Florida 2023 Legislative End of Session Summary
The Florida 2023 Legislative Session ends on May 5th. Over the last 7 weeks, multiple bills have advanced, impacting healthcare delivery and health education. Below is a brief summary of some of the bills from this session and their status.
CS/SB 230/HB 583: Health Care Practitioner Titles and Designations
Sponsors: Harrell/Massullo
Provides use of specified titles or designations in connection with one’s name constitutes practice of medicine; revises grounds for disciplinary action relating to practitioner’s use of such titles or designations in identifying himself or herself to patients or in advertisements for health care services; requires health care practitioners to prominently display copies of their licenses; requires health care practitioners to also verbally identify themselves in specified manner to new patients.
Senate: Passed and in messages, pending house vote
House: 2 nd reading, pending vote
CS/SB 254: Treatments for Sex Reassignment
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; requiring certain licensed facilities, by a specified date and as a condition of licensure thereafter, to provide a signed attestation of specified information to the Agency for Health Care Administration; prohibiting sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures for patients younger than 18 years of age, etc.
Senate/House: Passed with amendments
CS/CS/SB 1506: Department of Health
GENERAL BILL by Rules ; Health Policy ; Rodriguez
Limits marketing of marijuana products to children/adolescents. Requires death certificates for individuals being cared for by an autonomous APRN be signed by the APRN AND 2 physicians.
Pending floor vote in House/Senate
SB 274: Nursing Education Pathway for Military Combat Medics
GENERAL BILL by Avila ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Burgess ; Osgood ; Perry
Creates an accelerated educational pathways to a nursing licensure for military combat veterans
Passed in the Senate/Pending final vote in House
CS/SB 558: Certified Nursing Assistants
GENERAL BILL by Health Policy ; Burton
Certified Nursing Assistants; Authorizing nursing home facilities to allow their registered nurses to delegate certain tasks to certified nursing assistants who meet specified criteria
Passed in Senate/Pending vote in House
SB 568: Assault or Battery on Hospital Personnel
GENERAL BILL by Rodriguez ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Hooper ; Torres ; Book
Providing enhanced criminal penalties for persons who knowingly commit assault or battery upon hospital personnel, etc.
Pending Vote in Senate/Passed House
SB 416: Antiretroviral Drugs
Would allow pharmacists to prescribe antiretroviral drugs in certain circumstances
No Action/considered dead
SB 864: Death with Dignity
Assisted suicide in limited circumstances
No action/considered dead
SB 956: Foreign-licensed Physicians
GENERAL BILL by Rodriguez
Providing for provisional licenses by endorsement for certain foreign-licensed physicians;
No action, considered dead
SB 1222: Corporate Practice of Medicine
GENERAL BILL by Powell
Providing additional acts that constitute grounds for denial of a license to practice medicine or for disciplinary action, to which penalties apply, etc.
No Action/considered dead
SB 1498: Invalid Restrictive Covenants in Health Care
GENERAL BILL by Brodeur
Specifying that certain restrictive covenants in employment agreements relating to certain licensed physicians
No Action/Considered dead
SB 156: Physical Therapy Licensure Compact
GENERAL BILL by Harrell
Physical Therapy Licensure Compact; Creating the Physical Therapy Licensure Compact
No Action/Considered dead
SB 1192: Certified Nurse Midwives
GENERAL BILL by Rodriguez
Certified Nurse Midwives; Requiring certain certified nurse midwives, in order to provide out-of-hospital intrapartum care
No Action/Considered Dead
SB 1058: Autonomous Practice by Advanced Practice Registered Nurses
GENERAL BILL by Rodriguez
certain advanced practice registered nurses from specified medical direction requirements for clinical privileges in hospitals; revising requirements for certified nurse midwives registered to engage in autonomous practice
No Action/Considered Dead
