audits, and combinations thereof to determine if managed care organizations, managed care plans, and their subcontractors violate the Medicaid program integrity in their patient referrals; providing penalties, etc.

Public Records/Licensed Veterinary Technicians ; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for records relating to licensed veterinary technicians until specified criteria are met; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Maddy summarySB 1350 would exempt the sale of qualifying indigenous products from the state's sales tax. This directly affects sellers and buyers of these products within the state. The bill's key mechanism is removing the sales tax obligation for transactions involving such products, as specified in the official abstract. It creates a specific tax exemption for indigenous products without defining them further in the provided summary.