Florida Senate Bill 204 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-14 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creating the "Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act"; requiring that each health care facility implement a staffing plan that provides minimum direct care registered nurse staffing levels; prohibiting a health care facility from assigning unlicensed personnel to perform functions or tasks that should be performed by a licensed or registered nurse; requiring a direct care registered nurse to initiate action or to change a decision or an activity relating to a patient's health care under certain circumstances; prohibiting a health care facility from interfering with the right of direct care registered nurses to organize, bargain collectively, and engage in concerted activity under a federal act, etc.

Delivery of Nursing Services

Sen. Oscar Braynon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-14	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2020-03-14	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2020-01-14	Senate	Introduced
2019-09-19	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2019-08-29	Senate	Filed

H651 (Same As) 2020-03-14 - Died in Health Market Reform Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
395	1014		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/204
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2020/204/BillText/Filed/HTML