S1170 - Home and Community-based Services Medicaid Waiver Program
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jennifer E. Bradley
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
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.
STATUS
Failed
S0956 - Grandparent Visitation
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Geraldine F. Thompson
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the criteria required for the grandparent of a minor child to petition the court for grandparent visitation, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S0848 - AMIkids, Inc.
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Nicola G. DiCeglie, Tracie Davis
Last updated 7 months ago2 Co-Sponsors
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.
STATUS
Failed
S0828 - Coverage for Orthotics and Prosthetics Services
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Jay Collins
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to pay for specified orthotics and prosthetics services for Medicaid recipients; requiring individual health insurance policies, group, blanket, and franchise health insurance policies, and health maintenance contracts, respectively, to provide coverage for specified orthotics and prosthetics services; prohibiting health insurers and health maintenance organizations from denying claims under certain circumstances, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1478 - Retail Sale of Domestic Dogs and Cats
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Clay Yarborough
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Defining the terms "pet store" and "sell or offer for sale"; prohibiting pet stores from selling or offering for sale domestic dogs and cats, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S7078 - Public Records and Meetings/Cancer Research Grant Applications
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Fiscal Policy, Gayle B. Harrell
Last updated 3 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Providing an exemption from public records requirements for proprietary business information included in cancer research grant applications submitted to the Cancer Connect Collaborative and records generated by the collaborative relating to the review of such information; providing an exemption from public meeting requirements for portions of collaborative meetings during which such proprietary business information is discussed; providing for legislative review and repeal of the exemptions; providing statements of public necessity, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1264 - History of Communism
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Education Pre-K - 12, Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, Jay Collins
Last updated 5 months ago4 Co-Sponsors
Requiring instruction in public schools on the history of communism; creating the Institute for Freedom in the Americas at Miami Dade College; renaming the Adam Smith Center for the Study of Economic Freedom as the Adam Smith Center for Economic Freedom; requiring the Department of State, in collaboration with the Department of Education, to consult with stakeholders to provide a recommendation to the Legislature by a specified date for the creation of a museum of the history of communism, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S0578 - Limitation on Local Fees for Virtual Offices
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Blaise Ingoglia
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting a county, municipality, or local governmental entity from imposing, levying, or collecting certain fees relating to the utilization of a virtual office, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1700 - Independent Hospital Districts
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Nicola G. DiCeglie
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Providing requirements for the conversion of an independent hospital district to a nonprofit entity; requiring the governing body of the district to determine by a supermajority vote whether conversion is in the best interests of its residents within a specified timeframe; providing for negotiation of an agreement between each affected county and the governing body of the independent hospital district, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1814 - Sister State Relationship Between Florida and Taiwan
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Ana Maria Rodriguez
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Expressing appreciation for the sister state relationship with and bilateral economic and cultural ties between the State of Florida and Taiwan, etc.
STATUS
Passed
S1678 - Taxes, Fines, and Fees
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Deleting a provision allowing the indigent care and trauma center surtax to be levied without a majority vote of electors; restoring provisions relating to the payment of funds collected by a county officer into the State Treasury; eliminating fees for original, renewal, and replacement driver licenses and identification cards, certain driver license endorsements, reinstatement of driver licenses, and certain requests for review or hearing; revising a specified assessment on citrus, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1674 - Restrictive Confinement of Inmates
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Bobby Powell
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
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.
STATUS
Failed
S1548 - Energy
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Joe Gruters
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Prohibiting the Department of Transportation from assigning or transferring its permitting rights across transportation rights-of-way operated by the department to certain third parties under certain circumstances; requiring the Public Service Commission to approve targeted storm reserve amounts for public utilities; requiring the Department of Commerce to expand categorical eligibility for the low-income home energy assistance program to include individuals who are enrolled in certain federal disability programs; requiring the Public Service Commission to conduct or cause to be conducted a feasibility study on the use of small modular nuclear reactors in this state; defining the term "small modular nuclear reactor" or "reactor", etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1574 - Health Care Services
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Shevrin D. Jones
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Revising the definitions of the terms "health insurer" as "utilization review entity"; requiring utilization review entities to establish and offer a prior authorization process for accepting electronic prior authorization requests by a specified date; prohibiting payment adjudicators from downcoding health care services under certain circumstances; requiring payment adjudicators to provide certain information prior to making their initial payment or notice of denial of payment, etc.
STATUS
Failed
S1598 - Immigration and Immigrants
Florida - 2024 Regular SessionIntroduced by
Victor M. Torres
Last updated 7 months ago1 Co-Sponsor
Citing this act as the "Welcoming Florida Act"; repealing provisions relating to patient immigration status data collection by hospitals; deleting a requirement that an employer discontinue employing a person after learning that the person is or has become an unauthorized alien; adding freedom from discrimination because of immigration status to the purposes of the Florida Civil Rights Act of 1992; specifying duties of certain officials concerning certification of certain activities in support of visa applications; requiring certain persons and businesses offering immigration assistance to make a required disclosure, etc.
STATUS
Failed