Seating Requirements for Special Food Service Establishment Licenses; Revising the requirements for receiving a special food service establishment license, etc.
Sponsored bills
Informed Consent for Mammograms; Requiring certain facilities to provide each patient with an informed consent form before performing a mammogram; requiring the form to be signed by the patient; requiring facilities to notify patients of the form at a specified time; requiring facilities to post the form on their websites; providing requirements for the form; requiring the Department of Health to develop the form, etc.
Military Corpsmen and Medics of Florida (MCMF) Program; Creating the MCMF Program Office of Veterans Advocacy within the Department of Health; requiring the MCMF Program, through the Department of Economic Opportunity, to assist certain veterans and their spouses with specified tasks; requiring Florida Is for Veterans, Inc., to collaborate with specified entities to implement the MCMF Program, etc.
Broadband Infrastructure; Revising the duties of the Florida Office of Broadband to include administering the Broadband Pole Replacement Program; establishing the Broadband Pole Replacement Program within the office; providing that certain denied applicants may reapply in certain circumstances; requiring the office to provide certain reimbursements within a certain period of time, etc.
Liens and Bonds; Revising when a notice of contest of claim against a payment bond and a notice of nonpayment must be served; requiring that a copy of a notice of nonpayment be served on the surety; providing for the computation of time for recording a document or filing an action when certain time periods fall on specified days or during a declared state of emergency; defining the term “copy of the notice of commencement”; requiring service of documents relating to construction bonds to be made in a specified manner, etc.
Automatic Renewal Subscription Cancellations; Requiring businesses that offer automatic renewal subscriptions to provide consumers with certain methods to cancel the service; declaring that violations are unfair trade practices and subject to the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, etc.
Reduction of Human Trafficking; Citing this act as the "Human Trafficking Reduction Act"; prohibiting an operator of a public lodging establishment from offering an hourly rate for an accommodation; increasing criminal penalties for soliciting or procuring another person to commit prostitution or other specified offenses or purchasing the services of a person engaged in prostitution; creating the Statewide Data Repository for Anonymous Human Trafficking Data at the University of South Florida, etc.
Public Records/Person Who Has Adopted an Animal; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for records containing certain information pertaining to persons who have adopted an animal from an animal shelter or animal control agency operated by a local government; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Workers’ Compensation for Law Enforcement and Correctional Officers; Defining the term “first responder” for the purposes of including part-time and auxiliary law enforcement officers for workers’ compensation benefits for posttraumatic stress disorder and for educational training related to mental health; providing that, under certain circumstances, posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by correctional officers and part-time correctional officers is an occupational disease compensable by workers’ compensation benefits; specifying the evidentiary standard for demonstrating such disorder, etc.
Fetal and Infant Mortality Reduction; Revising the purpose and requirements for the Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program; requiring the Department of Health to contract with local healthy start coalitions for the creation of fetal and infant mortality review committees in all regions of this state; prohibiting a physician from performing a termination of pregnancy if the physician determines the gestational age of a fetus is more than a specified number of weeks, with exceptions; requiring the directors of certain medical facilities and certain physicians to submit a certain report to the Agency for Health Care Administration monthly, etc. APPROPRIATION: $260,000