Sen. Audrey Gibson

Motor Vehicle Registration Certificate Cards; Requiring the application form for motor vehicle registration and renewal of registration to include language permitting applicants to request registration certificate cards; authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and tax collectors to use United States mail service to deliver registration certificate cards; expanding the list of documents required to be in the possession of the operator of a motor vehicle or carried in the vehicle for certain purposes to include registration certificate cards; requiring that registration certificate cards be issued to the owner of a registered vehicle, etc.

Entertainment Industry; Creating the Targeted High Wage Production Program within the Department of Economic Opportunity under the supervision of the Commissioner of Film and Entertainment; requiring that film, television, and digital media projects being produced in this state meet specified criteria to be eligible for tax credit awards; requiring a certified project to make a good faith effort to use existing providers of infrastructure or equipment in this state and to employ residents of this state; requiring the Florida Film and Entertainment Advisory Council to determine a score for each qualified project using specified criteria; requiring the department to disqualify a project under certain circumstances, etc.

Energy Equity Task Force; Creating the task force adjunct to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified purpose; providing for the membership and duties of the task force; requiring the department to provide staffing and administrative support to the task force; requiring the task force to submit a report to certain officials by a specified date, etc,

Fees/Registration Certificate Cards; Authorizing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to collect a mail service charge for mailed registration certificate cards; imposing a specified service charge for the transfer or duplicate issuance of a registration certificate card, etc.

Nursing Home Accountability; Requiring licensed nursing home facilities to comply with certain rules adopted by the Agency for Health Care Administration; requiring nursing home facilities to pay any excess Medicaid revenue to the agency by a specified date under certain circumstances; prohibiting nursing home facilities from using more than a specified percentage of Medicaid funding on executive and managerial salaries; requiring each nursing home facility to post certain maximum rates charged at the facility on its Internet website and update the rates annually; specifying that a nursing home’s or its home office’s actual financial experience is its audited actual experience for purposes of financial reporting, etc.

Equal Rights for Men and Women; Ratifying the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States relating to equal rights for men and women, etc.

Sickle-cell Disease; Requiring the Department of Health to establish and maintain a sickle-cell registry for a specified purpose; requiring the department to analyze the reported information and make certain determinations; providing duties for the department to promote early detection and treatment of sickle-cell disease; requiring the department to adopt rules requiring screening of newborns for sickle-cell disease and sickle-cell trait, etc.

Dementia-related Staff Training; Creating the “Florida Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia Training and Education Act”; requiring the Department of Elderly Affairs to offer certain dementia-related education to the public; requiring the department or its designee to make a record of the completion of the training; providing that an employee does not have to repeat such training after changing employment to another covered provider; authorizing the department or its designee to approve training providers and curricula and maintain a list of approved providers, etc.

Public Records and Public Meetings/Elder Abuse Fatality Review Team; Specifying that information obtained by an elder abuse fatality review team which is exempt or confidential and exempt from public records requirements retains its protected status; providing an exemption from public records requirements for personal identifying information of an elder abuse victim in records created by a review team; providing an exemption from public meetings requirements for portions of review team meetings at which exempt or confidential and exempt information or the identity of an elder abuse victim is discussed; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing statements of public necessity, etc.

Resident Care in Nursing Home Facilities; Requiring a resident’s attending health care provider in a nursing home facility to consult with the resident’s personal physician, if selected, in the provision of acute care to the resident and before ordering or prescribing medication to the resident; requiring the resident’s attending health care provider to document any such consultations in the resident’s records; requiring nursing home facilities to take certain measures before admitting a resident; requiring nursing home facilities to provide each resident with the opportunity to select a personal physician; revising the timeframe in which nursing home facilities must furnish requested records of a current or former resident, etc.