Bill > S2502

Introduced Session

An act implementing the 2024-2025 General Appropriations Act; providing legislative intent; incorporating by reference certain calculations of the Florida Education Finance Program; reenacting and amending s. 1002.68, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year certain requirements for the Voluntary Prekindergarten Education Program; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; requiring the Department of Revenue to provide the taxable value for the Wakulla County School District by a specified date to be used for certain education funding programs and calculations; amending s. 1004.6495, F.S.; requiring the Board of Governors and the State Board of Education, in consultation with the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities, to establish a specified code by a specified date; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments within a specified timeframe to increase budget authority to support the implementation of the Medicaid home and community-based services Medicaid waiver program of the Agency for Persons with Disabilities; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment for additional spending authority for the Disproportionate Share Hospital Program; requiring the budget amendment to include certain information; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within the Medicaid program appropriation categories for a specified purpose; specifying the time period within which the budget amendment must be submitted; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within the Florida Kidcare program appropriation categories or increase budget authority for certain purposes; specifying the time period within which the budget amendment must be submitted; amending s. 381.986, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the exemption of certain rules pertaining to the medical use of marijuana from certain rulemaking requirements; amending s. 14(1), chapter 2017-232, Laws of Florida; exempting certain rules pertaining to medical marijuana adopted to replace emergency rules from specified rulemaking requirements; providing for the future expiration and reversion of a specified law; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments seeking additional spending authority to implement specified programs and payments; requiring institutions participating in a specified workforce expansion and education program to provide quarterly reports to the agency; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment seeking additional spending authority to implement the Low-Income Pool component of the Florida Managed Medical Assistance Demonstration; requiring a certain signed attestation and acknowledgment for entities relating to the Low-Income Pool; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment to implement certain payments and specified programs; authorizing the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit a budget amendment requesting additional spending authority to implement a specified program; authorizing the Department of Children and Families to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within specified areas of the department based on implementation of the Guardianship Assistance Program; authorizing the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, and the Agency for Health Care Administration to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support certain refugee programs; requiring the Department of Children and Families to submit specified quarterly reports to the Executive Office of the Governor and the Legislature; authorizing the Department of Children and Families to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority to support specified federal grant programs; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and the Child Care Food Program if a certain condition is met; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Program if a certain condition is met; authorizing the Department of Health to submit a budget amendment to increase budget authority for the department if additional federal revenues specific to COVID-19 relief funds become available; authorizing the balance of certain appropriations for the Pediatric Rare Disease Research Grant Program to be carried forward for a specified period of time; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to replace the Florida Medicaid Management Information System (FMMIS) and fiscal agent operations with a specified new system; specifying items that may not be included in the new system; providing directives to the Agency for Health Care Administration related to the new Florida Health Care Connection (FX) system; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to meet certain requirements in replacing FMMIS and the current Medicaid fiscal agent; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to implement a project governance structure that includes an executive steering committee; providing procedures for use by the executive steering committee; providing responsibilities of the executive steering committee; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration, in consultation with the Department of Health, the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, the Department of Children and Families, and the Department of Corrections, to competitively procure a contract with a vendor to negotiate prices for certain prescribed drugs and biological products; providing requirements for such contract; authorizing the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to submit budget amendments to transfer funding from the Salaries and Benefits appropriation categories for a specified purpose; authorizing the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to submit a budget amendment for specified purposes if additional direct care staff are needed to meet its established staffing ratio; amending s. 409.915, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the exclusion of certain funds from the definition of the term “state Medicaid expenditures”; amending s. 216.262, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of the Department of Corrections to submit a budget amendment for additional positions and appropriations under certain circumstances; requiring review and approval by the Legislative Budget Commission; amending s. 215.18, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority and related repayment requirements for temporary trust fund loans to the state court system which are sufficient to meet the system’s appropriation; requiring the Department of Juvenile Justice to review county juvenile detention payments to determine whether a county has met specified financial responsibilities; requiring amounts owed by the county for such financial responsibilities to be deducted from certain county funds; requiring the Department of Revenue to transfer withheld funds to a specified trust fund; requiring the Department of Revenue to ensure that such reductions in amounts distributed do not reduce distributions below amounts necessary for certain payments due on bonds and to comply with bond covenants; requiring the Department of Revenue to notify the Department of Juvenile Justice if bond payment requirements mandate a reduction in deductions for amounts owed by a county; reenacting s. 27.40(1), (2)(a), (3)(a), (5), (6), and (7), F.S., relating to court-appointed counsel; extending for 1 fiscal year provisions governing the appointment of court appointed counsel; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; reenacting and amending s. 27.5304, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year limitations on compensation for representation in criminal proceedings; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 934.50, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the drone replacement grant program within the Department of Law Enforcement; revising the eligibility for and use of program funds; requiring the Department of Management Services to use tenant broker services to renegotiate or reprocure certain private lease agreements for office or storage space; requiring the Department of Management Services to provide a report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; prohibiting an agency from transferring funds from a data processing category to another category that is not a data processing category; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds between departments for purposes of aligning amounts paid for risk management insurance and for human resources services purchased per statewide contract; authorizing the Department of Management Services to use certain facility disposition funds from the Architects Incidental Trust Fund to pay for certain relocation expenses; authorizing the Department of Management Services to submit budget amendments for certain purposes related to the relocation; authorizing the Department of Management Services to acquire additional state-owned office buildings or property for inclusion in the Florida Facilities Pool; requiring the Department of Financial Services to replace specified components of the Florida Accounting Information Resource Subsystem (FLAIR) and the Cash Management Subsystem (CMS); requiring the Department of Financial Services to take certain actions regarding FLAIR and CMS replacement; providing for the composition of an executive steering committee to oversee FLAIR and CMS replacement; prescribing duties and responsibilities of the executive steering committee; reenacting s. 282.709(3), F.S., relating to the state agency law enforcement radio system and interoperability network; providing for future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; authorizing state agencies and other eligible users of the Statewide Law Enforcement Radio System to use the Department of Management Services contract to purchase equipment and services; requiring a specified transaction fee percentage for use of the online procurement system; amending s. 717.123, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of the Department of Financial Services to retain certain funds relating to unclaimed property and to make specified payments; amending s. 120.80, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the exclusion of certain rules adopted by the Florida Public Service Commission in a certain fiscal year to specified provisions; amending s. 215.18, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority of the Governor, if there is a specified temporary deficiency in a land acquisition trust fund in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of State, or the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, to transfer funds from other trust funds in the State Treasury as a temporary loan to such trust fund; providing a deadline for the repayment of such temporary loan; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to transfer designated proportions of the revenues deposited in the Land Acquisition Trust Fund within the department to land acquisition trust funds in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the Department of State, and the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission according to specified parameters and calculations; defining the term “department”; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to make transfers to land acquisition trust funds monthly; specifying the method of determining transfer amounts; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to advance funds from its land acquisition trust fund to the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission’s land acquisition trust fund for specified purposes; amending s. 259.105, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the distribution of proceeds from the Florida Forever Trust Fund; reenacting s. 376.3071(15)(g), F.S., relating to the Inland Protection Trust Fund; exempting specified costs incurred by certain petroleum storage system owners or operators during a specified period from the prohibition against making payments in excess of amounts approved by the Department of Environmental Protection; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; requiring the Department of Citrus to enter into agreements to expedite the increased production of certain citrus trees and commercialize certain technologies; specifying a timeframe for entering into such agreements; requiring a specified certification; creating s. 601.295, F.S.; creating the Citrus Recovery Loan Program within the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for a specified purpose; providing requirements for application to and the disbursement of funds within the program; providing requirements and terms for the loans; authorizing the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to adopt rules; creating the Local Government Water Supply Grant Program within the Department of Environmental Protection; providing the purpose of the program; providing eligibility requirements; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to expeditiously develop an application process; authorizing the Department of Environmental Protection to adopt rules; amending s. 380.5105, F.S.; providing legislative intent; creating, subject to appropriation, the working waterfronts capital outlay grant program; specifying the purpose of the grant program; providing eligible costs and expenditures for the grant program; providing requirements for the program; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to implement a process to monitor and evaluate grant recipient performance; amending s. 321.04, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the requirement that the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles assign one or more patrol officers to the office of Lieutenant Governor for security purposes, upon request of the Governor; extending for 1 fiscal year the requirement that the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles assign a patrol officer to a Cabinet member under certain circumstances; amending s. 288.80125, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year a requirement that funds in the Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund be related to Hurricane Michael recovery; reenacting s. 288.8013(3), F.S., relating to the Triumph Gulf Coast Trust Fund; providing for the future expiration and reversion of specified statutory text; amending s. 339.08, F.S.; appropriating funds to the State Transportation Trust Fund from the General Revenue Fund as provided in the General Appropriations Act; amending s. 339.135, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authority for the chair and vice chair of the Legislative Budget Commission to approve certain work program amendments under specified circumstances; reenacting and amending s. 250.245, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the Florida National Guard Joint Enlistment Enhancement Program within the Department of Military Affairs; amending s. 288.0655, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year a requirement that certain appropriated funds relating to the Rural Infrastructure Fund be distributed in a specified manner; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to submit budget amendments to increase budget authority for certain project expenditures; amending s. 112.061, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the authorization for the Lieutenant Governor to designate an alternative official headquarters under certain conditions; specifying restrictions, limitations, eligibility for the subsistence allowance, reimbursement of transportation expenses, and payment thereof; requiring the Department of Management Services to assess an administrative health insurance assessment on each state agency; providing the rate of such assessment; defining the term “state agency”; providing how a state agency shall remit certain funds; requiring the Department of Management Services to take certain actions in case of delinquencies; requiring the Chief Financial Officer to transfer funds under specified circumstances; providing an exception; requiring state agencies to provide a list of positions that qualify for such exception by a specified date and to update the list monthly thereafter; requiring state agencies to include the administrative health insurance assessment in their indirect cost plan; requiring agencies to notify the Department of Management Services regarding the approval of their updated indirect cost plans; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer budget authority between agencies in specified circumstances; providing that the annual salaries of the members of the Legislature be maintained at a specified level; reenacting s. 215.32(2)(b), F.S., relating to the authorization for transferring unappropriated cash balances from selected trust funds to the Budget Stabilization Fund and General Revenue Fund; providing for future expiration and reversion of specific statutory text; specifying the type of travel for which state employee travel funds may be used; providing exceptions; providing a monetary cap on lodging costs for state employee travel to certain meetings organized or sponsored by a state agency or the judicial branch; authorizing employees to expend their own funds for lodging expenses that exceed the monetary caps; amending s. 216.292, F.S.; extending for 1 fiscal year the requirements for certain transfers; authorizing state agencies to purchase vehicles from nonstate term contract vendors without prior approval from the Department of Management Services under certain circumstances; authorizing the Department of Management Services, the Executive Office of the Governor, the Commissioner of Agriculture, the Chief Financial Officer, and the Attorney General to enter into specified leases as a lessee without having to advertise or receive competitive solicitations; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to use specified funds to purchase lands or interests in lands within certain areas; requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to offer specified leases; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget to submit a budget amendment to realign funding within and between agencies in appropriation categories specifically authorized for implementation of the state’s award from the federal Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund; providing requirements for the realignment; requiring the budget amendment to be submitted by a specified date; providing conditions under which the veto of certain appropriations or proviso language in the General Appropriations Act voids language that implements such appropriation; providing for the continued operation of certain provisions notwithstanding a future repeal or expiration provided by the act; providing severability; providing for contingent retroactivity; providing effective dates.

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Laid on Table, refer to HB 5003 (on 02/08/2024)

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