Sen. Tracie Davis

Special Risk Class Retirement Date; Revising the definition of “normal retirement date”; decreasing the age and years of service needed to reach the normal retirement date for certain members; authorizing certain members of the Special Risk Class to apply to participate in the Deferred Retirement Option Program within a specified time period; providing a declaration of important state interest, etc.

Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking; Specifying the authorized uses of funds from the Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking, etc.

Deceased Individuals; Citing this act as "Curtis’ Law"; requiring law enforcement agencies to provide certain information during the investigation of the death of a minor; providing an exception, etc.

Commercial Service Airport Transparency and Accountability; Revising information required to be posted on the website of a governing body; requiring a commercial service airport to use specified competitive solicitation processes for certain purchases of commodities or contractual services; requiring a governing body to approve, award, or ratify certain contracts by separate line item on the agenda if such contracts exceed specified amounts; prohibiting such contracts from being approved, awarded, or ratified as part of a consent agenda, etc.

Mental Health; Authorizing the Department of Children and Families to issue a conditional designation for up to a certain number of days to allow the implementation of certain corrective measures by receiving facilities, treatment facilities, and receiving systems; requiring the sheriff to administer or to permit the department to administer the appropriate psychotropic medication to forensic clients before admission to a state mental health treatment facility; revising what an expert is required to specifically report on for recommended treatment for a defendant to attain competence to proceed, if the expert finds that a defendant is incompetent to proceed; revising the circumstances under which every defendant who is charged with a felony and who is adjudicated incompetent to proceed may be involuntarily committed for treatment upon specified findings by the court, etc.

Medicaid Coverage of Continuous Glucose Monitors; Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, subject to the availability of funds and certain limitations and directions, to provide coverage for continuous glucose monitors for certain Medicaid recipients; providing requirements for Medicaid recipients to continue receiving coverage for their continuous glucose monitors; requiring the agency to include the rate impact of the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.

Benefits, Training, and Employment for Veterans and their Spouses; Requiring the Economic Development Programs Evaluation to include a periodic analysis of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; revising the duties of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and Florida Is For Veterans, Inc., respectively, to include the provision of certain assistance to veterans’ spouses; requiring the Department of Health to waive certain fees for veterans and their spouses under certain circumstances; establishing the Office of Veteran Licensure Services within the Division of Medical Quality Assurance, etc. APPROPRIATION: $399,565

Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; Enacting the Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; providing for recognition of psychologist licenses in compact states; providing that, while authority over a psychologist’s license remains with the home state, receiving states and distant states may define the scope of and act on a psychologist’s authority to practice in the receiving or distant state, as applicable, under the compact; requiring the Department of Health to report certain investigative information to the coordinated licensure information system, etc.

Custody and Supervision of Specified Offenders; Excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive basic gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility to receive incentive gain-time; excluding certain offenders from eligibility for specified reductions to a term of supervision; requiring a court to impose additional conditions of supervision on specified offenders, etc.

Operation New Hope; Authorizing the Department of Corrections, contingent upon appropriation, to contract with Operation New Hope for specified services, etc.