Vol. 47, No. 106 (06/02/2021)

1. Notices of Development of Proposed Rules and Negotiated Rulemaking

• Department of Management Services
  • Division of Administrative Hearings
    • To amend the procedural rules applicable to workers' compensation adjudications as necessary to improve the adjudicatory process.
• Department of Children and Families
  • Family Safety and Preservation Program
    • The Department intends to update Rule Chapter 65C-16 to conform to current statute and practice.
    • The Department intends to amend rule 65C-28.011, F.A.C., to align background screening requirements for parents, relatives, and nonrelatives with requirements for out-of-home caregivers.
    • The rules were last amended in 1998. The Department intends to update the rules to comport with current practice and policy.
• Department of Environmental Protection
  • Departmental
    • The Department is initiating rulemaking to establish Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for certain Florida surface waters, where those waters previously have been identified as impaired for specific pollutants and included ....

2. Proposed Rules

• Department of Business and Professional Regulation
  • Departmental
    • The proposed rulemaking seeks to amend Rule 61-35.025, F.A.C., in order to adopt revised form DBPR VM 1- Application for Veterinary Medicine Examination, which has been updated to remove outdated language from the instructions.....
      • Due of Comment: 6/23/2021
• Department of Health
  • Board of Massage Therapy
    • The Board proposes the rule amendment to adopt new streamlined application.
      • Due of Comment: 6/23/2021
    • The Board proposes the rule amendment to adopt new streamlined application
      • Due of Comment: 6/23/2021
    • The Board proposes the rule amendment to adopt new streamlined application
      • Due of Comment: 6/23/2021
    • The Board proposes the rule amendment to adopt new streamlined application.
      • Due of Comment: 6/23/2021

3. Notices of Changes, Corrections and Withdrawals

• Department of Health
  • Board of Occupational Therapy
    • Standards of Practice; Discipline

4. Petitions and Dispositions Regarding Rule Variance or Waiver

• Department of Health
  • Board of Optometry
    • variance or waiver filed by Danielle Dramen. Petitioner is seeking a variance or waiver of Rule 64B13-4.001(1)(d)2. and 3., F.A.C., which states in part that the licensure examination authorized in section 463.006(2), F.S., ....
    • variance or waiver filed by Sarah Phen. Petitioner is seeking a variance or waiver of Rule 64B13-4.001(1)(d)2. and 3., F.A.C., which states in part that the licensure examination authorized in section 463.006(2), F.S., shall ....
• Department of Environmental Protection
  • Departmental
    • variance pursuant to Section 120.542, F.S. from the School Board of St. Johns County. The petitioner requested a variance from Rule 62-602.270(1), F.A.C, of the requirement that a candidate has to have a high school diploma ....
• Florida Housing Finance Corporation
  • Departmental
    • waiver of Rule 67-48.0072(26) and the Loan Closing Timeframes in RFA 2018-116 from SP Forest, LLC for an extension of the loan closing deadline to December 19, 2021.
• Department of Business and Professional Regulation
  • Board of Accountancy
    • for variance or waiver filed by Marina Hernandez which was amended and filed on May 25, 2021. Petitioner seeks a permanent variance or waiver of rule 61H1-28.0052(1)(b), F.A.C., regarding the timeframes with respect to ....
    • variance or waiver filed by Ronald D. Rooks, seeking a variance or waiver of Rule 61H1-31.006, F.A.C., which requires that each Florida certified public accountant for reactivation of a delinquent status license to active ....
  • Division of Hotels and Restaurants
    • A Routine Variance for Subparagraph 61C-1.004(1)(a), Florida Administrative Code and Paragraph 5-202.11(A), 2017 FDA Food Code from BELIEVIN LLC located in Orlando. The above referenced F.A.C. addresses the requirement ....
• Department of Management Services
  • Public Employees Relations Commission
    • On May 26, 2021, the Public Employees Relations Commission issued a final order in Case No. MS-2021-014 granting an unopposed emergency petition for variance from Florida Administrative Code Rule 60CC-4.002 filed by Robert ....
    • On May 26, 2021, the Public Employees Relations Commission issued a final order in Case No. MS-2021-015 granting an unopposed emergency petition for variance from Florida Administrative Code Rule 60CC-4.002 filed by Karla ....
    • variance from Rule 60CC-4.002, F.A.C., from Paul Ortiz and the United Faculty of Florida to conduct all aspects of a ratification election electronically. The petition was assigned Case No. MS-2021-016. Any interested ....

5. Miscellaneous

• Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
  • Division of Plant Industry
    • 2022 ENDANGERED AND THREATENED NATIVE FLORA CONSERVATION GRANTS PROGRAM