Sen. Jason Brodeur

Background Screenings; Authorizing criminal history results to be provided to and shared between certain parties; providing that existing retention provisions apply to persons included in the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse; requiring an independent sanctioning authority to conduct level 2 background screenings of current and prospective athletic coaches; requiring specified entities to participate in a certain criminal history system; requiring the Criminal Justice Information Program to develop a certain identification method; requiring specified entities to initiate criminal history checks through the clearinghouse, etc.

Smart Region Zones; Authorizing a group of four or more contiguous counties to apply to Enterprise Florida, Inc., to receive designation as a smart region zone; authorizing the designated smart region zone centers of excellence and certain projects within a smart region zone to apply to Enterprise Florida, Inc., for funding; requiring smart region zone centers of excellence to submit quarterly reports containing specified information to Enterprise Florida, Inc., etc.

Revisions or Amendments of the State Constitution by Citizen Initiative; Proposing an amendment to the State Constitution to limit revisions or amendments of the State Constitution by citizen initiative to matters relating to procedural subjects or to the structure of the government or of the State Constitution, etc.

Recovery for Wrongful Death; Deleting a prohibition on adult children of certain decedents recovering specified damages, etc.

Mergers and Acquisitions Reporting; Requiring certain entities to submit to the Office of the Attorney General written notice of a specified federal filing relating to mergers and acquisitions, etc.

Mobility Funding Systems; Revising requirements and best practices for local governments applying concurrency to transportation facilities; specifying prohibited uses of, and requirements and best practices for, mobility plans by local governments; providing requirements for a local government electing to adopt a mobility plan and mobility fee; specifying requirements for, and restrictions on, mobility fees, fee updates, and fee increases, etc.

Medication Technicians; Requiring that assisted living facility residents who are able to use their point-of-care devices without assistance be encouraged and allowed to do so; authorizing medication technicians to assist assisted living facility residents with their use of point-of-care devices under certain circumstances; providing minimum requirements and specifications for the training of medication technicians; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt rules establishing such requirements, etc.

Energy; Revising the selection criteria for purchasing or leasing vehicles for state agency, college, or university or certain local government fleets; removing a provision requiring the use and procurement of ethanol and biodiesel fuels; requiring the Department of Management Services, before a specified date, to make recommendations to state agencies and local governments relating to the procurement and integration of electric and natural gas fuel vehicles; revising the definition of the term “single-trade inspection”, etc.

Invalid Restrictive Covenants in Health Care; Defining the terms “hospital” and “physician”; specifying that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements between physicians and hospitals do not support a legitimate business interest, etc.

Health Care Cost Savings; Revising the definition of the term “shoppable health care service” to include certain items and services specified in federal regulation, etc.