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2012 Legislative Session
2012 Legislative
Session
Senate
Bills
GENERAL
BILL by Transportation;
Benacquisto
Transportation Accessibility;
Providing a tax exemption for
the sale or lease of accessible
vehicles; requiring the Office
of Program Policy Analysis and
Government Accountability to
conduct a study to determine the
availability of accessible
taxicabs operating in
metropolitan and tourist
destination areas of the state;
describing the information to be
collected in the study;
requiring the Office of Program
Policy Analysis and Government
Accountability to include in its
final report recommendations for
consideration by the
Legislature, etc.
Senate
Committee References:
Transportation (TR) ,
Budget Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (BFT)
,
Budget (BC)
Last Action: 03/09/2012
Died in Messages
Effective Date:
July 1, 2012
SB
226: Disability (similar to HB 27,
below)
GENERAL BILL by Budget
Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
Economic Development Appropriations; Margolis;
(CO-INTRODUCER) Gaetz
Disabled
Parking Permits; Providing for a parking
enforcement specialist or agency to validate
compliance for the disposition of a citation
issued for illegally parking in a space provided
for people who have disabilities; revising
requirements for renewal or replacement of a
disabled parking permit; prohibiting applying
for a new disabled parking permit for a certain
period of time upon a second finding of guilt or
plea of nolo contendere to unlawful use of such
permit; requiring the Department of Highway
Safety and Motor Vehicles to randomly review
disabled parking permitholders, verify certain
information, and invalidate the permit of a
deceased permitholder; directing the department
to implement a means for reporting abuse of
disabled parking permits, etc.
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Last Event:
04/29/12 Chapter No.
2012-157 on Sunday,
April 29, 2012 2:00
PM
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Effective Date: July 1,
2012
SB
1192: Disability (similar to HB 405,
below)
GENERAL BILL by
Transportation; Lynn; (CO-INTRODUCER) Bennett
Persons with
Disabilities; Requiring law enforcement
agencies to report certain criminal activity and
enforcement of certain laws to the Department of
Law Enforcement and the Department of Highway
Safety and Motor Vehicles; requiring that, in
determining whether to approve courses offered
by driver improvement schools, the Department of
Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles consider
course content related to the study of traffic
laws to assist legally blind and
mobility-impaired persons; providing
requirements for examination questions
pertaining to traffic laws relating to legally
blind and mobility-impaired persons; requiring
driver education programs to include study of
traffic laws to assist legally blind and
mobility-impaired persons, etc.
Senate
Committee References:
Transportation (TR) ,
Criminal Justice (CJ) ,
Budget (BC)
Last Action: 03/09/2012
Died in Criminal Justice
Effective Date: July 1,
2012
SB
730: Other (similar to HB 727,
below)
GENERAL BILL by Health
Regulation; Flores; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Negron;
Gaetz
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Medicaid
Managed Care: Specifying
which health plan entities are subject
to the subscriber assistance program;
authorizing the Agency for Health Care
Administration to extend or modify
certain contracts with behavioral health
care providers under specified
circumstances; directing the agency to
calculate a medical loss ratio for
managed care plans under specified
circumstances and providing the method
of calculation; specifying that
contracts necessary to administer the
Medicaid program are not rules and are
not subject to ch. 120, F.S., the
Administrative Procedure Act, etc.
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SB Substituted for |
CS/HB 727 By Health &
Human Services Committee and
Ingram
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Effective Date:
except as otherwise provided, this act
shall take effect July 1, 2012
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Last Event:
04/07/12 Chapter No. 2012-44 on
Saturday, April 07, 2012 8:54 AM
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SB 7104 - Transportation (no similar House
Bill)
PROPOSED
COMMITTEE BILL by Budget
Transportation; Transferring control
of the Mid-Bay Bridge Authority system to the
Florida Turnpike Enterprise; transferring all
provisions that protect the rights of certain
bondholders from the authority to the turnpike
enterprise; providing for the proceeds of
certain penalties to be deposited into the
Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund rather than
the State Transportation Trust Fund and for such
funds to be used for the general operations of
the Department of Highway Safety and Motor
Vehicles rather than for repairing and
maintaining roads in the state, etc. and
re-distribution of certain vehicle registration
and title fees currently deposited in the
General Revenue Fund to be deposited in the
State Transportation Trust, and specifies the
uses of those revenues. This includes $5
million to the Transportation Disadvantaged
Trust Fund.
Last Action:
02/16/2012
Submit as
committee bill
by Budget (SB
1998)
Effective Date: July
1, 2012
House Bills
HB 1201 - Transportation Accessibility (similar to SB 1392,
above)
Transportation Accessibility: Cites
act as "Florida Transportation Accessibility Independence Act"; requires certain
fleet owners to provide accessible taxicabs after certain date; requires certain
airports & deepwater ports to provide accessible taxicabs after certain date;
provides tax exemption for sale or lease of accessible vehicles; requires
transportation services that provide transportation for Medicaid recipients to
certify to AHCA that transportation service uses accessible vehicles.
Effective Date: July 1, 2012
Last Event: Died in
Transportation & Highway Safety Subcommittee on Friday, March 09, 2012 11:59 PM
HB
27 - Disability (similar to SB 226, above)
General Bill by Julien (CO-SPONSORS) Berman;
Campbell; Gaetz; Grant; Porth; Sands; Soto
Disabled Parking Permits: Provides for
parking enforcement specialist or agency to validate compliance for disposition
of citation issued for illegally parking in space provided for people who have
disabilities; revises requirements for renewal or replacement of disabled
parking permit; prohibits applying for new disabled parking permit for certain
period of time upon second finding of guilt or plea of nolo contendere to
unlawful use of such permit; requires Auditor General to compare disabled
parking permit holders with death records & forward list of deceased
permitholders to DHSMV; requires department to invalidate permit of deceased
permitholder; directs department to implement means for reporting abuse of
disabled parking permits.
Effective Date: July 1, 2012
Last Event: Companion Bill
passed, refer to CS/SB 226 on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 11:20 AM; HB Laid on Table
HB
405 - Disability (similar to SB 1192, above)
Persons with Disabilities: Requires
law enforcement agencies to report certain criminal activity & enforcement of
certain regulations to FDLE & DHSMV; provides requirements for examination
questions pertaining to traffic regulations relating to legally blind & mobility
impaired persons; requires certain driver education programs & law enforcement
officer basic skills course to include study of traffic laws to assist legally
blind & mobility impaired persons.
Effective Date: July 1, 2012
Last Event: Died in Criminal
Justice Subcommittee on Friday, March 09, 2012 11:59 PM
HB
727 - Other (similar to SB 730, above)
Medicaid Managed Care Plans: Requires
AHCA to establish per-member, per-month payments; substitutes Medicare Advantage
Coordinated Care Plan for Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plan; revises
definition of “eligible plan” to include certain Medicare plans; limits penalty
that plan must pay if it leaves region before end of contract term; provides
that certain Medicare plans are not subject to procurement requirements or plan
limits; requires dually eligible Medicaid recipients to be enrolled in Medicare
plan in which they are already enrolled; revises list of Medicare plans that are
not subject to procurement requirements for long-term plans; revises list of
Medicare plans in which dually eligible Medicaid recipients are enrolled in
order to receive long-term care.
Effective Date: July 1, 2012
Last Event: Companion Bill
passed, refer to CS/SB 730 on Tuesday, March 06, 2012 11:33 AM; HB Laid on Table
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