FL HB 1 - House Judiciary Committee
Social Media Use for Minors
02/16/2024 - Placed on Special Order Calendar, 02/21/24
Requires social media platforms to prohibit minors from creating new accounts, terminate accounts & provide additional options for termination of such accounts, use reasonable age verification methods to verify ages of account holders, & disclose specified policies & provide specified resources, measures, & disclaimers; authorizes DLA to bring actions for violations under Florida Deceptive & Unfair Trade Practices Act; provides penalties; provides for private causes of actions; provides certain social media platforms are subject to jurisdiction of state courts.
FL HB 101 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Pub. Rec. & Meetings/Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact
12/19/2023 - Now in Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
Provides exemptions from public meetings & records requirements for Social Work Licensure Compact Commission & executive committee & other committees of commission; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions; provides statement of public necessity.
FL HB 1041 -
Review of Juvenile Sentences
12/27/2023 - Filed
Revises eligibility requirements for review of sentences for offenses committed while juvenile; revises duties of DOC concerning reviews; revises procedures for initiating review; provides for appointment of counsel; provides requirements for hearings; requires court to render written ruling; requires court to consider specified additional factors; requires annual report; provides for retroactive application.
FL HB 1047 - Lauren Melo
Home and Community-based Services Medicaid Waiver Program
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Requires APD to develop & implement automated, electronic application process for specified services; provides requirements for application process; requires agency to provide application in printed form or portable document format under certain circumstances; requires agency to make eligibility determination in specified amount of time for certain persons; authorizes agency to request additional documentation under certain circumstances; provides requirements for such request; provides requirements for AHCA when client’s iBudget is established; requires agency within specified time period to ensure certain services that client has applied for have begun.
FL HB 1057 - Hillary Cassel
Scholarships and Loan Forgiveness for Mental Health Professionals
02/28/2023 - Now in Postsecondary Education & Workforce Subcommittee
Establishes mental health profession scholarship & loan forgiveness program within DOH for specified purpose; provides for applicant eligibility & award of scholarships; limits number of scholarship awards that may be granted each year; specifies service obligations for scholarship recipients; provides for repayment of scholarship funds if program requirements are not fully satisfied; provides for applicant eligibility & award of loan repayments; specifies conditions for award of such loan repayments; requires department to review loan repayment applicant requests on quarterly basis & grant awards in specified manner.
FL HB 1061 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Community-based Child Welfare Agencies
02/24/2024 - CS Filed
Authorizes DCF to extend contracts with community-based care lead agencies under certain circumstances; revises requirements for entity to serve as lead agency; requires lead agency's board of directors to disclose any known or potential conflicts of interest; requires department contracts with lead agencies to include certain contractual penalty provisions; requires department, in collaboration with lead agencies & providers of child welfare services, to develop specific funding methodology for allocation of core services which meets certain criteria; prohibits department from changing lead agency's allocation of funds provided in General Appropriations Act without legislative approval; requires contract between department & lead agency to specify rights & obligations to real property held by lead agency during term of contract.
FL HB 1069 -
Nursing Education Programs
12/30/2023 - Filed
Revises application requirements for nursing education programs; requires, rather than authorizes, certain degree requirements to be documented in specified manner; requires each program director to submit annual report & written remediation plan to Board of Nursing; requires board to deny application under certain circumstances; authorizes board to revoke approval of specified existing programs; requires board to terminate program under certain circumstances; authorizes certain DOH agents & employees to conduct onsite evaluations & inspections; authorizes DOH to collect evidence; revises rulemaking authority; removes provisions authorizing extension of program's probationary status.
FL HB 1073 - House Water Quality, Supply & Treatment Subcommittee
Mitigation
03/04/2024 - Laid on Table
Revises entities to & purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requires DEP & WMDs to authorize such sale & use; provides circumstances under which basins are considered to be credit-deficient; authorizes local governments with land in such basins to consider proposals from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands; requires specified agreements between local governments & applicants for mitigation banks; provides requirements for determining amount of credits awarded to such mitigation banks.
FL HB 1085 - Dan Daley
Required Life Skills Instruction
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Revises required instruction in Life skills that build confidence, support mental & emotional health, & enable students to overcome challenges to include career readiness, financial literacy, & home economics.
FL HB 1089 - Jason Shoaf
Special Risk Class
01/02/2024 - Filed
Redefining criteria for membership in FRS Special Risk Class.
FL HB 1095 - David A. Smith
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
02/28/2023 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Revises requirement for DCF relating to performance outcomes & measures; requires managing entities to lead implementation of coordinated system of care; removes provisions relating to contracts for provision of local substance abuse & mental health programs, state & district substance abuse & mental health plans, & financing of district programs & services; revises managing entity duties; removes requirement for certain managing entities to enter into memoranda of understanding relating to network accreditation & systems coordination.
FL HB 1119 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Withholding or Withdrawal of Life-prolonging Procedures
06/26/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-287
Provides requirements for court to modify or revoke authority of surrogate; requires guardian to file advance directive for health care with court; revises rights that may be removed from person by order determining incapacity; requires court approval to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging procedures of incapacitated persons; provides requirements for professional guardian to seek court approval; specifies procedures to be followed by court in acting on petition; provides requirements for initial & annual guardianship plans.
FL HB 115 - Hart
Criminal Rehabilitation
01/04/2023 - Filed
Specifies that one of primary purposes of sentencing is to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 to 65 percent; revises provisions concerning gain-time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; revises limits on award of gain-time.
FL HB 1169 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Coordinated Systems of Care for Children
02/15/2024 - Added to Second Reading Calendar
Defines "care coordinator"; requires school districts to be guided by & adhere to specified mental health & treatment support system for children; requires school districts to contract with managing entities to provide care coordinators for students; requires care coordinator provided by managing entity be placed in school districts for specified purposes; requires school districts to address recommendations & meet specified performance outcomes; requires school districts to report annually to DOE on performance outcomes & allocation & expenditure of funding.
FL HB 1171 - House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Communications Fraud
02/19/2024 - PCS added to Judiciary Committee agenda
Provides for reclassification of certain offenses when committed against persons 65 years of age or older, against minors, or against persons with disabilities; provides for civil actions for damages by persons whose image or likeness was used in scheme to defraud with their consent.
FL HB 1197 - Angela Nixon
Early Child Care Universal Voucher Program
01/13/2024 - Now in Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
Establishes Early Child Care Universal Voucher Program; & provides program, funding, ELC, DOE, provider, student, & parent requirements.
FL HB 1199 - Hillary Cassel
Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults
03/06/2023 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Requires AHCA, in consultation with Commission on Mental Health & Substance Abuse, to conduct study for specified purpose; provides requirements for study; provides duties for agency based on findings in study; requires agency to submit report of findings & recommendations to Governor & Legislature by specified date.
FL HB 1207 - Jason S. Shoaf
Operation New Hope
06/22/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-276
Authorizes DOC to contract with Operation New Hope for specified services.
FL HB 121 - House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Specialty License Plates
02/02/2024 - Now in Infrastructure Strategies Committee
Directs DHSMV to develop Project Addiction: Reversing Stigma license plate; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plate.
FL HB 1223 - House Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
Public PreK-12 Educational Institution and Instruction Requirements
03/16/2023 - Now in Education & Employment Committee
Requires specified policies relating to person's sex at public K-12 educational institutions; prohibits specified actions relating to use of certain titles & pronouns; & revises requirements for instruction on sexual orientation & gender identity in public schools.
FL HB 1227 - Thomas Patterson Maney
Problem-solving Courts
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 508
Revises requirements for data & information collection & reporting; revises admission requirements for pretrial substance abuse education & treatment intervention programs & misdemeanor pretrial substance abuse education & treatment intervention programs.
FL HB 1231 - Daryl Campbell
End-of-life Options
03/06/2023 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Establishes procedure to allow adult who has mental capacity & who has terminal condition & who makes fully informed decision that he or she no longer wants to live, to obtain medication to end his or her life; provides requirements for health care providers, health care facilities & DOH.
FL HB 1233 - Dean Black
Biological Sex
01/13/2024 - Now in Health & Human Services Committee
Defines terms relating to sex of individual in context of construction of Florida Statutes; provides that certain birth certificate statement determines whether person is male or female & may serve as committeeman or committeewoman, respectively; revises provisions related to applications for disability ID cards, application requirements for driver licenses & ID cards to replace references to term "gender" with term "sex"; prohibits DHSMV from issuing original or replacement driver licenses or ID cards that contain specified information; requires individual health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, health benefit plans, & health maintenance contracts that provide coverage for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures must also provide coverage for treatment to detransition from such sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; defines term "sex" for purposes of Florida Civil Rights Act; revises provisions related to remedies for unlawful discrimination to include protection on basis of sex, rather than gender.
FL HB 1273 - House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Reciprocity or Endorsement of Licensure
03/05/2024 - Laid on Table
Provides requirements for applicable board or DBPR relating to licensure by reciprocity & by endorsement; requires respective boards of occupations or DBPR to allow licensure by endorsement if applicant meets certain criteria; requires applicable health care regulatory boards or DOH to issue license or certificate to applicants who meet specified conditions; revises licensure by endorsement requirements for practice of acupuncture, medicine, professional or practical nursing, certified nursing assistants, pharmacy, midwifery, speech-language pathology & audiology, nursing home administration, dietetics & nutrition, electrology, massage therapy, opticianry, physical therapy, physical therapist assistantship, psychology & school psychology, & clinical social work, marriage & family therapy, & mental health counseling.
FL HB 1275 - House Health & Human Services Committee
Persons with Disabilities Registry
07/05/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-312
Authorizes local law enforcement agencies to develop & maintain database for specified purposes; provides for enrollment in & removal from registry; specifies information registry may include; authorizes local law enforcement agencies to provide access to registry & relevant information from registry to law enforcement officers under certain circumstances.
FL HB 1283 - Anna V. Eskamani
Health Care
01/13/2024 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Requires covered entity to adopt policy relating to providing notice of its refused services; requires DOH to publish & maintain on its website current list of covered entities & their refused services & develop & administer public education & awareness program; revises timeframe in which physician may perform termination of pregnancy; requires AHCA to provide Medicaid reimbursement for medically necessary treatment for or related to gender dysphoria or comparable or equivalent diagnoses; prohibits AHCA from discriminating in reimbursement on basis of recipient's gender identity or that recipient is transgender individual.
FL HB 1285 - Jennifer Canady
Education
01/13/2024 - Now in Choice & Innovation Subcommittee
Revises provisions relating to virtual instruction programs, dropout prevention & academic interventions & programs, requirements for instructional materials publishers & manufacturers, turnaround schools, & Education Practices Commission; & establishes Purple Star School District Program; requires administration of ASVAB; establishes specialized transfer degrees; & repeals Florida College System institution employment equity accountability program.
FL HB 1301 - House Judiciary Committee
Parenting and Time-sharing of Minor Children
06/29/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-301
Removes requirement for unanticipated change in circumstances in order to modify parenting plan or time-sharing schedule; creates rebuttable presumption that equal time-sharing is in best interests of child; provides standard of evidence to rebut such presumption; requires court to evaluate certain factors & make specific written findings of fact when creating or modifying time-sharing schedule; authorizes modification of time-sharing schedule.
FL HB 1303 - Yvonne Hayes Hinson
Reentry Resource Centers
01/13/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Provides inmate transition services through reentry resource centers; specifies types of assistance that should be included; specifies process for provision of such assistance; provides goals; requires DOC to coordinate with other departments for certain purposes.
FL HB 1305 - House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Department of Transportation
05/12/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-70
Increasing the maximum amount of debt service coverage that must be transferred from the State Transportation Trust Fund to the Right-of-Way Acquisition and Bridge Construction Trust Fund; authorizing the department to provide up to 100 percent of project costs for certain eligible projects in rural areas of opportunity; authorizing installation of an automated license plate recognition system within the right-of-way of any road on the State Highway System for a specified purpose; prohibiting use of such system for certain purposes, etc.
FL HB 1309 - Jennifer Canady
Community Mobile Support Teams
01/13/2024 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Requires DCF to contract with managing entities for community mobile support teams to place certain crisis counselors within local law enforcement agencies to conduct follow-up contacts with certain persons; provides requirements for crisis counselors, community mobile support teams, & certain community mental health centers.
FL HB 1315 - Jeff Holcomb
Independent Incentivized Prison Program
01/31/2024 - Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
Requires DOC to establish an independent incentivized prison program for nonviolent offenders; provides location requirements for program; specifies admission criteria & program requirements; provides reporting requirements.
FL HB 1327 - Jenna Persons-Mulicka
Charitable Organizations
01/13/2024 - Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Prohibits solicitation or acceptance of contributions or anything of value from foreign sources of concern; requires DACS to create Honest Services Registry, publish registry on its website, & adopt rules; provides requirements for charitable organizations to be included on registry.
FL HB 1339 - House Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Department of Management Services
02/02/2024 - Now in State Administration & Technology Appropriations Subcommittee
Exempts certain positions from Career Service System; provides for salary & benefits for such positions to be established by DMS; revises specified requirements for certain contract managers; provides criteria for determining if vendor has its principal place of business in Florida; creates price preferences for certain bids or proposals from vendors; prohibits preference from exceeding certain percentage; requires certain disclosures; provides order of preference; removes certain preferences.
FL HB 1349 - Lauren Uhlich Melo
Mental Health Treatment
06/21/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-270
Authorizes DCF to issue conditional designation to facilities for limited period to allow facilities to implement corrective measures; provides forensic clients must receive psychiatric medication therapy before admission to state mental health treatment facility; specifies some possible treatment alternatives appropriate for mental illness of criminal defendant who is incompetent to proceed; revises deadline for report on persons committed for treatment; revises provisions relating to competency hearings.
FL HB 1355 - Michele K. Rayner
Education
01/13/2024 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Revises provisions relating to certain trainings & instruction, school district procedures & requirements relating to parental notification, classroom instruction, instructional materials, school personnel training, BOG reviews, state university performance-based incentives, required instruction, DEI program, & general education core courses; repeals provisions relating to personal titles & pronouns.
FL HB 1357 - Michele K. Rayner
Mental Health Education and Training
01/13/2024 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Requires all persons working in roles involving direct interaction with youth to undergo mental health education & training; provides requirements for education & training; requires DCF to establish & maintain dedicated spaces easily accessible to youth for dissemination of information & resources related to mental health; provides that department, in collaboration with relative agencies, is responsible for implementation & enforcement.
FL HB 1365 - House Judiciary Committee
Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping
03/04/2024 - Placed on 3rd reading
Prohibits counties & municipalities from authorizing or otherwise allowing public camping or sleeping on public property without certification of designated public property by DCF; authorizes counties to designate public property for such uses for specified time period; requires counties to establish specified standards & procedures relating to such property; authorizes DCF to inspect such property & to issue notice; provides exception during specified emergencies.
FL HB 1381 - Daniel Antonio Alvarez
Interstate Mobility
01/13/2024 - Now in Commerce Committee
Requires respective boards of occupations, or DBPR if there is no board, to allow licensure by endorsement if applicant meets certain criteria; requires applicants of professions that require fingerprints for criminal history checks to submit such fingerprints before board or DBPR issues license by endorsement; requires that costs associated with fingerprint processing be borne by applicant; if fingerprints are submitted through authorized agency or vendor, requiring such agency or vendor to collect processing fees & remit them to FDLE; requires applicable health care regulatory boards, or DOH if there is no board, to issue license or certificate to applicants who meet specified conditions; requires DOH to verify certain information using National Practitioner Data Bank; specifies circumstances under which person is ineligible for license; authorizes boards or DOH to revoke license upon specified finding; authorizes boards or DOH to require that applicants successfully complete jurisprudential examination; requires DOH to submit annual report to Governor & Legislature by specified date; revises licensure by endorsement requirements for practice of acupuncture, medicine, professional or practical nursing, pharmacy, midwifery, speech-language pathology & audiology, nursing home administration, occupational therapy, radiology, respiratory therapy, dietetics & nutrition, electrology, massage therapy, opticianry, physical therapy, physical therapist assistantship, psychology & school psychology, & clinical social work, marriage & family therapy, & mental health counseling, respectively; authorizes boards & DOH to continue processing applications for licensure by endorsement, as authorized under Florida Statutes (2023), for specified timeframe.
FL HB 1385 - David Silvers
Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Lewdness
01/13/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Prohibits prostitution; provides for admission of certain testimony at trial; requires persons convicted of violations to attend educational program; provides program requirements; repeals provisions relating to forcing, compelling, or coercing another to become prostitute; prohibits maintaining space for commercial sex; provides enhanced penalties for certain violations; prohibits commercial sexual exploitation; deletes former provisions relating to prostitution & related acts; requires civil penalty; provides for disposition of proceeds; authorizes judicial circuits to establish educational programs for persons convicted of or charged with violations; provides program requirements; revises expunction eligibility; requires return of any fines, fees, & restitution paid by petitioner as result of conviction or convictions vacated.
FL HB 1387 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Department of Health
05/12/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-71
Prohibits certain research relating to enhanced potential pandemic pathogens; provides requirement for researchers applying for state or local funding; prohibits medical marijuana treatment centers from producing certain marijuana products; provides requirements for marijuana packaging & labeling, medical marijuana treatment center advertising, & medical marijuana testing laboratories & employee background screening; provides requirements for live birth, death, & fetal death records & marriage licenses & certain dissolution-of-marriage records; revises requirements for applicants for certification or recertification as EMT or paramedic; exempts certain applicants for certification as certified nursing assistant from portion of competency examination; revises scope of practice for audiologists & hearing aid specialists; revises membership requirements for members of Board of Hearing Aid Specialists.
FL HB 1389 - Hillary Cassel
Digital Voyeurism
01/13/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Redesignates "video voyeurism" as "digital voyeurism"; revises elements; provides reduced criminal penalties for certain violations by persons who are under 19 years of age; specifies that each instance of certain violations is separate offense; provides for reclassification of certain violations by family or household members of victim.
FL HB 1395 - Anna V. Eskamani
Student Elopement
01/13/2024 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Requires public schools to create School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team & school elopement plan; provides requirements for such team & plan; requires creation of student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; provides requirements for such guides; requires public schools to annually submit their plans to district school board.
FL HB 1413 - Lisa Dunkley
911 Public Safety Telecommunicators
01/13/2024 - Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Revises FRS Special Risk Class criteria to include members employed as 911 public safety telecommunicators; specifying number of creditable years needed to receive a full retirement benefit without penalty; requires such members to have retirement benefits calculated in accordance with provisions for Regular Class members.
FL HB 1425 - Taylor Michael Yarkosky
Juvenile Justice
01/13/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Authorizes employees of DJJ & contracted providers to possess & administer opioid antagonists; provides immunity from liability for administration; replacing term "gender-specific" with "sex-specific"; eliminates minimum-risk nonresidential restrictiveness level; redesignates "nonsecure residential restrictiveness level" as "moderate-risk residential level"; revises provisions concerning transitioning child to & from secure detention care & supervised release detention care; revises provisions concerning juvenile justice circuit advisory boards.
FL HB 1429 - Melony M. Bell
District and School Advisory Councils
01/13/2024 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Renaming "district advisory councils" & "school advisory councils" as "district community advisory boards" & "community advisory boards"; & revises requirements for such boards.
FL HB 1441 - House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
Department of Health
03/05/2024 - Laid on Table
Creates Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program within DOH; requires program to award grants for certain scientific & clinical research; specifies entities eligible to apply for grants; specifies types of applications that may be considered for grant funding; provides for competitive, peer-reviewed application & selection process.
FL HB 145 -
Sales of Ammunition
10/17/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition.
FL HB 1463 - Michael Paul Beltran
Childhood Mental Health, Safety, and Welfare
03/09/2023 - Now in Commerce Committee
Revises array of services offered by child & adolescent mental health system of care; requires specified professionals to complete course on technology addiction & pornography addiction; requires warning label be affixed to packaging of certain digital devices; requires commercial entity to verify age of individuals attempting to access certain material online; prohibits entity from retaining personal identifying information; revises definition of term "harmful to minors"; revises circumstances under which distribution of harmful material to minors is deemed to have occurred; provides exception for certain school-related materials; limits proportion of instructional time that may be delivered in an electronic or digital format; provides that instructional time includes certain standardized or progress monitoring assessments; requires schools to adopt policy regarding use of wireless communications device by students; requires district school boards to adopt policy that prohibits individual from posting student's image or location information on social media platform; removes time limit for parent of public school student to file petition to contest school board's adoption of specific instructional material; requires each district school board to annually publish list of websites for use by students for instructional purposes.
FL HB 147 - Hillary Cassel
Financial Assistance for Mental Health Professionals
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Establishes mental health profession scholarship & loan forgiveness program within DOH for specified purposes; & provides requirements for DOH, applicants, award of scholarships, loan forgiveness, & program recipients.
FL HB 1471 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Health Care Provider Accountability
06/29/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-307
Revises rights of licensed nursing home facility residents; creates cause of action for ex parte temporary injunction against continued unlicensed activity; authorizes ACHA to provide records to local law enforcement & state attorneys' offices; provides standard of care requirements for office surgeries; prohibits certain office surgeries; provides physician, office, & procedure requirements.
FL HB 1473 - House Judiciary Committee
School Safety
02/27/2024 - Received
Revises provisions & establishes reporting requirements for school guardian programs & school guardians; revises school safety requirements for DOE, school districts, charter schools, & school safety specialists.
FL HB 1481 - Mike Beltran
Taxes, Licenses, and Fees
01/13/2024 - Now in Ways & Means Committee
Revising provisions related to indigent care & trauma center surtax, fees for certificates of title, license taxes, voluntary contributions, International Registration Plans, fees for driver licenses & identification cards, driver license endorsements, citrus assessments, recreational licenses & permits, court costs for criminal offenses, state park fees, fees & costs for certain firearm licenses, & tax extensions.
FL HB 1509 - House Judiciary Committee
Public Records
02/19/2024 - PCS added to State Affairs Committee agenda
Provides exemption from public records requirements for records relating to school guardians which are held by FDLE.
FL HB 151 - Daley
Sales of Ammunition
01/17/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition.
FL HB 1517 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
06/21/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-273
Creates workgroup for continuum of guidance & information for individuals with developmental disabilities; requires APD to make eligibility determinations within specified timeframes; provides requirements for developmental disabilities home & community-based services Medicaid waiver program; revises background screening requirements for direct service providers; requires licensure of adult day training programs; provides that for purposes of disciplinary action for certain violations, licensee is ultimately responsible for care of clients in its facility or participants of program; authorizes agency to immediately suspend or revoke license of adult day training programs.
FL HB 1547 - House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Technology Transparency
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/SB 262
Prohibits officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibits governmental entities from initiating or maintaining certain agreements or working relationships with social media platforms; providing exceptions; prohibits controller from collecting certain consumer information; requires collectors to provide notice to consumers about data collection, sharing, & selling practices; provides consumers right to request data be disclosed, deleted, or corrected & to opt-in or opt-out of sale or sharing of data; provides social media protections for children; provides nondiscrimination measures, methods for requesting data & opting-in or opting-out of sale or sharing of data, private cause of action, & enforcement; preempts regulation of consumer date collection, sharing, & selling to the state; requires certain moneys to be deposited in Legal Affairs Revolving Trust Fund.
FL HB 1549 - House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
Health Care
02/21/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/SB 7016
Revises provisions relating to medical education, public health, health care practitioners, & health care facilities to allow more access to health care services; creates the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact, the Practice of Audiology & Speech-language Pathology Compact, & the Physical Therapy Interstate Compact.
FL HB 1577 - House Judiciary Committee
Crime Victim Compensation Claims
06/29/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-303
Provides for waiver of deadlines for filing for victim compensation claims if delay occurred because of delay in testing of DNA or DNA profile matching from material collected as evidence related to sexual offense.
FL HB 1583 - Kevin M. Steele
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services
01/13/2024 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Creates Substance Use Disorder Housing Advisory Council; requires USF College of Public Health to assist council in conducting study to evaluate national best practice standards for specified purposes; provides for funding of study; requires council to conduct review of statewide zoning codes for specified purposes; authorizes addiction treatment services to be provided through for-profit providers; provides that certification of recovery residences that meet specified standards protects certain persons; requires certain recovery residences to keep specified records confidential; prohibits local law, ordinance, or regulation from regulating duration or frequency of resident stay at certain recovery residences.
FL HB 1617 - House Health & Human Services Committee
Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals
03/05/2024 - Laid on Table
Specifies manner in which hospitals may seek designation as behavioral health teaching hospital & requirements hospital must meet to receive such designation; establishes Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce within Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute; establishes Florida Behavioral Health Professions Scholarship & Grants Program; requires DCF to contract for study.
FL HB 1619 - Mike Beltran
Carrying and Possession of Weapons and Firearms
01/13/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Prohibits carrying of concealed handgun or unconcealed firearm without license & possession of such handgun or firearm without valid identification; repeals provisions relating to arrests without warrant & exemption from licensing requirements for law enforcement officers; allows open carrying of any otherwise legal firearm or electric weapon or device; revises list of places into which person may not carry handgun or concealed weapon or concealed firearm; provides exceptions; deletes provisions relating to open carry, collection of fees for licenses to carry concealed weapons or concealed firearms, allowing school districts to restrict possession of firearm in vehicle, exceptions to statutory protections of right to keep & bear arms in motor vehicles, temporary ex parte risk protection orders, & eliminating liability for acts or omissions related to obtaining certain risk protection orders; provides indigent person right to counsel in risk protection proceedings; authorizes, rather than requires, court to issue risk protection order in certain circumstances; revises factors to be considered in determining whether to grant risk protection order; revises definition of “bump-fire stock.”
FL HB 1627 - Daryl Campbell
Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
01/13/2024 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Requires advisory council on brain & spinal cord injuries to annually submit specified report to Governor & Legislature; authorizes State Surgeon General, in consultations with advisory council, to issue health advisory with respect to contact sports for minors; authorizes Governor, upon advice of State Surgeon General, to set minimum age for contact sports, along with reasonable waivers & exceptions.
FL HB 1639 - Select Committee on Health Innovation
Gender and Biological Sex
03/01/2024 - Received
Defines "sex"; requires certain applications & licenses to indicate person's sex, rather than gender; provides requirements for health insurance policies, group health insurance policies, health benefit plans, & health maintenance contracts relating to coverage for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures & certain mental health & therapeutic services.
FL HB 1663 - Tom Fabricio
Child Protective Investigations
01/13/2024 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Revises the definition of "abuse"; prohibits DCF from initiating protective investigation based solely on parent's religious beliefs or ideology; requires child protective investigator to provide brief summary, verbal notification, & verbal or written summary of certain information to parents & legal custodians; provides requirements for such summaries & notification.
FL HB 169 - Lopez, V.
Licensed Counseling for First Responders
01/17/2023 - Now in Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee
Requires employing agency of first responder to pay for certain licensed counseling for first responders; requires such counseling to be completed within specified timeframe; prohibits employing agency from requiring first responder to use leave for such counseling; authorizes first responder to select licensed mental health professional; prohibits payment by employing agency for such counseling from creating presumption of compensable occupational disease.
FL HB 183 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Medicaid Step-therapy Protocols for Drugs for Serious Mental Illness Treatments
04/12/2023 - Now in Health & Human Services Committee
Defines "serious mental illness"; requires AHCA to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization; directs agency to include rate impact of this act in certain program rates that become effective on specified date.
FL HB 185 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Dependent Children
12/18/2023 - Now in Appropriations Committee
Revises laws relating to dependent children including requiring GAL for each child & attorneys ad litem if court makes certain determinations; authorizes GALs & attorneys ad litem to represent child in other proceedings; access records, request continuances, & receive notices; provides duties & responsibilities of GALs; requiring Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office to provide oversight & assistance to attorneys ad litem, assist child find supportive adult, & designate local DSOs; requires Office of Continuing Care to work in coordination with Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office; authorizes Pathway to Prosperity program to provide grants.
FL HB 189 - House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Gaming Control
02/19/2024 - Added to Judiciary Committee agenda
Prohibits falsely personating personnel from Gaming Control Commission; specifies violation of prohibition against keeping gambling house must be committed knowingly; requires court to order offender to pay fine if he or she is convicted of trafficking in slot machines or devices; prohibits person from making false statements regarding legality of slot machine or device to facilitate sale or delivery; prohibits person from transporting of specified number of other persons to facilitate illegal gambling; prohibits specified activities relating to advertisements if person knows or reasonably should know such material will be used to promote or facilitate illegal gambling; specifies regulation of gambling is expressly preempted to state; requires court to consider amount of currency seized that is connected to specified violations relating to illegal gambling when determining bail.
FL HB 195 - Kevin D. Chambliss
Mental Health Crisis Intervention Training for Law Enforcement Officers
01/05/2024 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Provides requirements for mental health crisis intervention training for law enforcement officers.
FL HB 201 - Maney
Criminal Defendants Adjudicated Incompetent to Proceed
01/12/2023 - Filed
Requires DCF initiate transfer evaluation to determine if defendant adjudicated incompetent to proceed meets criteria for involuntary civil commitment if it determines that defendant will not or is unlikely to gain competence.
FL HB 207 -
Social Media Protection for Minors
11/02/2023 - Now in Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Requires social media platforms to disclose policies & provide resources, measures, & disclaimers; authorizes social media platforms to post compliance statements on Internet homepage or user login page; prohibits schools from using or having social media platform accounts & requiring students to register, enroll, or participate in social media platforms for educational purposes.
FL HB 209 -
Possession or Use of a Firearm in a Sensitive Location
11/02/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Defines "sensitive location"; prohibits possession or use of firearm in sensitive location; provides exceptions.
FL HB 21 - House Judiciary Committee
Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program
02/16/2024 - Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
Establishes Dozier School for Boys & Okeechobee School Victim Compensation Program within DLA; requires DLA to provide specified notice & accept & process applications for payment of compensation claims; requires DLA to pay specified compensation amount to approved applicants; limits compensation applicant may receive; authorizes Commissioner of Education to award standard high school diploma to specified persons.
FL HB 211 -
Licensed Counseling for First Responders
10/19/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Requires employing agency of first responder to pay for certain licensed counseling for first responders; requires such counseling to be completed within specified timeframe; prohibits employing agency from requiring first responder to use specified leave for such counseling; authorizes first responder to select licensed mental health professional & provides requirements for employing agency related thereto; prohibits payment by employing agency for such counseling from creating presumption of compensable occupational disease; prohibits employing agency from accessing first responder's medical records except under certain circumstances.
FL HB 217 - Rayner-Goolsby
Rights of Children
01/17/2023 - Filed
Creates "Children's Bill of Rights Act"; provides definitions, rights of children, & protections of such rights; revises name of children's commission; revises provisions relating membership and duties of commission; provides for staff appointments, information gathering, & rulemaking authority.
FL HB 21C - Anna V. Eskamani
Housing
11/09/2023 - Died, introduction refused
Creates Department of Housing & Tenant Rights; provides for secretary be appointed by Governor & confirmed by Senate; provides purpose of department; requires department submit a report; revises provisions relating to residential tenancies, landlords, & tenants, including requirements for rental agreements, security deposits, notices, evictions, rights to purchase, rent control, impact fees, & documentary stamp taxes.
FL HB 235 -
Criminal Rehabilitation
11/02/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Specifies to rehabilitate offender to transition back to community successfully is one of primary purposes of sentencing; reduces minimum sentence that must be served by defendant from 85 percent of sentence to 65 percent; revises provisions concerning gain-time to provide for outstanding deed gain-time, good behavior time, & rehabilitation credits; revises limits on awards.
FL HB 237 -
Pregnant Women in Custody
11/02/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Requires every female who is arrested & not released within 72 hours after arrest be administered pregnancy test upon request; requires each municipal or county detention facility notify each arrested female of right to request pregnancy test; authorizes sentencing court to stay beginning of incarceration; authorizes court to order pregnant woman to comply with specified terms & conditions during stay; requires that woman be offered specified assessment & services; requires detention facilities to collect & report specified information.
FL HB 255 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Psychiatric Treatments
02/05/2024 - 1st Reading
Defines "electroconvulsive treatment" & "psychosurgical procedure"; provides only physician may perform such treatment & procedures; prohibits performance of such treatment & procedures on certain persons; provides exception.
FL HB 277 - Hillary Cassel
Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Requires AHCA, in consultation with Commission on Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder, to conduct study for specified purpose; provides requirements for study; provides duties of agency upon completion of study; requires agency to submit report of its findings & recommendations to Governor & Legislature by specified date.
FL HB 299 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Education and Training For Alzheimer's Disease and Related Forms of Dementia
06/22/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-278
Requires DEA to offer education about Alzheimer's disease & related forms of dementia to general public; requires employees of covered providers, health agency or nurse registry or companion or homemaker service provider, or nursing home, assisted living facility, adult family-care home, or adult day care center to complete specified training; authorizes completed training hours to count toward preservice orientation, other required training, or continuing education hours.
FL HB 323 - Peggy Gossett-Seidman
Caregiving Youth
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Creates Florida Caregiving Youth Task Force within DOH for specified purpose; provides for membership, meetings, & duties of task force; requires task force to submit report; requires DOE to maintain & make available to school districts comprehensive list of specified information; requires each middle & high school to have designated caregiving youth liaison; provides that caregiving youth may count hours devoted to caring for household member toward certain community service hour requirements; exempts caregiving youth from payment of certain tuition & fees.
FL HB 33 - Hunschofsky
Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
12/23/2022 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Creates Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact; authorizes specified psychologists licensed in compact states to practice telepsychology & practice temporarily in other compact states; provides for construction, severability, rulemaking, & state enforcement.
FL HB 335 - Carolina Amesty
School Safety Training
02/13/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Revises firearm safety & proficiency training requirements for school guardian certification.
FL HB 337 - Jeff Holcomb
Workers' Compensation Benefits for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
03/20/2023 - Added to Constitutional Rights, Rule of Law & Government Operations Subcommittee agenda
Provides posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by 911 public safety telecommunicator or crime scene investigator is compensable occupational disease; provides evidentiary standard required; specifies benefits do not require physical injury & are not subject to apportionment or limitations; provides requirements for benefits offered to 911 public safety telecommunicator or crime scene investigator for posttraumatic stress disorder; specifies when claim for posttraumatic stress disorder must be noticed; requires employing agencies to provide mental health training.
FL HB 341 - House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Designation of a Diagnosis on Motor Vehicle Registrations
03/01/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Requires language on application form for motor vehicle registration to allow applicant to indicate that applicant has been diagnosed with, or is parent or legal guardian of child or ward who has been diagnosed with, specified disabilities or disorders; requires specified designation to be included in motor vehicle record; prohibits inclusion of specified information in motor vehicle record for certain purposes; requires DHSMV to allow specified persons to update motor vehicle registration to include or remove specified designation at any time.
FL HB 343 - Allison Tant
Art Therapy
02/01/2023 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Requires DOH to license professional art therapists & register art therapist interns if they meet specified requirements; requires art therapist intern to practice under supervision until licensed; provides for licensure by endorsement; requires board & DOH to adopt rules establishing requirements for annual renewal of professional art therapist licenses & art therapist intern registrations; provides for inactive licenses & license reactivation; provides for license denial & disciplinary action; prohibits practice of professional art therapy for compensation & use of certain titles, letters, abbreviations, & insignia without valid, active license; provides criminal penalties; exempts certain persons from licensure & registration requirements.
FL HB 345 - Allison Tant
Fees/Art Therapy
02/01/2023 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Requires applicant for professional art therapist license & art therapist intern registration to pay nonrefundable application fee set by rule of Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, & Mental Health Counseling; provides for fees for annual license & registration renewal, inactive licenses, & license reactivation.
FL HB 381 -
AMIkids, Inc.
11/22/2023 - Now in Justice Appropriations Subcommittee
Authorizes DJJ, DOE & DCF to contract with AMIkids, Inc., for specified services.
FL HB 385 - House Civil Justice Subcommittee
Safe Exchange of Minor Children
01/12/2024 - Amendment 581219 filed
Provides requirements for parenting plan relating to exchange of child; requires court to order parties to parenting plan to exchange child at neutral safe exchange location or supervised visitation program; requires sheriffs to designate areas as neutral safe exchange locations; provides immunity from liability; revises forms for injunctions for protection against domestic violence; requires court-ordered injunctions for protection against domestic violence to designate locations for exchange of child of parties.
FL HB 391 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Home Health Aides for Medically Fragile Children
06/02/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-183
Requires home health agencies to ensure tasks delegated to home health aides for medically fragile children meet specified requirements; provides individuals exemption from costs associated with specified training; authorizes home health aides for medically fragile children to perform tasks delegated by registered nurse; requires AHCA to conduct annual assessment of certified health aide program; requires agency to submit report to Governor & Legislature; requires agency to establish a specified fee schedule; provides appropriations.
FL HB 399 -
School Employees
11/22/2023 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Requires risk protection orders include whether respondent is serving as district school board member or employed as instructional personnel; requires court issuing risk protection order to require petitioner to immediately notify respondent's employer of issuance of order if respondent meets specified criteria; requires instructional personnel to disclose to employer any prior arrests & any criminal records that were expunged.
FL HB 403 - House Transportation & Modals Subcommittee
Specialty License Plates
03/04/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Exempts collegiate license plates from certain discontinuation & presale voucher requirements for specialty license plates; requires DHSMV to reauthorize previously discontinued collegiate license plates; renames & revises words appearing on certain plates; directs DHSMV to develop specified plates; provides for distribution & use of fees collected from sale of plates.
FL HB 439 -
Corporal Punishment
11/22/2023 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Requires charter schools to comply with corporal punishment laws; removes provisions authorizing teachers to administer corporal punishment; provides duties & responsibilities for principals relating to corporal punishment; requires specified notification be provided to parents; provides requirements for student to be disciplined using corporal punishment; prohibits use of corporal punishment on specified students; provides reporting requirements.
FL HB 445 -
Water Safety
11/22/2023 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Requires comprehensive age-appropriate & developmentally appropriate K-12 instruction on water safety; specifies requirements for such instruction; requires students to be provided with literature on water safety.
FL HB 481 - Lauren Uhlich Melo
Physician Assistants' Prescriptive Authority
01/24/2023 - Filed
Removes requirements that physician assistants may only prescribe or dispense drugs under physician's supervision.
FL HB 491 - Karen Gonzalez Pittman
Access to Appropriate Medications for Serious Mental Illness
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Requires AHCA to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization; directs agency to include rate impact of this act in certain program rates that become effective on specified date.
FL HB 5001 - House Appropriations Committee
General Appropriations Act
03/08/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Provides moneys for annual period beginning July 1, 2024, & ending June 30, 2025, & supplemental appropriations for period ending June 30, 2024, to pay salaries & other expenses, capital outlay—buildings & other improvements, & for other specified purposes of various agencies of state government.
FL HB 5003 - House Appropriations Committee
Implementing the 2024-2025 General Appropriations Act
03/08/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Implements specified appropriations of the General Appropriations Act for 2023-2024 fiscal year.
FL HB 51 - Allison Tant
Art Therapy
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Requires DOH to license professional art therapists & register art therapist interns if they meet specified requirements; requires art therapist intern to practice under supervision until licensed; provides for licensure by endorsement; requires board & DOH to adopt rules establishing requirements for annual renewal of professional art therapist licenses & art therapist intern registrations; provides for inactive licenses & license reactivation; provides for license denial & disciplinary action; prohibits practice of professional art therapy for compensation & use of certain titles, letters, abbreviations, & insignia without valid, active license; provides criminal penalties; exempts certain persons from licensure & registration requirements.
FL HB 5101 - House PreK-12 Appropriations Subcommittee
Education
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-245
Revises provisions relating to Just Read, Florida! Office, K-12 funding & FEFP, developmental research schools, FLVS, charter schools, & Family Empowerment Scholarship Program; & creates heroes in classroom sign-on bonus.
FL HB 529 - House Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
Pub. Rec./Photographs, Recordings, and Reports of Autopsies of Suicide Victims
03/04/2024 - Laid on Table
Creates exemptions from public records requirements for photograph or video or audio recording of suicide of person & autopsy reports of suicide victims; requires that viewing, copying, listening to, or other handling of such photograph or video or audio recording or autopsy reports be under direct supervision of custodian of record or his or her designee; provides criminal penalties; provides for retroactive application; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemptions.
FL HB 5301 - House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
Trust Funds/Opioid Settlement Trust Fund/DCF
04/04/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 7030
Creates Opioid Settlement Trust Fund within DCF; provides for future review & termination; providing the source of funds; providing an exemption from a certain service charge; requiring funds to revert under certain conditions.
FL HB 537 - House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Custody and Supervision of Specified Offenders
05/26/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-146
Excludes certain offenders from eligibility to receive basic gain-time & incentive gain-time; excludes certain offenders from eligibility for specified reductions to term of supervision; requires court to impose additional conditions of supervision on specified offenders.
FL HB 543 - House Judiciary Committee
Public Safety
02/24/2023 - CS Filed
Authorizes person to carry concealed weapon or firearm if he or she is licensed to do so or meets specified requirements; requires person who is carrying concealed weapon or firearm without license to carry identification & display upon demand by law enforcement; prohibits person who is carrying concealed weapon or firearm without license from carrying such weapon or firearm in specified locations; authorizes nonresident to carry concealed weapon or firearm in this state if he or she meets same requirements as resident; requires Office of Safe Schools to develop behavioral threat management operational process; authorizes private school to request sheriff in county of private school establish guardian program.
FL HB 559 - Cyndi Stevenson
Adoptions
01/05/2024 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Requires adoption entities to submit annual report with certain information to DCF; requires department to retain electronic copy of certain documentation; revises amount of authorized fees, costs, & expenses; prohibits & authorizes court to reject certain fees; requires court to include written determination of reasonableness if court approves fees, costs, & expenses in excess of certain limits; requires certain information to be included in annual report department submits to Governor & Legislature; revises provisions relating to the statewide adoption exchange.
FL HB 561 - Daryl Campbell
End-of-life Options
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Establishes procedure to allow adult who has mental capacity & who has terminal condition & who makes fully informed decision that he or she no longer wants to live, to obtain medication to end his or her life; provides requirements for health care providers, health care facilities & DOH.
FL HB 563 -
Persons with Lived Experience
11/30/2023 - Now in Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Provides that person with lived experiences seeking position of employment with certain entities may request certification attesting that such person is qualified applicant for background screening purposes; requires entities to submit signed attestation, under penalty of perjury, to FDLE for background screening; prescribing screening requirements; provides exemption from disqualification.
FL HB 591 - House Regulatory Reform & Economic Development Subcommittee
Social Media Protection for Minors
04/28/2023 - Received
Requires social media platforms to disclose policies & provide resources, measures, & disclaimers; authorizes social media platforms to post compliance statements on Internet homepage or platform user login page; prohibits schools from using or having account on social media platforms & from requiring students to register, enroll, or participate in social media platforms for educational purposes.
FL HB 6001 -
Relief/Mark Lagatta/Department of Transportation
12/06/2023 - Now in Appropriations Committee
Provides appropriation to compensate Mark LaGatta for injuries & damages sustained as result of negligence of DOT; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees.
FL HB 6003 - Fabricio
Relief/Maury Hernandez/Department of Corrections
12/27/2022 - Filed
Provides appropriation to compensate Maury Hernandez for injuries & damages sustained as consequence of alleged negligence of DOC in course of his employment; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees.
FL HB 6005 -
Relief/Maury Hernandez/Department of Corrections
10/05/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Provides appropriation to compensate Maury Hernandez for injuries & damages sustained as consequence of DOC's failures to enforce probation laws, regulations, & policies; provides limitation on payment of compensation & attorney fees.
FL HB 6007 - House Civil Justice Subcommittee
Relief/Julia Perez/St. Johns County Sheriff's Office
03/01/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Provides for relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; provides for appropriation of funds to compensate Julia Perez for personal injuries & damages sustained as result of negligence of employee of St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; provides legislative intent for waiver of certain lien interests; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees.
FL HB 6009 -
Relief/Patricia Ermini/Lee County Sheriff's Office
11/02/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Provides appropriation to compensate Patricia Ermini for injuries sustained as result of negligence of Lee County Sheriff's Office; provides limitation on payment of attorney fees.
FL HB 6023 - Taylor Yarkosky
Relief/Julia Perez/St. Johns County Sheriff's Office
03/09/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Provides appropriation to Julia Perez as compensation for personal injuries & damages resulting from negligence of employee of St. Johns County Sheriff's Office; provides legislative intent for waiver of certain lien interests; provides limitation on compensation & payment of attorney fees.
FL HB 633 - Kimberly Berfield
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Assistance Training Program
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Creates Mental Health & Substance Use Disorder Awareness & Assistance Training Program; requires DCF to establish program; provides program requirements; requires DCF to select coordinating agency; provides requirements for such coordinating agency; requires coordinating agency to submit reports to DCF.
FL HB 635 -
Child Care and Early Learning Providers
11/30/2023 - Now in Ways & Means Committee
Revises positions related to tax credits for corporations providing or paying for child care; licensing standards for child care facilities; child care personnel; minimum standards; child care regulation; & large family child care homes.
FL HB 655 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Suicide Prevention
03/13/2023 - Now in Health & Human Services Committee
Renames Commission on Mental Health & Substance Abuse; revises purposes of commission to include assessment of state's suicide prevention infrastructure; revises duties of commission to include duties relating to state's suicide prevention infrastructure; requires commission to submit annual interim reports for specified timeframe; revises date by which commission must submit its final report; extends repeal date of commission.
FL HB 663 -
Establishment of Paternity
12/07/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Creates presumption of legal father; authorizes certain persons to rebut such presumption by filing petition to determine paternity; provides requirements relating to petition, appointment of guardian ad litem & attorney ad litem, evidentiary hearings & trial, burden of proof, genetic testing, objections to test results, determining best interests of child, & final order determining paternity; authorizes & provides requirements for court to approve, grant, or modify parenting plan & establish child support orders.
FL HB 7009 - House Ethics, Elections & Open Government Subcommittee
OGSR/Mental Health Treatment and Services
02/15/2024 - Ordered enrolled
Removes scheduled repeal of exemption from public records requirements for petitions for voluntary & involuntary admission for mental health treatment, court orders, related records, & personal identifying information regarding persons seeking mental health treatment & services.
FL HB 7011 - House Rules Committee
Florida Statutes
03/16/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 32
Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; & improves clarity of statutes & facilitates their correct interpretation.
FL HB 7021 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
03/08/2024 - Message sent to senate
Revises written notice requirements relating to filing petitions for involuntary services; revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; revises actions that constitute unlawful activities relating to assessment & treatment & court actions relating to involuntary assessments.
FL HB 7023 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Pub. Rec. and Meetings/Mental Health and Substance Abuse
03/04/2024 - Message sent to senate
Specifies all hearings relating to mental health & substance abuse, respectively, are confidential & closed to public; provides exceptions; expands public records exemption to include certain petitions & applications; revises date for future legislative review & repeal; provides public necessity statements.
FL HB 7029 - House Rules Committee
Florida Statutes
01/17/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 74
Deletes provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replaces incorrect cross-references & citations; corrects grammatical, typographical, & like errors; removes inconsistencies, redundancies, & unnecessary repetition in statutes; & improves clarity of statutes & facilitating their correct interpretation.
FL HB 7037 - House Rules Committee
Florida Statutes
01/17/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to SB 82
Amends provisions to conform to section 147 of chapter 2023-173, Laws of Florida, which directs Division of Law Revision to prepare reviser's bill for 2024 Regular Session of Legislature to replace references to terms "DEO" & "Secretary of Economic Opportunity," wherever they occur in Florida Statutes, with terms "Department of Commerce" & "Secretary of Commerce," respectively.
FL HB 7039 - House Education Quality Subcommittee
Student Outcomes
05/16/2023 - Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
Revises provisions relating to instructional materials, programs & strategies, reading interventions & programs, New Worlds Reading Scholarship Accounts, specified FEFP funding, & students with educational deficiencies.
FL HB 7061 - House Health & Human Services Committee
Sheriffs Providing Child Protective Investigative Services
05/12/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-77
Removes provisions of law relating to sheriffs of certain counties providing child protective investigative services; requires sheriffs to transfer its CPI service functions to DCF; specifies which entity becomes custodian of files & documents; provides requirements for all grants & grant-related assets; authorizes DCF to extend private leases; authorizes DCF & sheriffs to enter into specified agreement; authorizes employees to transfer their employment to DCF; requires DCF to establish positions for such employees; provides benefits to employees who transfer their employment to DCF; requiring that the defense and indemnification of certain claims be in accordance with certain agreements, etc.
FL HB 715 - House Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Pub. Rec./Problem-solving Court Participant Records
03/22/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-32
Provides public records exemptions for specified veterans treatment court program records & mental health court program records; provides statement of public necessity.
FL HB 721 - House Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
Paid Family Leave Insurance
05/16/2023 - Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
Authorizes life insurers to transact paid family leave insurance; provides circumstances under which paid family leave insurance may be issued & purchased under paid family leave insurance policy; provides circumstances under which family leave insurance benefits may be provided; requires that paid family leave insurance policies specify details & requirements relating to covered circumstances; specifies requirements for policies relating to benefit periods, waiting periods, benefit amounts, certain offsets, & payment of benefits; provides that eligibility for family leave insurance benefits may be limited, excluded, or reduced, but any such limitation, exclusion, or reduction must be specified in policy; provides circumstances under which limitations, exclusions, & reductions are permissible; provides applicable provisions for calculating rates; provides that paid family leave insurance forms & riders are subject to review by OIR; specifies means by which policy must offer family leave insurance benefits.
FL HB 733 - House Education & Employment Committee
Middle School and High School Start Times
05/15/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-78
Provides requirements for middle school & high school start times; provides district school board requirements; requires charter schools to meet requirements relating to middle school & high school start times.
FL HB 771 - Webster Barnaby
Autonomous Practice for Certified Psychiatric Nurses
01/12/2024 - Added to Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee agenda
Authorizes advanced practice registered nurse who is certified as psychiatric nurse practitioner to engage in autonomous practice under certain circumstances.
FL HB 783 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Opioid Abatement
06/02/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-184
Establishes Statewide Council on Opioid Abatement within DCF; provides for purpose, membership, organization & support, & duties of the council.
FL HB 79 - Fabricio
Telehealth Practice Standards
12/27/2022 - Filed
Revises definition of term "telehealth."
FL HB 813 - House Civil Justice Subcommittee
Support for Dependent Adult Children
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/SB 226
Creates procedures & requirements for parents, guardians, or guardian advocates of dependent adult children to petition for support; prohibits child support order from terminating on child's 18th birthday; revises provisions relating to modification of child support orders & time-sharing; authorizes either parent to consent to mental health treatment of child; authorizes court to order father to pay fees, costs, & expenses to specified persons; prohibits child support guidelines from applying to certain cases.
FL HB 827 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Mental Health Professionals
02/08/2024 - Added to Second Reading Calendar
Reclassifies intern registrations as associate registrations for professions of clinical social work, marriage & family therapy, & mental health counseling; removes requirement that licensed mental health professional be present on premises when registered associates, formerly classified as registered interns, are providing clinical services in private practice setting.
FL HB 829 - David Ryan Silvers
Operation and Administration of the Baker Act
06/06/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-198
Requires DCF to provide specified information to certain individuals & organizations; requires DCF to maintain information handbook & repository of answers to frequently asked questions; provides requirements for such handbook & repository.
FL HB 843 - David Smith
Naturopathic Medicine
02/06/2024 - Added to Appropriations Committee agenda
Creates Board of Naturopathic Medicine within DOH; requires board, in conjunction with DOH, to establish disciplinary training program for board members; prohibits certain unlicensed persons from practicing naturopathic medicine or promoting, identifying, or describing themselves using specified titles or abbreviations; provides for licensure by examination & by endorsement, respectively, of naturopathic physicians; requires DOH & board to use DOH's investigative process to ensure that applicants meet applicable criteria; revises requirements for licensure renewal & continuing education requirements for naturopathic physicians; provides financial responsibility requirements as condition of licensure; establishes Naturopathic Medical Formulary Council; provides for membership of council; requires council to establish Naturopathic Medical Formulary.
FL HB 847 -
School Readiness Program
12/27/2023 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Revises criteria for child to receive priority for participation in school readiness program; provides eligibility requirements for school readiness program provider to receive specified funding.
FL HB 859 -
Grandparent Visitation
12/27/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Revises criteria required for grandparent of minor child to petition court for grandparent visitation.
FL HB 875 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Dependent Children
03/17/2023 - 1st Reading
Revises law relating to dependent children including requiring guardians ad litem for each child & attorneys ad litem if court makes certain determinations; authorizes attorneys ad litem to access records, request continuances & receive notices; provides duties & responsibilities of GALs; requiring Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office to provide oversight & assistance to attorneys ad litem, assist child find supportive adult, & designate local DSOs; authorizes Pathway to Prosperity program to provide grants.
FL HB 887 -
Guardianship
12/27/2023 - Now in Civil Justice Subcommittee
Revises provisions relating to guardianships, visitation rights of minor’s or alleged incapacitated person’s family, alternatives to guardianship, petitions for appointment of guardian, & verified inventory & annual accounting requirements; requires full reevaluation of need for guardianship after certain time; prohibits judges from overseeing reevaluation proceedings; requires court to impanel jury for certain purpose.
FL HB 903 - Dan Daley
Educator Certifications and Training
01/05/2024 - Now in Education Quality Subcommittee
Revises provisions relating to teacher & educator preparation programs, educator certification requirements, & educator inservice training requirements to require certified educators to receive training relating to mass casualty incidents.
FL HB 915 - House Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Outpatient Health Services
01/31/2024 - Now in Appropriations Committee
Revises requirements relating to voluntary admissions to facility for examination & treatment, ordering person for involuntary services & treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, & continuances of hearings; defines "involuntary outpatient placement."
FL HB 937 - Joe Casello
Purple Alert
01/05/2024 - Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Requires local law enforcement agencies to develop policies for local activation of Purple Alert for certain missing adults; specifies requirements; specifies duties of FDLE's Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse in event of state Purple Alert; specifies conditions under which local law enforcement agency may request clearinghouse to open case.
FL HB 939 - Philip Wayne "Griff" Griffitts, Jr.
Consumer Protection
01/05/2024 - Now in Insurance & Banking Subcommittee
Prohibits certain civil actions under Florida Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act; prohibits agencies from entering into certain agreements with specified recipients & subrecipients; requires contractors to include notice in contracts with residential property owners; proving requirements for notices of contract cancellation; provides requirements for certain insurers' accountants; revises content of certain public adjuster contracts; revises disclosure requirements of contracts for short-term health insurance; provides that claims resulting from certain loss assessments are considered to have occurred on specified date; requires insurers to provide specified notice to commercial residential property insurance & commercial property insurance policyholders; prohibits grant or contract fraud; prohibits falsely representing that advertisement or communication originated from bank or lending institution that consumer has direct relationship with.
FL HB 951 - David Silvers
Behavioral Health
01/29/2024 - Favorable with CS by Children, Families & Seniors Subcommittee
Requires law enforcement officer to provide parent or legal guardian of minor being transported to certain facilities with specified facility information; requires specified mental health facility to have waiting area for children that is physically separate from adult waiting area; defines “mobile response team”; requires sheriff to develop & implement certain written agreements with mobile response team providers; provides requirements for such agreements; requires 911 public safety answering point to dispatch mobile response team as primary responder under certain circumstances.
FL HB 955 - Gallop Franklin II
Prescriptive Authority for Psychologists
01/05/2024 - Now in Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Revises provisions to grant psychologists who have met specific criteria established by the Board of Psychology to prescribe drugs and controlled substances; provides board duties regarding recording of psychologists who prescribe controlled substances; requires liability insurance; provisions related to health care insurance claims to provide for prescribing psychologists.
FL HB 959 - Melony M. Bell
Health Care for Inmates
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Provides requirements for involuntary examinations of inmates, placement & treatment of inmate in mental health treatment facility, & filing petitions for involuntary inpatient placement for inmates; provides requirements for emergency & psychotropic medications, use of force, & management & treatment for self-injurious behaviors; requires wardens to consult with inmate’s treating physician & make certain determinations; provides for petitions to compel inmate to submit to medical treatment; provides requirements for inmate capacity, health care advance directives, & proxies.
FL HB 969 -
Direct Filing of an Information
12/20/2023 - Filed
Prohibits holding child transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution in adult facility before hearing; provides exception; removes provisions concerning involuntary mandatory waivers; removes provisions allowing discretionary waivers of children 14 or 15 years of age for specified offenses; removes references to state attorney's discretion to direct file juvenile; revises discretionary direct file criteria; requires court to advise child & his or her parent or guardian of child's right to hearing after information transferring child to adult court is filed; authorizes request for evidentiary hearing; requires hearing within certain time; requires judge to consider specified information & factors; authorizes judge to consider certain reports; provides for continued jurisdiction; requires adult court's order to include certain findings.
FL HB 975 - House Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
Background Screenings and Certifications
03/07/2024 - Message sent to senate
Provides qualifications for person seeking certification as person with lived experience; requires continuum of care lead agencies to submit certain information to DCF for purposes of background screening; expands certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners; revises licensure, registration, or certification requirements for acupuncturists; optometrists; pharmacists; dentists; midwives; speech-language pathologists & audiologists; nursing home administrators; occupational therapists; respiratory therapists; dietitian/nutritionists; practitioners of orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics; electrologists; clinical laboratory personnel; medical physicists; genetic counselors; opticians; physical therapists; psychologists & school psychologists; clinical social workers, marriage & family therapists, & mental health counselors.
FL HB 985 -
Housing
12/21/2023 - Filed
Creates Department of Housing & Tenant Rights; provides for secretary be appointed by Governor & confirmed by Senate; provides purpose of department; requires department submit a report; revises provisions relating to residential tenancies, landlords, & tenants, including requirements for rental agreements, security deposits, notices, evictions, rights to purchase, rent control, impact fees, abandonment of property, & documentary stamp taxes.
FL HB 99 - House Healthcare Regulation Subcommittee
Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact
12/19/2023 - Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
Creates Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact; provides for recognition of access to social work services, including through telehealth, in member states; provides for development of data system, reporting procedures, & exchange of specified information between member states; specifies licensees practicing in remote state under compact must adhere to laws & rules of that state.
FL HB 993 - Jeff Holcomb
First Responders and Crime Scene Investigators
01/09/2024 - 1st Reading
Defines "first responder"; provides PTSD suffered by crime scene investigator is compensable occupational disease; authorizes diagnoses be made through telehealth; provides requirements for benefits; requires employing agency to provide mental health training.
FL HB 999 -
Post-trial Counseling Services for Jurors
12/21/2023 - Filed
Creates post-trial counseling program for jurors; requires chief judge of circuit to administer program; requires and authorizes judicial circuit to provide specified number of counseling sessions; authorizes judges to extend jury service for specified administrative purpose if juror requests counseling before conclusion of trial; prohibits clerk of court from releasing name of juror who requests post-trial counseling services; requires judicial circuits to annually submit a report to DCF.
FL SB 10 - Senate Judiciary Committee
Relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office
03/01/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 6007
Providing for the relief of Julia Perez by the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation to compensate Julia Perez for personal injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of an employee of the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc.
FL SB 100 -
Pregnant Women in Custody
10/17/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as "Ava’s Law"; requiring that, upon her request, every female arrested and not released on bond within 72 hours after arrest be administered a pregnancy test within a specified timeframe; requiring each municipal detention facility or county detention facility to notify each arrested female upon booking at the facility of her right to request a pregnancy test; authorizing a sentencing court to stay the beginning of the period of incarceration for up to a certain amount of time for a pregnant woman convicted of any offense; authorizing a judge to impose specified sanctions for another criminal conviction or a violation of the terms and conditions ordered by the judge, etc.
FL SB 1008 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Background Screening Requirements
02/20/2024 - CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
Specifying additional disqualifying offenses under the background screening requirements for certain persons; expanding certain background screening requirements to apply to all health care practitioners, rather than specified practitioners; prohibiting the Department of Health, beginning on a specified date, from renewing the license of a health care practitioner until he or she complies with the background screening requirements, etc.
FL SB 1010 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
03/22/2023 - CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
Specifying the purpose of certain inspections by credentialing entities; revising requirements relating to credentialing entities denying, revoking, or suspending certifications or imposing sanctions on a recovery residence; authorizing credentialing entities to approve certain certified recovery residence administrators to actively manage up to a specified number of residents if certain requirements are met, etc.
FL SB 1016 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
04/11/2023 - CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
Revising a requirement for the Department of Children and Families relating to certain performance outcomes and measures; requiring managing entities to lead the implementation of a coordinated system of care; revising department requirements for, and authorizations relating to, contracting with managing entities; revising requirements relating to the acute care services utilization database, etc.
FL SB 1046 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government
Gaming Control
02/19/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Prohibiting a person from falsely personating any personnel or representative from the Florida Gaming Control Commission; increasing the criminal penalty for specified violations involving a slot machine or device; prohibiting a person from making false statements or disseminating false information regarding the legality of a slot machine or device to facilitate the sale or delivery of such device; prohibiting a person from, for profit or hire, transporting or procuring the transportation of a specified number of other persons to facilitate illegal gambling, etc.
FL SB 1048 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
Independent Incentivized Prison Program
01/16/2024 - Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Defining the terms “nonviolent offense,” “recidivism,” and “tentative release date”; requiring the Department of Corrections to establish an independent incentivized prison program for nonviolent offenders; providing reporting requirements by specified dates, etc.
FL SB 1064 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Trauma Screening for Children Removed from Caregivers
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-254
Requiring the Department of Children and Families or community-based care lead agency to conduct a trauma screening after a child’s removal from his or her home within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based care lead agency to refer the child for a trauma assessment, if indicated appropriate or necessary by the screening, within a certain timeframe; requiring the department or community-based lead agency to refer the child to services and intervention, as needed, etc.
FL SB 1066 - Colleen Burton
Consumer Protection
01/04/2024 - Referred to Banking and Insurance; Judiciary; Rules
Prohibiting certain civil actions under the Florida Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act; prohibiting state government agencies from entering into contracts and agreements with certain entities; requiring contractors to include a notice in their contracts with residential property owners under certain circumstances; defining the terms “claim” and “other agreement”; prohibiting falsely representing that an advertisement or communication originated from a bank or lending institution, etc.
FL SB 1080 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Prosecuting Children as Adults
01/04/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Prohibiting a jail or other facility intended or used for the detention of adults from holding a child who has been transferred to adult court for criminal prosecution before a specified hearing is held to determine if the child should be prosecuted as an adult, unless the child waives his or her right to such hearing; deleting provisions requiring a state attorney to request a court to transfer and certify a child for prosecution as an adult or to provide written reasons to the court for not making such request, or to proceed under a specified provision; deleting references to the state attorney’s discretion to direct file a juvenile, etc.
FL SB 110 - Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee
State Board of Administration
03/14/2023 - CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
Prohibiting the State Board of Administration from paying benefits to a Florida Retirement System investment plan member convicted of specified felonies; authorizing the state board to develop investment products to be offered in the investment plan; revising the types of investments in real property and related personal property which the state board may invest in, etc.
FL SB 1102 - Tina Scott Polsky
Solutions for Mental Health Professional Shortages
02/28/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
Establishing a mental health profession scholarship and loan forgiveness program within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; providing for applicant eligibility and the award of scholarships; providing for repayment of scholarship funds if the program requirements are not fully satisfied; providing that the program’s implementation is contingent on specific funding, etc.
FL SB 1118 -
Nursing Education Programs
12/28/2023 - Filed
Revising application requirements for nursing education program approval; revising requirements for annual reports approved programs are required to submit to the board; authorizing agents of the Department of Health to conduct onsite evaluations and inspections of approved and accredited nursing education programs; deleting a provision authorizing approved nursing education programs to request an extension to meet the board’s accreditation requirements, etc.
FL SB 112 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Step-therapy Protocols
04/27/2023 - In Messages
Defining the term “serious mental illness”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 1170 - Jennifer Bradley
Home and Community-based Services Medicaid Waiver Program
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Requiring the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to develop and implement an automated, electronic application process for specified services; deleting the requirement that application for services be made to the agency in the region in which the applicant resides; specifying that applicants meeting specified criteria are deemed to be in crisis regardless of the applicant’s age; providing requirements for the Agency for Health Care Administration when a client’s iBudget is established, etc.
FL SB 1188 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Office Surgeries
03/04/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1561
Revising the types of procedures for which a medical office must register with the Department of Health to perform office surgeries; requiring that each office, as a condition of registration, list certain medical personnel and thereafter notify the department of the addition or termination of such personnel within a specified timeframe; specifying general requirements for office surgeries; specifying standards of practice for office surgeries, delineated by the level of surgery being performed, etc.
FL SB 12 -
Relief of Mark LaGatta/Department of Transportation
10/10/2023 - Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations
Providing for the relief of Mark LaGatta; providing an appropriation to compensate Mr. LaGatta for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of the Department of Transportation; providing a limitation on compensation and the payment of attorney fees, etc.
FL SB 1216 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Reentry Resource Centers
01/08/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Providing for the provision of inmate transition assistance services through reentry resource centers that collocate support services and resources; specifying some types of assistance that should be included, etc.
FL SB 1224 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Protection of Children and Victims of Crime
04/08/2024 - Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
Requiring the Statewide Guardian ad Litem Office and circuit guardian ad litem offices to participate in the development of a certain state plan; requiring the court to appoint a guardian ad litem for a child at the earliest possible time; requiring parents to consent to provide certain information to the guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem; requiring a court to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent a child in certain proceedings, etc.
FL SB 1250 - Senate Transportation Committee
Department of Transportation
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/HB 1305
Increasing the maximum amount of debt service coverage that must be transferred from the State Transportation Trust Fund to the Right-of-Way Acquisition and Bridge Construction Trust Fund; authorizing the department to provide up to 100 percent of project costs for certain eligible projects in rural areas of opportunity; authorizing installation of an automated license plate recognition system within the right-of-way of any road on the State Highway System for a specified purpose; prohibiting use of an automated license plate recognition system to issue a notice of violation or a traffic citation, etc.
FL SB 1274 - Senate Criminal Justice Committee
Juvenile Justice
02/19/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Revising penalties for minors committing specified firearms violations; redesignating civil citation programs as prearrest delinquency citation programs; revising program requirements; requiring that youths who are arrested for certain electronic monitoring or supervised release violations be placed in secure detention until a detention hearing; requiring conditional release conditions for children released after confinement for specified firearms offenses; requiring the Department of Juvenile Justice to establish a specified class for firearms offenders, etc.
FL SB 1282 - Corey Simon
Prescriptive Authority for Psychologists
01/04/2024 - Filed
Requiring the Board of Psychology to certify psychologists to exercise prescriptive authority if they meet specified criteria; specifying requirements for the prescribing of drugs and controlled substances by a prescribing psychologist; requiring the Board of Psychology to establish an interim panel for a specified purpose by a specified date, etc.
FL SB 1284 - Jonathan Allen Martin
Health Care for Inmates
02/13/2024 - Now in Fiscal Policy
Providing for individual dignity and treatment; substantially rewording provisions concerning involuntary examinations of inmates and providing requirements therefor; substantially rewording provisions relating to placement and treatment of an inmate in a mental health treatment facility and providing requirements therefor; specifying purposes for which an inmate’s mental health treatment records may be provided to the Florida Commission on Offender Review and the Department of Children and Families, etc.
FL SB 1288 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Early Child Care Universal Voucher Program
01/10/2024 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Appropriations
Providing the purpose of the program; providing for certain students to be placed on a wait list under certain circumstances; providing requirements for terms of a scholarship; providing early learning coalition, Department of Education, and program provider obligations; providing parent and student responsibilities for program participation, etc.
FL SB 130 -
Possession or Use of a Firearm in a Sensitive Location
10/17/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Defining the term “sensitive location”; prohibiting the possession or use of a firearm in a sensitive location; providing criminal penalties; providing exceptions, etc.
FL SB 1306 - Alexis Calatayud
Behavioral Health
01/10/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Requiring a law enforcement officer to provide a parent or legal guardian of a minor being transported to certain facilities with specified facility information; requiring a specified mental health facility to have a waiting area for minors which is physically separate from any adult waiting area; defining the term “mobile response team”; requiring a 911 public safety answering point to dispatch a mobile response team as the primary responder under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 1318 - Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson
Corporal Punishment
01/04/2024 - Filed
Requiring charter schools to comply with general law relating to corporal punishment; deleting provisions authorizing teachers to administer corporal punishment; requiring a specified notification be provided to parents relating to corporal punishment; providing requirements for a student to be disciplined using corporal punishment, etc.
FL SB 1332 - Alexis Calatayud
Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Awareness and Assistance Training Program
01/10/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Requiring the Department of Children and Families, by a specified date, to establish the training program for a specified purpose; requiring the department to select a coordinating agency to administer the training program by a specified date; providing that the coordinating agency is responsible for all aspects of administering the training program; requiring the coordinating agency to submit a 5-year statewide, phase-in implementation plan to the department, etc.
FL SB 1334 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Mental Health Education and Training
01/10/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as the “Butler Act”; requiring persons working in roles involving direct interaction with youth to undergo mental health education and training; providing requirements for such education and training; requiring the Department of Children and Families to establish and maintain dedicated spaces within certain institutions, centers, and venues that are easily accessible to youth for the dissemination of information and resources relating to mental health and to promote such spaces, etc.
FL SB 134 -
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice
10/17/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on the race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, advanced age, gender, or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, etc.
FL SB 1340 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Coordinated Systems of Care for Children
02/01/2024 - CS by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs read 1st time
Defining the term “care coordinator”; requiring certain school districts to be guided by and adhere to a specified mental health and treatment support system for certain children; requiring school districts to contract with managing entities to provide care coordinators for certain students; requiring school districts to address certain recommendations, and meet specified performance outcomes, etc.
FL SB 1352 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
Juvenile Justice
02/19/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Authorizing personnel of the Department of Juvenile Justice and of certain contracted providers to possess, store, and administer emergency opioid antagonists and providing immunity from civil or criminal liability for such personnel; deleting a provision requiring the juvenile justice circuit advisory board to establish certain community service programs; requiring sheriffs’ offices to submit an annual report regarding certain received proceeds to the department, rather than the juvenile justice circuit advisory board; requiring the public safety coordinating council to cooperate with the department, rather than the juvenile justice circuit advisory board, to prepare a comprehensive public safety plan, etc.
FL SB 1356 - Senate Criminal Justice Committee
School Safety
02/16/2024 - Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Providing that sheriffs are responsible for screening-related costs for school guardian programs; authorizing sheriffs to waive training and screening-related costs for a private school for a school guardian program; requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to maintain a list of school guardians and provide the list to any School Safety Specialist upon request; providing requirements for the list; requiring each sheriff to report on a quarterly basis to the Department of Law Enforcement the schedule for school guardian trainings, etc.
FL SB 1358 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Background Screenings for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Service Provider Personnel
03/06/2023 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Rules
Providing requirements for mental health personnel applying for an exemption from disqualification; requiring the Department of Children and Families or the Agency for Health Care Administration to notify an applicant who submits an incomplete application within a specified timeframe; requiring the department or the agency to grant or deny an exemption request within a specified timeframe; revising the burden of proof for peer specialists seeking an exemption from employment disqualification, etc.
FL SB 1384 - Jarrid Collins
Department of Management Services
01/10/2024 - Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Appropriations
Providing that certain positions are exempt from the Career Service System; providing that certain entities are exempt from a specified sales tax on the sale or transfer of personal property through the Federal Surplus Personal Property Donation Program; exempting aircraft maintenance, repairs, modifications, systems, parts, and other related components from specified competitive-solicitation requirements; providing an order of preference when two or more bids, proposals, or replies from such vendors are received for certain competitive solicitations; authorizing agencies to apply a preference upon receipt and review of documentation from the vendor that its supply chain does not use child or forced labor, etc.
FL SB 1386 - Warren Keith Perry
Florida School for Competitive Academics
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Revising the components of the delivery of public education within the Florida Early Learning-20 education system to include the Florida School for Competitive Academics; providing for the establishment of the Florida School for Competitive Academics; requiring the Auditor General to conduct audits of the school; exempting the school from specified requirements in the Florida Early Learning-20 Education Code, etc.
FL SB 1394 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Community Mobile Support Teams
02/08/2024 - Now in Fiscal Policy
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to contract with managing entities for community mobile support teams to place certain crisis counselors within local law enforcement agencies to conduct follow-up contacts with certain persons; providing requirements for crisis counselors, community mobile support teams, and certain community mental health centers, etc.
FL SB 14 -
Relief of Maury Hernandez/Department of Corrections
10/10/2023 - Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations
Providing for the relief of Maury Hernandez; providing an appropriation to compensate Maury Hernandez, a former Broward County Sheriff’s deputy, for injuries and damages sustained as a consequence of the Department of Corrections’ failures to enforce probation laws, regulations, and policies; providing legislative intent that certain liens be waived; providing a limitation on the payment of compensation and attorney fees, etc.
FL SB 140 - Lori Beth Berman
Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder, to conduct a study for a specified purpose; providing the duties of the agency upon completion of the study; requiring the agency to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
FL SB 1400 - Shevrin Jones
School Readiness Program
01/04/2024 - Filed
Revising the criteria for a child to receive priority for participation in the school readiness program; providing requirements for a school readiness program provider to be eligible to receive specified funding, etc.
FL SB 1404 - Shevrin Jones
Health Care Freedom Act
01/10/2024 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as the "Health Care Freedom Act"; repealing provisions relating to the prohibited use of state funds for travel to another state for purpose of abortion services, the prohibited use of state funds for sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures, and the right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors, respectively; requiring a covered entity to adopt a policy relating to providing notice of its refused services by a specified date; repealing provisions relating to termination of pregnancies, powers of the Agency for Health Care Administration, and the use of telehealth to provide services, respectively, etc.
FL SB 1412 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Mental Health
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to HB 1349
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.
FL SB 1414 - Tracie Davis
Education
01/05/2024 - Filed
Citing this act as the “Freedom to Learn Act”; repealing provisions relating to prohibited training or instruction in specified concepts which constitutes discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex; prohibiting school districts from adopting a procedure that compels or authorizes school personnel to share certain information with a parent under certain circumstances; requiring instruction in LGBTQ history in public schools, etc.
FL SB 1416 - Senate Fiscal Policy Committee
Dissolution of Marriage
07/05/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-315
Authorizing the court to consider the adultery of either spouse and any resulting economic impact in determining the amount of alimony awarded; providing a burden of proof for the party seeking support, maintenance, or alimony; removing the unanticipated change of circumstances requirement regarding modifying a parenting plan and time-sharing schedule; requiring the court to reduce or terminate support, maintenance, or alimony under certain circumstances; authorizing the court to reduce or terminate an award of support, maintenance, or alimony upon specific written findings of fact regarding the obligor’s retirement, etc.
FL SB 1424 - Shevrin Jones
Pretrial Release
01/05/2024 - Filed
Abolishing monetary bail after a specified date; providing that the terms “bail” and “bond” in the Florida Statutes include any and all forms of pretrial release, etc.
FL SB 1430 - Lauren Frances Book
Social Media Protection for Minors
01/05/2024 - Filed
Requiring social media platforms to disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures, and disclaimers, beginning on a specified date; authorizing social media platforms to post specified compliance statements on their Internet homepage or platform user login page; prohibiting certain schools from using or having an account on certain social media platforms and from requiring students to register, enroll, or participate in social media platforms for educational purposes, etc.
FL SB 1434 - Lauren Frances Book
Pretrial Intervention Programs
01/10/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Revising eligibility for voluntary admission into pretrial substance abuse education and treatment intervention programs to exclude defendants who are charged with a sexual offense; defining the term “sexual offense”, etc.
FL SB 1444 - Ileana Garcia
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Revising background screening requirements for certain direct service providers; requiring the licensure of adult day training programs; providing for inspections of adult day training programs; authorizing the agency to immediately suspend or revoke the license of adult day training programs under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 1458 - Warren Keith Perry
Charitable Organizations
01/05/2024 - Filed
Prohibiting the solicitation or acceptance of contributions or anything of value from a foreign source of concern; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to create an Honest Services Registry for a specified purpose; providing requirements for charitable organizations to be included on the registry, etc.
FL SB 146 - Tina Scott Polsky
Sale or Transfer of Ammunition
01/19/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as "Jamie's Law"; requiring background checks for the sale or transfer of ammunition; providing exceptions, etc.
FL SB 1486 - Jarrid Collins
Child Permanency
01/12/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct a records check through the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System on all persons being considered for placement of a child; allowing any person to have access to certain identifying child records under specified circumstances; revising a criterion for guardianship assistance payments made to guardians who have entered into a guardianship assistance agreement; authorizing the court to review the department’s denial of an application to adopt a child, etc.
FL SB 1490 - Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee
First Responders and Crime Scene Investigators
02/01/2024 - CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability read 1st time
Defining the term “first responder”; authorizing certain diagnoses to be made through telehealth; providing that posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by a crime scene investigator is a compensable occupational disease under certain circumstances; providing requirements for benefits offered to a crime scene investigator for posttraumatic stress disorder, etc.
FL SB 150 - Senate Fiscal Policy Committee
Public Safety
03/14/2023 - CS by Fiscal Policy read 1st time
Requiring sheriffs to assist private schools in complying with a certain statute; authorizing a person to carry a concealed weapon or concealed firearm if he or she is licensed to do so or meets specified requirements; specifying that the state bears the burden of proof for certain violations; requiring a person who is carrying a concealed weapon or concealed firearm without a license to carry valid identification and display such identification upon demand by a law enforcement officer; providing that a person who is authorized to carry a concealed weapon or concealed firearm without a license is subject to specified penalties for possessing such weapon or firearm at a school-sponsored event or on school property; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to develop a behavioral threat management operational process by a specified date; authorizing a private school to partner with a law enforcement agency or security agency for specified purposes, etc.
FL SB 1508 - Thomas A. Wright
911 Public Safety Telecommunicators
01/05/2024 - Filed
Revising criteria in the Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement System to include members employed as 911 public safety telecommunicators; specifying the number of creditable years needed to receive a full retirement benefit without penalty; requiring such members to have their retirement benefits calculated in accordance with provisions for Regular Class members; making technical changes, etc.
FL SB 152 - Lori Beth Berman
Caregiving Youth
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Defining the terms “caregiving youth” and “household member”; creating the Florida Caregiving Youth Task Force within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; requiring the Department of Education to maintain and make available to school districts a comprehensive list of specified information; requiring each middle and high school to have a designated caregiving youth liaison; exempting caregiving youth from payment of certain tuition and fees under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 1530 - Senate Judiciary Committee
Unauthorized Public Camping and Public Sleeping
03/04/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 1365
Prohibiting counties and municipalities from authorizing or otherwise allowing public camping or sleeping on public property without certification of designated public property by the Department of Children and Families; authorizing counties to designate certain public property for such uses for a specified time period; requiring the Department of Children and Families to certify such designation; requiring a county to submit a request to the secretary of the department which includes certification of and documentation proving certain information, etc.
FL SB 1532 - Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee
Mitigation
03/05/2024 - Message sent to senate
Defining the term “applicant”; revising the entities to whom and purposes for which water quality enhancement credits may be sold; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection or water management districts to authorize the sale and use of such credits to applicants, rather than to governmental entities, to address adverse water quality impacts of certain activities; authorizing local governments with land in credit-deficient basins to consider bids from private-sector applicants to establish mitigation banks on such lands, etc.
FL SB 1534 - Jonathan Allen Martin
Pretrial Release and Detention
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Specifying that only a judge is authorized to set, reduce, or alter a defendant’s bail; authorizing the chief judge of a judicial circuit to petition the Florida Supreme Court for approval of a countywide or circuitwide bond schedule that sets a lower bond amount than required by the uniform statewide bond schedule; revising the requirements with which a defendant must comply as conditions of pretrial release imposed by the court; prohibiting persons arrested for, rather than charged with, a dangerous crime from being granted nonmonetary pretrial release at a first appearance hearing, etc.
FL SB 1542 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
Bail Bonds
01/10/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
Revising the monetary requirements for pretrial release to include cash bail bonds; deleting surety bail bonds for criminal offenses; revising the state’s time to respond to seek extradition of a fugitive defendant after receiving written notice from the surety agent or bail agency; requiring the state to enter a defendant into the National Crime Information Center database for the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System region or regions within a specified timeframe if the state is willing to extradite a fugitive defendant, etc.
FL SB 1548 - Jennifer Bradley
Children’s Medical Services Program
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Deleting a requirement that the Department of Health consult with the Department of Education before prescribing certain newborn testing and screening requirements; authorizing the release of certain newborn screening results to licensed genetic counselors; revising newborn screening requirements for licensed birth centers; revising the purposes and functions of the Children’s Medical Services program, etc.
FL SB 1568 - Lauren Frances Book
Student Elopement
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Requiring public schools to create a School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team and a school elopement plan; providing for membership and responsibilities of the team; providing requirements for the plan; requiring the team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students, etc.
FL SB 1578 - Victor Manuel Torres Jr.
Student Elopement
01/10/2024 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
Requiring public schools to create a School Staff Assistance for Emergencies (SAFE) Team and a school elopement plan; providing for membership and responsibilities of the SAFE Team; requiring the SAFE Team to create student-specific elopement quick reference guides for certain students; requiring public schools to annually submit their plans to the district school board, etc.
FL SB 1582 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Department of Health
03/07/2024 - Ordered engrossed, then enrolled
Exempting environmental health technicians from certain certification requirements under certain circumstances; creating the Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program within the department for a specified purpose; providing that any health care practitioner present at a birth or responsible for primary care during the neonatal period has the primary responsibility of administering certain screenings; revising hearing loss screening requirements to include infants and toddlers; requiring the department to grant certain applicants 90 days to cure deficiencies with their medical marijuana treatment center license applications pursuant to a specified errors and omissions process, etc.
FL SB 1592 - Jason T. Brodeur
Transportation for Voluntary Mental Health Crisis Services
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Revising the information that a county may include in its transportation plan serving individuals seeking certain voluntary services; authorizing counties to designate at least one law enforcement agency to transport persons on a voluntary basis to service providers that have agreed to accept such persons; authorizing law enforcement officers providing such courtesy transports to conduct a specified search, etc.
FL SB 1594 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Agency for Persons with Disabilities
05/01/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 1517
Requiring the agency to convene an interagency workgroup for a specified purpose; requiring the agency to make certain eligibility determinations within specified timeframes; revising provisions related to the developmental disabilities home and community-based services Medicaid waiver program; revising background screening requirements for certain direct service providers, etc.
FL SB 1596 - Ileana Garcia
Provider Accountability
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Revising the rights of residents of nursing home facilities; providing additional disqualifying offenses for purposes of background screening of employees of certain health care providers; creating a cause of action for ex parte injunctive relief against continued unlicensed activity relating to health care provider facilities; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to petition the court for such injunctive relief; providing for ex parte temporary injunctive relief under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 1600 - Jarrid Collins
Interstate Mobility
01/05/2024 - Filed
Requiring the respective boards of occupations, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation if there is no board, to allow licensure by endorsement if the applicant meets certain criteria; requiring applicants of professions that require fingerprints for criminal history checks to submit such fingerprints before the board or department issues a license by endorsement; requiring the department, and authorizing the board, to review the results of the criminal history checks according to specific criteria to determine if the applicants meet the requirements for licensure; requiring the applicable health care regulatory boards, or the Department of Health if there is no board, to issue a license or certificate to applicants who meet specified conditions, etc.
FL SB 1604 - Lauren Frances Book
Digital Voyeurism
01/05/2024 - Filed
Redesignating the offense of “video voyeurism” as “digital voyeurism”; providing reduced criminal penalties for certain violations by persons who are under 19 years of age; redesignating the offense of “video voyeurism dissemination” as “digital voyeurism dissemination”, etc.
FL SB 1620 - Erin Grall
Childhood Mental Health, Safety, and Welfare
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Revising the array of services offered by the child and adolescent mental health system of care; requiring specified mental health care professionals to complete a course on technology addiction and pornography addiction by a specified date; requiring that a warning label be affixed to the packaging of certain digital devices; requiring a commercial entity to verify the age of individuals attempting to access certain material online; limiting the proportion of instructional time that may be delivered in an electronic or digital format, etc.
FL SB 1626 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Mental Health of Minors
01/11/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Defining the terms “immediately” and “serious bodily harm”; specifying the conditions that must be met for a minor to be taken to a receiving facility for involuntary examination; requiring that court orders for involuntary examinations be made a part of the minor’s clinical record; requiring that minors be immediately released if a parent or guardian revokes consent for the minor’s admission; creating the Telehealth Pilot Program within the Department of Children and Families, etc.
FL SB 1634 - Jason T. Brodeur
Child Welfare
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Clarifying a provision regarding access to certain records in the event of the death of a child as a result of abuse, abandonment, or neglect; revising provisions to refer to a multidisciplinary legal representation program rather than a model; requiring each office of criminal conflict and civil regional counsel to annually submit certain data to the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability (OPPAGA) by a specified date; authorizing certain persons to initiate a proceeding by filing a petition for adjudication and permanent commitment if both parents of a child are deceased or the last known living parent dies, etc.
FL SB 1636 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
Substance Use Disorder Treatment Services
01/25/2024 - Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Creating the Substance Use Disorder Housing Advisory Council; authorizing addiction treatment services to be provided through for-profit providers; providing that the certification of recovery residences that meet specified standards protects certain persons, etc.
FL SB 164 - Tina Scott Polsky
Solutions for Mental Health Professional Shortages
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Establishing a mental health profession scholarship and loan forgiveness program within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; providing for applicant eligibility and the award of scholarships; specifying service obligations for scholarship recipients; providing for applicant eligibility and the award of loan repayments, etc.
FL SB 1642 - Victor Manuel Torres Jr.
Death with Dignity
01/11/2024 - Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy
Creating the “Death with Dignity Act”; providing criteria for individuals to request certain medication as qualified patients; authorizing an attending physician to sign a qualified patient’s death certificate; requiring certain health care providers to report certain information to the Department of Health; providing criminal penalties, liabilities, and immunities, etc.
FL SB 1646 - Nick DiCeglie
Mitigation Credits
01/11/2024 - Referred to Environment and Natural Resources; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
Defining the term “proximity factor”; revising the list of projects eligible to use mitigation banks; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection and water management districts to authorize the use of mitigation credits within surrounding basins; specifying the circumstances under which credits may be deemed unavailable in a basin, etc.
FL SB 1650 - Victor Manuel Torres Jr.
Safer Consumption Services Programs
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Creating the "Safer Consumption Services Act"; authorizing the Department of Health to approve entities to operate safer consumption services programs for specified purposes; specifying criteria an entity must satisfy to obtain department approval to operate a program; providing that approved programs must maintain compliance with specified provisions and rules to continue operating; requiring entities operating approved programs to submit annual reports to the department by a specified date each year, etc.
FL SB 1652 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
District and School Advisory Councils
01/11/2024 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Rules
Renaming district advisory councils and school advisory councils as “district community advisory boards” and “community advisory boards,” respectively; requiring community advisory boards to publicize specified information, etc.
FL SB 1658 - Victor Manuel Torres Jr.
Housing
03/14/2023 - Introduced
Citing this act as the "Keep Floridians Housed Act"; creating the Department of Housing and Tenant Rights as a new department of state government; removing the option for a landlord to deposit certain money into a non-interest-bearing account; prohibiting a landlord from engaging in certain conduct; prohibiting a landlord from evicting a tenant or terminating a rental agreement because the tenant or the tenant’s minor child is a victim of actual or threatened domestic violence, dating violence, sexual violence, or stalking; authorizing local governments and special districts to adopt a specified impact fee, etc.
FL SB 1666 - Senate Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Committee
Veterans
02/27/2024 - CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
Creating the Florida Veterans’ History Program within the Division of Arts and Culture of the Department of State as a Florida Folklife Program; revising the purpose of Florida Is For Veterans, Inc.; revising the duties of the corporation to require that it conduct specified activities directed toward its target market; revising the purpose of the Veterans Employment and Training Services Program; authorizing the use of grant funds to provide for a specified educational stipend; prohibiting the Department of State from charging veterans who reside in this state fees for the filing of specified documents, etc.
FL SB 1674 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Restrictive Confinement of Inmates
01/11/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as the “Cautia Spencer End Solitary Confinement Act”; specifying requirements for and limitations and restrictions on the use of restrictive housing; providing documentation requirements for staff members directly involved in using restrictive housing for an individual; specifying conditions required in restrictive housing, etc.
FL SB 1696 - Bobby Powell Jr.
Annual Study of the Use of Restrictive Housing
01/11/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Requiring the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability to conduct an annual study on the use of restrictive housing for all prisoners in the state correctional system; specifying the types of restrictive housing placements to be studied; requiring that the annual study include specified data per certain age groups and categories as it relates to the uses of restrictive housing, to include the frequency and duration, demographic information, the conditions of restrictive housing, mental health, economic data, and program questions, etc.
FL SB 1722 - Erin Grall
Child Protective Investigations
01/11/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
Prohibiting the initiation of a child protective investigation or removal of a child from his or her residence solely based on a parent’s religious beliefs or ideology; requiring the investigator to submit a written summary to the subject of the investigation confirming certain information, etc.
FL SB 1734 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
Public Records/Human Trafficking Victims
01/05/2024 - Filed
Expanding an existing public records exemption relating to human trafficking victims seeking expunction of certain records related to an offense listed in s. 775.084(1)(b)1., F.S.; providing for future review and repeal of the expanded exemption; providing for the reversion of specified provisions if the exemption is not saved from repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
FL SB 1744 - Jay N. Trumbull Jr.
Behavioral Health Services
01/05/2024 - Filed
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, by specified dates, to seek federal approval and amend its rules as needed to allow for reimbursement of specified services under the state Medicaid program, etc.
FL SB 1762 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Resilient Communities Grant Program
01/11/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Creating the program within the Department of Children and Families; authorizing counties and municipalities to apply for participation in the program; requiring counties and municipalities to work with the local managing entity before applying to participate in the program; requiring the Florida Certification Board and managing entities to develop criteria for the review of submitted applications and award grant funding, etc.
FL SB 1784 - Senate Fiscal Policy Committee
Mental Health and Substance Abuse
03/07/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 7021
Providing an exception to background screening requirements for certain licensed physicians and nurses; authorizing the state to establish that a transfer evaluation was performed by providing the court with a copy of the evaluation before the close of the state’s case-in-chief; allowing a patient’s legal custodian to authorize release of the patient’s clinical records; revising requirements for ordering a person for involuntary services and treatment, petitions for involuntary service, appointment of counsel, and continuances of hearings, respectively, etc.
FL SB 1788 - Erin Grall
Age Verification for Social Media Platform Accounts
01/11/2024 - Referred to Judiciary; Fiscal Policy
Requiring social media platforms to prohibit certain minors from creating new accounts, use reasonable age-verification methods to verify the ages of account holders, to terminate certain accounts and provide additional options for termination of such accounts, and to disclose specified policies and provide specified resources, measures, and disclaimers; authorizing the Department of Legal Affairs to bring actions for violations under the Florida Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act, etc.
FL SB 180 -
Sale or Transfer of Ammunition
11/07/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as "Jaime’s Law"; requiring background checks for the sale or transfer of ammunition; providing exceptions, etc.
FL SB 2 -
Relief of Patricia Ermini by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office
10/10/2023 - Referred to Special Master on Claim Bills; Judiciary; Community Affairs; Rules
Providing for the relief of Patricia Ermini by the Lee County Sheriff’s Office; providing for an appropriation to compensate her for injuries sustained as a result of the negligence of the Lee County Sheriff’s Office; providing a limitation on the payment of attorney fees, etc.
FL SB 210 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
Mental Health Professionals
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Reclassifying intern registrations as associate licenses for the professions of clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling; deleting the requirement that a licensed mental health professional be present on the premises when associate licensees, formerly classified as registered interns, are providing clinical services in a private practice setting, etc.
FL SB 226 - Senate Judiciary Committee
Support for Dependent Adult Children
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-213
Providing that civil suits to establish support for dependent adult children may be filed only in a certain court by specified individuals; requiring such support to be paid to the dependent adult child or other specified persons; specifying that a child support order does not terminate on the child’s 18th birthday in certain circumstances; requiring the court to consider certain factors when determining the amount of support for a dependent adult child; providing an additional circumstance under which a guardian advocate must be represented by an attorney in guardianship proceedings, etc.
FL SB 228 - Lori Beth Berman
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders
01/26/2023 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Revising the definition of the term “developmental disability” to include fetal alcohol spectrum disorders; defining the term “fetal alcohol spectrum disorders”, etc.
FL SB 230 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Health Care Practitioner Titles and Designations
06/02/2023 - Vetoed by Governor
Providing that, for specified purposes, the use of specified titles or designations in connection with one’s name constitutes the practice of medicine or the practice of osteopathic medicine; revising grounds for disciplinary action relating to a practitioner’s use of such titles or designations in identifying himself or herself to patients or in advertisements for health care services; requiring certain health care practitioners to prominently display a copy of their license in a conspicuous area of their practice, etc.
FL SB 24 -
Victims of Reform School Abuse
10/10/2023 - Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Fiscal Policy
Citing this act as the "Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and Okeechobee School Abuse Victim Certification Act"; requiring a person seeking certification as a victim of Florida reform school abuse to apply to the Department of State by a specified date; authorizing the estate, personal representative, next of kin, or lineal descendants of a decedent who was a victim of Florida reform school abuse to submit an application on behalf of the decedent; requiring the department to review and process a completed application within a certain timeframe, etc.
FL SB 240 - Senate Education Pre-K -12 Committee
Education
05/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-81
Requiring the Office of Reimagining Education and Career Help to develop certain criteria and display public information; providing a tax credit for eligible businesses that employ an apprentice or preapprentice under certain conditions; authorizing specified employers to apply to the Department of Financial Services for reimbursement of workers’ compensation premiums paid for students participating in work-based learning opportunities; encouraging the district school board to adopt policies and procedures to consult with certain entities to determine how to expose students to industries, businesses, and careers; providing admissions policies for career centers that offer certain science degree programs; revising requirements for the Florida Pathways to Career Opportunities Grant Program, etc.
FL SB 250 -
Florida School for Competitive Academics
12/05/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Changing the name of the Florida School for Competitive Academics to the Frazer School for Competitive Academics, etc.
FL SB 2500 - Senate Appropriations Committee
Appropriations
02/08/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to HB 5001
Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2024, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc.
FL SB 2502 - Senate Appropriations Committee
Implementing the 2023-2024 General Appropriations Act
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-240
Incorporating by reference certain calculations of the Florida Education Finance Program; revising requirements relating to the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments seeking additional spending authority to implement specified programs and payments; revising the definition of the term “state Medicaid expenditures”; specifying how Department of the Lottery rules are to be adopted, except certain rules for 1 fiscal year regarding the commission for lottery ticket sales, etc.
FL SB 2510 - Senate Appropriations Committee
Health
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-243
Increasing the income threshold for certain contributions required by residents of veterans’ nursing homes; establishing the Slots for Doctors Program for a specified purpose; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to implement a pilot program for individuals with developmental disabilities in specified Statewide Medicaid Managed Care regions to provide coverage of comprehensive services; requiring the agency to administer the pilot program in consultation with the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to give preference to certain plans, etc.
FL SB 252 - Rosalind Osgood
Psychiatric Treatments
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Defining the terms “electroconvulsive treatment” and “psychosurgical procedure”; providing that only a physician may perform electroconvulsive treatment and psychosurgical procedures; prohibiting the performance of electroconvulsive treatment and psychosurgical procedures on minors, etc.
FL SB 254 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Treatments for Sex Reassignment
05/17/2023 - Approved by Governor
Granting courts of this state temporary emergency jurisdiction over a child present in this state if the child has been subjected to or is threatened with being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; providing that, for purposes of warrants to take physical custody of a child in certain child custody enforcement proceedings, serious physical harm to the child includes, but is not limited to, being subjected to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; prohibiting certain public entities from expending state funds for the provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures; prohibiting sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures for patients younger than 18 years of age; requiring the department to immediately suspend the license of a health care practitioner who is arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit specified violations related to sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures for a patient younger than 18 years of age, etc.
FL SB 262 - Senate Commerce and Tourism Committee
Technology Transparency
06/07/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-201
Prohibiting officers or salaried employees of governmental entities from using their positions or state resources to make certain requests of social media platforms; prohibiting certain conduct by an online platform that provides online services, products, games, or features likely to be predominantly accessed by children; creating the “Florida Digital Bill of Rights”; providing that a consumer may submit requests to controllers to exercise specified rights; requiring controllers to limit the collection of personal data according to certain parameters, etc.
FL SB 268 - Gayle Bauer Harrell
Step-therapy Protocols
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Defining the term “serious mental illness”; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date, etc.
FL SB 276 - Lori Beth Berman
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice
01/26/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Judiciary; Rules
Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on the gender or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on the race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, advanced age, gender, or gender identity of any person; specifying that the reclassification of a certain crime must occur if the crime was based in whole or in part on a disability of any person, etc.
FL SB 288 - Senate Transportation Committee
Designation of a Certain Diagnosis on Motor Vehicle Registrations
03/01/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 341
Citing this act as the "Safeguarding American Families Everywhere (SAFE) Act"; requiring the application form for motor vehicle registration to include certain language allowing an applicant to indicate that he or she has been diagnosed with, or is the parent or legal guardian of a child or ward who has been diagnosed with, specified disabilities or disorders; requiring the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to allow specified persons to update a motor vehicle registration to include or remove the specified designation at any time, etc.
FL SB 314 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
Licensed Counseling for First Responders
02/21/2023 - CS by Governmental Oversight and Accountability; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
Requiring an employing agency of a first responder to pay for certain licensed counseling for first responders; prohibiting the employing agency from requiring the first responder to use specified leave for such counseling under certain circumstances; authorizing a first responder to select a licensed mental health professional and providing requirements for the employing agency related thereto, etc.
FL SB 32 - Deborah J. Mayfield
Florida Statutes
03/17/2023 - Ordered enrolled
Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; replacing incorrect cross-references and citations; correcting grammatical, typographical, and like errors; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and improving the clarity of the statutes and facilitating their correct interpretation, etc.
FL SB 330 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals
03/22/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-12
Creating part VI of ch. 395, F.S., entitled “Behavioral Health Teaching Hospitals”; authorizing hospitals to apply for a behavioral health teaching hospital designation beginning on a specified date; authorizing the agency to designate additional behavioral health teaching hospitals that meet the designation criteria; establishing a grant program within the agency for the purpose of funding designated behavioral health teaching hospitals; establishing the Florida Center for Behavioral Health Workforce within the Louis de la Parte Florida Mental Health Institute for a specified purpose, etc.
FL SB 352 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
01/24/2023 - Filed
Providing that posttraumatic stress disorder suffered by a 911 public safety telecommunicator or crime scene investigator is a compensable occupational disease under certain circumstances; specifying that benefits do not require a physical injury and are not subject to certain apportionment or limitations; requiring certain employing agencies to provide specified mental health training, etc.
FL SB 394 -
School Employees
11/28/2023 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Education Pre-K -12; Rules
Citing this act as “Stratton’s Law”; requiring courts that issue risk protection orders to require that the petitioner immediately notify the respondent’s employer or entity of service of the issuance of a risk protection order if the respondent meets specified criteria and to notify the respondent of such notice requirement if the court issues such an order; requiring instructional personnel to disclose to their employer any prior arrests, criminal convictions, guilty pleas, pleas of nolo contendere, and any criminal records that were expunged, etc.
FL SB 428 -
Water Safety
11/28/2023 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Fiscal Policy; Rules
Requiring comprehensive age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate K-12 instruction on water safety; requiring students to be provided with literature on water safety, etc.
FL SB 434 - Senate Transportation Committee
Specialty License Plates
03/04/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/HB 403
Providing that a certain discontinuation requirement for specialty license plates does not apply to collegiate license plates; providing that collegiate license plates are not subject to specified presale requirements for specialty license plates; authorizing certain entities to resubmit discontinued collegiate license plates for reauthorization by the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles; revising the distribution of proceeds for the Live The Dream license plate; directing the department to develop certain specialty license plates, etc.
FL SB 436 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
911 Public Safety Telecommunicators
01/27/2023 - Filed
Revising the definition of the term “first responder” to include 911 public safety telecommunicators, for purposes of applying special provisions relating to employment-related accidents and injuries to 911 public safety telecommunicators; revising the definition of the term “public safety telecommunication training program,” to increase the number of hours of required training and specify the nature of the additional training; specifying circumstances under which 911 public safety telecommunicators are considered to be acting within the scope of their employment so as to qualify for workers’ compensation benefits, etc.
FL SB 452 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Home Health Aides for Medically Fragile Children
03/14/2023 - CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
Requiring home health agencies to ensure that any tasks delegated to home health aides for medically fragile children meet specified requirements; establishing the home health aides for medically fragile children program for specified purposes; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Board of Nursing, to approve training programs for home health aides for medically fragile children; authorizing home health aides for medically fragile children to administer certain medications under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 468 - Ileana Garcia
Suicide Prevention
02/20/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Revising the purposes of the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse to include an assessment of the state’s suicide prevention infrastructure; revising the duties of the commission to include duties relating to the state’s suicide prevention infrastructure, etc.
FL SB 474 - Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee
Public Records/Suicide Victims
03/22/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-18
Defining the term “suicide of a person”; creating an exemption from public records requirements for a photograph or video or audio recording of the suicide of a person; providing exceptions; requiring that any viewing, copying, listening to, or other handling of such photograph or video or audio recording be under the direct supervision of the custodian of the record or his or her designee; creating an exemption from public records requirements for autopsy reports of suicide victims; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
FL SB 48 -
Guardianship
10/10/2023 - Referred to Judiciary; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
Citing this act as “Karilyn’s Law”; requiring that public guardians be appointed on a rotating basis; requiring the court to establish visitation rights of a minor’s family; requiring the court to establish visitation rights of an alleged incapacitated person’s family; revising requirements for a petition for the appointment of a guardian, etc.
FL SB 500 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Public Records/Mental Health Court Programs
02/02/2023 - Filed
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information of persons participating in, or considered for participation in, mental health court programs; authorizing the disclosure of confidential and exempt information under certain circumstances; providing for legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
FL SB 508 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Problem-solving Courts
06/06/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-191
Revising the responsibilities of coordinators of treatment-based drug court programs; requiring such programs to collect specified data and information for certain purposes; requiring such programs to annually report certain information and data to the Office of the State Courts Administrator; authorizing courts to determine how long a person may be admitted into certain programs; revising admission requirements for certain programs; revising eligibility requirements for voluntary admission into certain substance abuse programs, etc.
FL SB 52 - Senate Education Pre-K -12 Committee
Student Use of Social Media Platforms
03/14/2023 - CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Education; YEAS 12 NAYS 0
Requiring members of the instructional staff of public schools to provide instruction on social media safety; requiring the Department of Education to make social media safety instructional material available online; requiring district school boards to notify parents of the availability of the instructional material; requiring each school district to prohibit and prevent students from accessing social media platforms through the use of Internet access provided by the school district, etc.
FL SB 536 - Ileana Garcia
Community-based Child Welfare Agencies
01/12/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
Revising requirements for contracts the Department of Children and Families has with community-based care lead agencies; requiring the lead agency's board of directors to disclose any known or potential conflicts of interest; revising community-based care lead agency duties; making technical changes; requiring that the allocation of core services funds be based on a three-tiered payment model; revising requirements for lead agency practices in the procurement of commodities and contractual services, etc.
FL SB 558 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Homeless Service Professionals
02/19/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Providing qualifications for certification as a person with lived experience; requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct background screening; specifying disqualifying offenses for a person applying for certification; authorizing a person who does not meet background screening requirements to request an exemption from disqualification from the department, etc.
FL SB 56 - Harrell
Psychology Interjurisdictional Compact
01/04/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
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.
FL SB 560 -
Special Risk Class
12/05/2023 - Referred to Governmental Oversight and Accountability; Community Affairs; Appropriations
Revising criteria for designation as a member of the Special Risk Class of the Florida Retirement System, as of a specified date, etc.
FL SB 580 - Senate Judiciary Committee
Safe Exchange of Minor Children
01/11/2024 - Now in Rules
Citing this act as the “Cassie Carli Law”; providing requirements for a parenting plan relating to the exchange of a child; requiring the court to order the parties in a parenting plan to exchange their child at a neutral safe exchange location or at a location authorized by a supervised visitation program under certain circumstances; requiring sheriffs to designate certain areas as neutral safe exchange locations; providing immunity from civil liability, etc.
FL SB 584 - Lauren Frances Book
Rights of Children
02/16/2023 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Judiciary; Rules
Providing for specified rights of children; prohibiting the state and certain governmental agencies from deliberately infringing on the rights of children; renaming the “Children and Youth Cabinet” as the “Commission on the Status of Children and Youth”; removing the commission from the Executive Office of the Governor, etc.
FL SB 640 - Senate Transportation Committee
Purple Alert
02/16/2024 - Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Requiring local law enforcement agencies to develop policies for a local activation of a Purple Alert for certain missing adults; specifying duties of the Department of Law Enforcement’s Missing Endangered Persons Information Clearinghouse in the event of a state Purple Alert; specifying conditions under which a local law enforcement agency may request the clearinghouse to open a case, etc.
FL SB 646 - Lori Beth Berman
Medicaid Eligibility for Young Adults
02/16/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
Requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse, to conduct a study for a specified purpose; providing requirements for the study; providing duties for the agency based on the findings in the study; requiring the agency to submit a report of the findings and its recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date, etc.
FL SB 654 - Lori Beth Berman
Caregiving Youth
02/16/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Education; Fiscal Policy
Creating the Florida Caregiving Youth Task Force within the Department of Health for a specified purpose; providing for membership, meetings, and duties of the task force; defining the terms “caregiving youth” and “household member”; requiring the Department of Education to establish a training program for school personnel related to caregiving youth for a specified purpose, etc.
FL SB 676 - Senate Appropriations Committee
Level 2 Background Screenings
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-220
Requiring persons with an affiliation to certain qualified entities to undergo security background investigations; authorizing the head of a qualified entity to grant a person with an affiliation an exemption from disqualification under certain circumstances; authorizing certain qualified entities to participate in the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse beginning on a specified date; expanding the agencies and entities which may use the Criminal Justice Information Program; requiring the agency to make certain determinations regarding the eligibility of certain noninstructional contractors beginning on a specified date, etc.
FL SB 68 -
Social Work Licensure Compact
10/17/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
Creating the Social Work Licensure Compact; specifying requirements for state participation in the compact; requiring member states to designate the categories of social work licensure which are eligible for issuance of a multistate license in such states; establishing the Social Work Licensure Compact Commission; providing for commission enforcement of the compact, etc.
FL SB 70 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
Public Records and Meetings/Social Work Licensure Compact
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for certain information held by the Department of Health or the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling pursuant to the Social Work Licensure Compact; authorizing the disclosure of such information under certain circumstances; providing an exemption from public records requirements for recordings, minutes, and records generated during the closed portions of such meetings; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
FL SB 700 - Daniel Wright Burgess Jr.
Mental Health Professionals
02/23/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
Reclassifying intern registrations as associate licenses for the professions of clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling; revising qualification requirements for experts appointed in certain criminal proceedings related to the mental condition of a defendant; revising the purposes for which certain funds awarded under the Family Empowerment Scholarship Program may be used, etc.
FL SB 7016 - Senate Health Policy Committee
Health Care
03/22/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-15
Revising the purpose of the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program; requiring the Department of Health to implement the Dr. and Mrs. Alfonse and Kathleen Cinotti Health Care Screening and Services Grant Program for a specified purpose; providing requirements for birth centers designated as advanced birth centers with respect to operating procedures, staffing, and equipment; requiring advanced birth centers to enter into a written agreement with a blood bank for emergency blood bank services; authorizing certain psychiatric nurses to order emergency treatment of certain patients; creating the Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health (TEACH) Funding Program for a specified purpose; enacting the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact in this state, etc.
FL SB 7018 - Senate Criminal Justice Committee
Inmate Welfare Trust Fund
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-244
Adding additional funding sources from which all proceeds must be deposited into the State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund or the General Revenue Fund; requiring that the proceeds from nonemergency health care visit copayments be deposited into the State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund or into the General Revenue Fund, etc.
FL SB 7026 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Education
Higher Education Finances
05/16/2023 - Signed by Officers and presented to Governor
Requiring the Board of Governors to develop regulations for university boards of trustees relating to contracting for the construction of new facilities or for work on existing facilities; authorizing a state university or Florida College System institution to waive the out-of-state fee for a student who is an intercollegiate athlete receiving a scholarship; revising the list of authorized expenditures that may be included in a carry forward spending plan for state universities; revising a limitation on compensation for state university employees; providing that certain educational facility contracting and construction techniques applicable to school districts also apply to Florida College System institutions, etc.
FL SB 7034 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
OGSR/Information Regarding Persons Seeking Mental Health Treatment and Services
02/15/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to HB 7009 -SJ 395
Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for petitions for voluntary and involuntary admission for mental health treatment, court orders, related records, and personal identifying information regarding persons seeking mental health treatment and services; abrogating the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.
FL SB 7056 - Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Child Protective Investigative Services
05/02/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to HB 7061
Repealing provisions relating to sheriffs of certain counties providing child protective investigative services; requiring certain sheriffs to transfer the functions of providing child protective investigative services to the Department of Children and Families; providing that certain sheriffs remain the custodians of certain files and documents; authorizing the department and certain sheriffs to enter into an agreement to allow certain employees to remain in office space owned or leased by the sheriff for a specified time, etc.
FL SB 74 - Deborah J. Mayfield
Florida Statutes
02/21/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-2
Deleting provisions that have expired, have become obsolete, have had their effect, have served their purpose, or have been impliedly repealed or superseded; removing inconsistencies, redundancies, and unnecessary repetition in the statutes; and improving the clarity of the statutes and facilitating their correct interpretation, etc.
FL SB 758 - Alexis Calatayud
Reading Strategies
03/14/2023 - Pending withdrawal
Requiring that certain reading instructional and intervention programs exclude specified programs; requiring that certain instructional materials exclude specified materials; revising a requirement pertaining to school districts’ comprehensive reading plans; requiring that certain teacher training exclude specified training, etc.
FL SB 784 - Senate Criminal Justice Committee
Special Persons Registry
05/01/2023 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 1275
Citing this act as the “Protect Our Loved Ones Act"; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to develop and maintain a database, to be known as the “Special Persons Registry,” for a specified purpose; authorizing local law enforcement agencies to provide relevant information from the registry to law enforcement officers under certain circumstances, etc.
FL SB 796 - Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability Committee
Anti-human Trafficking
02/19/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 02/22/24, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Extending the future repeal date of the direct-support organization for the Statewide Council on Human Trafficking; revising the hotline telephone number to be included in human trafficking awareness signs; requiring that contractors with governmental entities attest that they do not use coercion for labor or services, etc.
FL SB 798 -
Health Care Patient Protection
12/15/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Criminal Justice; Rules
Adding additional disqualifying offenses to background screening requirements for certain persons in health care practice settings; defining the term “memory care provider”; requiring memory care providers to employ specified practices in the provision of memory care services; adding additional disqualifying offenses to level 2 background screening standards, etc.
FL SB 82 - Deborah J. Mayfield
Florida Statutes
02/21/2024 - Chapter No. 2024-6
Amending provisions to conform to section 147 of chapter 2023-173, Laws of Florida, which directs the Division of Law Revision to prepare a reviser’s bill for the 2024 Regular Session of the Legislature to replace references to the terms “Department of Economic Opportunity” and “Secretary of Economic Opportunity,” wherever they occur in the Florida Statutes, with the terms “Department of Commerce” and “Secretary of Commerce,” respectively, etc.
FL SB 820 - Erin Grall
Child Care and Early Learning Providers
01/12/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Education Pre-K -12, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building
Providing an exemption for public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; defining the term “preschool”; authorizing the use of credits against certain taxes beginning on a specified date; providing a limitation on such credits; requiring repayment of tax credits under certain conditions and using a specified formula; revising licensing standards for all licensed child care facilities and minimum standards and training requirements for child care personnel, etc.
FL SB 84 - Rodriguez
Water Safety
01/04/2023 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government; Fiscal Policy
Requiring a state park to have a certified lifeguard on duty at designated swimming areas within the park during certain timeframes; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to install a water rescue station at each designated swimming area; requiring comprehensive age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate K-12 instruction on water safety, etc.
FL SB 848 - Nick DiCeglie
AMIkids, Inc.
01/04/2024 - Referred to Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Authorizing the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Education, and the Department of Children and Families to contract with AMIkids, Inc., for specified services, etc.
FL SB 852 - Alexis Calatayud
Interpersonal Violence Injunction Petitions
01/04/2024 - Referred to Judiciary; Criminal Justice; Rules
Revising a requirement that petitions for injunction for protection against domestic violence, repeat violence, sexual violence, or dating violence, and stalking, respectively, be verified, rather than sworn to; revising the form for such petitions for injunction to require a person to verify, rather than swear to, certain statements, etc.
FL SB 864 - Lauren Frances Book
Death with Dignity
02/23/2023 - Referred to Health Policy; Judiciary; Fiscal Policy
Creating the "Death with Dignity Act"; providing criteria for individuals to request certain medication as qualified patients; providing requirements and waiting periods for such requests; authorizing a qualified patient to rescind a request at any time and in any manner; authorizing an attending physician to sign a qualified patient’s death certificate, etc.
FL SB 866 - Shevrin Jones
Post-trial Counseling Services for Jurors
01/04/2024 - Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Creating a post-trial counseling program for jurors in each judicial circuit; providing the program’s purpose; requiring the Office of the State Courts Administrator to provide administrative support for the program; requiring the judicial circuit to provide a specified number of counseling sessions at no charge to a juror under certain circumstances; prohibiting a clerk of the court from releasing the name of a juror who requests post-trial counseling services, etc.
FL SB 878 - Shevrin Jones
Art Therapy
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Citing this act as the “Professional Art Therapist Licensure Act”; defining the term “professional art therapist”; requiring the appointment of licensed practicing professional art therapists to the Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling; requiring the Department of Health to license professional art therapists and register art therapist interns if they meet specified requirements; requiring the board or department to adopt rules establishing requirements for the annual renewal of professional art therapist licenses and art therapist intern registrations, etc.
FL SB 88 -
Crimes Evidencing Prejudice
10/18/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Expanding grounds for the reclassification of crimes to include acts of prejudice based on the gender of a victim; specifying that the reclassification occurs if the crime was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, homeless status, or advanced age of the victim; providing for the reclassification of a crime if it was based in whole or in part on the actual or perceived mental or physical disability of the victim, etc.
FL SB 898 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
Naturopathic Medicine
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Creating the Board of Naturopathic Medicine within the Department of Health; prohibiting certain unlicensed persons from practicing naturopathic medicine or promoting, identifying, or describing themselves using specified titles or abbreviations; requiring the board to adopt rules providing for the handling of medical records by licensed naturopathic physicians; providing that patients are responsible for advising treating health care practitioners about any legend drugs, nutrients, or natural medicinal substances that a naturopathic physician has prescribed or recommended to the patient, etc.
FL SB 910 - Darryl Ervin Rouson
Public Records/Veterans Treatment and Mental Health Court Programs
03/05/2024 - Laid on Table, refer to CS/HB 715
Providing public records exemptions for specified veterans treatment court program records and mental health court program records, respectively; authorizing disclosure of confidential and exempt information under certain circumstances; providing for future legislative review and repeal; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
FL SB 914 - Senate Rules Committee
Suicide Prevention
06/16/2023 - Chapter No. 2023-252
Authorizing certain diagnoses to be made through telehealth; renaming the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Abuse as the Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder; revising the purposes of the commission to include an assessment of the state’s suicide prevention infrastructure; revising the membership and duties of the commission; requiring the commission to submit annual interim reports to the Governor and Legislature for a specified timeframe, etc.
FL SB 920 - Tina Scott Polsky
Electronic Harassment
01/04/2024 - Referred to Judiciary; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Rules
Authorizing a person to bring a civil action against another person if the actor intentionally posts another person’s personal identifying information without consent of the person whose information is posted and if certain criteria are met; authorizing a victim to recover damages and any other appropriate relief, including reasonable attorney fees, etc.
FL SB 930 - Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson
Review of Juvenile Sentences
01/04/2024 - Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Fiscal Policy
Revising eligibility requirements for review of sentences for offenses a person committed while a juvenile; revising duties of the Department of Corrections concerning such reviews; revising procedures for initiating a review; providing for appointment of counsel for indigent offenders, etc.
FL SB 936 - Ana Maria Rodriguez
Autonomous Practice of Certain Psychiatric Nurses
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Authorizing certain advanced practice registered nurses who are psychiatric nurses to engage in autonomous practice in mental health practice, as defined by rule of the Board of Nursing, etc.
FL SB 938 - Tracie Davis
Operation and Administration of the Baker Act
03/14/2023 - Favorable by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 7 NAYS 0
Requiring the Department of Children and Families to provide specified information to certain individuals and organizations; requiring the department to maintain an information handbook and repository of answers to frequently asked questions, etc.
FL SB 956 - Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson
Grandparent Visitation
01/04/2024 - Referred to Judiciary; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
Revising the criteria required for the grandparent of a minor child to petition the court for grandparent visitation, etc.
FL SB 960 - Lori Beth Berman
Outpatient Mental Health Services
01/09/2024 - Introduced
Authorizing a court to order a respondent into outpatient treatment for a specified amount of time under certain circumstances; providing criteria for involuntary outpatient treatment; authorizing a certain court exercising original jurisdiction to order certain respondents into involuntary outpatient services, etc.
FL SB 98 - Berman
Victims of Crimes of Sexual Violence or Sexual Exploitation
01/04/2023 - Withdrawn prior to introduction
Providing that a victim of any crime of sexual violence or sexual exploitation has the right to prevent any person or entity from disclosing or disseminating information or records that might identify him or her as a victim of such crimes; prohibiting a person or an entity in possession of information or records that might identify an individual as a victim of a crime of sexual violence or sexual exploitation from disclosing or disseminating such information or records without first obtaining the express written consent of the victim; authorizing an aggrieved person to initiate a civil action for an injunction against certain persons or entities after following specified procedures, etc.
FL SB 982 - Geraldine Fortenberry Thompson
Specialty License Plates/Project Addiction: Reversing the Stigma
02/15/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development, 02/20/24, 1:30 pm, 301 Senate Building
Directing the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to develop a Project Addiction: Reversing the Stigma license plate, etc.
FL SB 990 - Erin Grall
Child Care and Early Learning Providers
03/14/2023 - Favorable by Education Pre-K -12; YEAS 8 NAYS 0
Providing an exemption for public and private preschools from specified special assessments levied by a municipality; providing for a tax credit for certain contributions made to a child care facility; authorizing specified tax credits for corporations establishing and operating, or making payments to, child care facilities for their employees under certain conditions; requiring the Department of Children and Families to conduct specified screening of child care personnel within a specified timeframe and issue provisional approval of such personnel; providing that an insurer may not deny, cancel, or refuse to renew a policy on the basis that the policyholder operates a large family child care home, etc.
FL SB 992 - Shevrin Jones
Educator Certifications and Training
01/04/2024 - Referred to Education Pre-K -12; Appropriations Committee on Education; Fiscal Policy
Revising the core curricula for certain teacher preparation programs to include training relating to mass casualty incidents; revising the certified educator eligibility criteria to require such persons to receive training in mass casualty incidents; requiring the Department of Education to develop a list of approved trainings relating to mass casualty incidents, etc.
FL SPB 2500 - Senate Appropriations Committee
Appropriations
01/31/2024 - Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
Providing moneys for the annual period beginning July 1, 2024, and ending June 30, 2025, and supplemental appropriations for the period ending June 30, 2024, to pay salaries, and other expenses, capital outlay - buildings, and other improvements, and for other specified purposes of the various agencies of state government, etc.
FL SPB 7016 -
Health Care
12/12/2023 - Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Health Policy; YEAS 9 NAYS 0
Revising the purpose of the Dental Student Loan Repayment Program; requiring the Department of Health to provide annual reports to the Governor and the Legislature on specified student loan repayment programs; providing requirements for birth centers designated as advanced birth centers with respect to operating procedures, staffing, and equipment; authorizing certain psychiatric nurses to order emergency treatment of certain patients; creating the Training, Education, and Clinicals in Health (TEACH) Funding Program for a specified purpose, etc.
FL SPB 7034 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
OGSR/Information Regarding Persons Seeking Mental Health Treatment and Services
01/17/2024 - Submitted as Committee Bill and Reported Favorably by Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; YEAS 6 NAYS 0
Amending a provision which provides an exemption from public records requirements for petitions for voluntary and involuntary admission for mental health treatment, court orders, related records, and personal identifying information regarding persons seeking mental health treatment and services; abrogating the scheduled repeal of the exemption, etc.
FL SPB 7036 - Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Committee
OGSR/Identifying Information of Persons Reporting Child Abuse, Abandonment, or Neglect
01/12/2024 - On Committee agenda-- Children, Families, and Elder Affairs, 01/17/24, 8:30 am, 37 Senate Building
Amending a provision which provides a public records exemption for identifying information of persons reporting child abuse, abandonment, or neglect; abrogating the scheduled repeal of the exemption and the reversion of specified statutory text, etc.