Sen. Jason Brodeur

Special Persons Registry; Citing this act as the “Protect Our Loved Ones Act”; requiring the Department of Health to develop and maintain a database, to be known as the “Special Persons Registry,” for a specified purpose; specifying information the registry may include; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to provide relevant information from the registry to law enforcement officers upon request through a specified system, etc.

Public Records/Special Persons Registry; Providing an exemption from public records requirements for all records, data, information, correspondence, and communications relating to the enrollment of persons in the Special Persons Registry maintained by the Department of Health; providing exceptions; authorizing law enforcement agencies, county emergency management agencies, and local fire departments to further disclose confidential and exempt information under certain circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, 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.

Schools of Innovation; Establishing the Schools of Innovation Program within the Department of Education; authorizing the State Board of Education to authorize the Commissioner of Education to waive certain rules; authorizing public school districts to apply for identified schools to receive the designation of school of innovation; prohibiting a student attending a school of innovation who transfers to another school from being subject to specified penalties; authorizing schools designated as schools of innovation to use an alternative definition of letter grades, etc.

Advanced Life Support Nontransport Services and Medical Countermeasures; Exempting certain governmental entities from the requirement to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a license to provide advanced life support nontransport services; prohibiting counties from limiting, prohibiting, or preventing such entities from providing advanced life support nontransport services; providing that a medical director is liable for any act or omission of a paramedic under his or her supervision who administers medical countermeasures in a nonemergency environment; providing for a State Emergency Medical Services Medical Director appointed by the State Surgeon General, etc.

Damages Recoverable by Parents of an Adult Child in Medical Negligence Actions; Deleting a provision prohibiting parents of an adult child from recovering damages for mental pain and suffering in a medical negligence suit, etc.

Education Recovery Scholarship Accounts; Establishing education recovery scholarship accounts; providing the purpose of the accounts; specifying eligibility requirements; providing requirements for parent and student participation; prohibiting providers from sharing scholarship account moneys with parents or students; prohibiting a parent, student, or provider from billing specified entities for the same services that are paid for using scholarship account funds; specifying Department of Education scholarship obligations; specifying school district scholarship obligations; providing for funding and payment of scholarships; providing immunity from liability for the state, etc.

Driver History Records; Prohibiting the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles from releasing driver history records to third parties which include certain notations or records, etc.

Financial Disclosures; Revising the date by which full and public disclosure of financial interests must be filed electronically; requiring the Commission on Ethics to accept only disclosures in paper form through a specified date; requiring the commission to accept federal income tax returns, financial statements, and other forms or attachments showing sources of income for a specified purpose; requiring members of the Commission on Ethics and the Florida Elections Commission to file a full and public disclosure of financial interests; authorizing the commission to dismiss financial disclosure complaints alleging de minimis violations, etc.

Dental Care Services; Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to provide Medicaid reimbursements for dental services provided by a mobile dental unit owned by, operated by, or having a contractual agreement with a health access setting or a similar setting or program under certain circumstances; deleting the requirement that applicants for dental hygienist licensure demonstrate specified skills on a live patient; revising specified tasks that may be delegated only to a licensed dental hygienist; revising specified remediable tasks licensed dental hygienists may perform in health access settings without the physical presence, prior examination, or authorization of a dentist, etc.