Sen. Travis Hutson

Child Welfare; Requiring that child support payments be deposited into specified trust funds; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to access certain records; requiring certain documentation in the case plan when a child is placed in a qualified residential treatment program; requiring certain screening requirements for residential group home employees, etc.

Communications Services Tax; Revising legislative intent regarding local communications services tax rates; revising downward the tax rate on the retail sale of communications services; deleting a provision that specifies where proceeds of a communications services tax must be deposited and disbursed; requiring dealers to collect and remit local communications services taxes under certain conditions; authorizing the Legislature to appropriate moneys to offset specified direct reductions of the local communications services tax by certain counties and municipalities, etc.

Automated Pharmacy Systems; Authorizing a community pharmacy to use an automated pharmacy system under certain circumstances; requiring such community pharmacies to adopt, annually review, and maintain a record of, for a specified time period, certain policies and procedures; providing that certain medicinal drugs stored in an automated pharmacy system for outpatient dispensing are part of the inventory of the pharmacy providing services through such system, etc.

Shark Fins; Citing this act as the “Kristin Jacobs Ocean Conservation Act”; prohibiting the import, export, and sale of shark fins in this state; providing exceptions; requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to evaluate the potential economic impacts to the commercial shark fishing industry in this state; requiring the commission to review the potential impact on shark populations; requiring a report to the Legislature by a specified date; authorizing the Legislature to impose a ban on the domestic production of shark fins based upon the findings of the report, etc.

Testing for and Treatment of Influenza; Requiring specified licensed pharmacists to report certain information to the Department of Health; authorizing pharmacists to test for and treat influenza and providing requirements relating thereto; requiring a pharmacy in which a pharmacist tests for and treats influenza to display and distribute specified information; providing limitations on the medications a pharmacist may administer to treat influenza; prohibiting a pharmacist from testing or treating patients under certain circumstances, etc.

Public Records/Endangered and Threatened Species; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for the site-specific location information of certain endangered and threatened species; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Housing; Authorizing a board of county commissioners to approve development of affordable housing on any parcel zoned for residential, commercial, or industrial use; requiring counties, municipalities, and special districts to include certain data relating to impact fees in their annual financial reports; revising applicable standards for the repair and remodeling of mobile and manufactured homes; authorizing the preclusion of an applicant or affiliate of an applicant from participation in Florida Housing Finance Corporation programs under certain conditions, etc.

Public Records/Office of Financial Regulation/Financial Technology Sandbox Applications; Providing exemptions from public records requirements for certain information submitted to the Office of Financial Regulation in Financial Technology Sandbox applications and information relating to certain consultations; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.

Technology Innovation; Establishing the Florida Digital Service and the Division of Telecommunications within the Department of Management Services; revising information technology-related powers, duties, and functions of the department acting through the Florida Digital Service; requiring the Department of Legal Affairs, the Department of Financial Services, or the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to notify the Governor and the Legislature and provide a certain justification and explanation if such agency adopts alternative standards to certain enterprise architecture standards; creating the Financial Technology Sandbox within the Office of Financial Regulation, etc. APPROPRIATION: $50,000

Unlawful Use of Uniforms, Medals, or Insignia; Prohibiting certain misrepresentations concerning military service when made for specified purposes, etc.