Florida Senate Bill 376 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 8 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-08 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Citing this act as the "Florida Patient Protection Act"; requiring health care facilities to implement staffing plans that comply with specified minimum staffing levels for direct care registered nurses; requiring that patients be cared for only in hospital or clinical units that meet the specified minimum staffing levels; providing whistle-blower protections; providing for complaints to and administrative actions by the Agency for Health Care Administration; prohibiting employers from taking specified actions with respect to employment for certain unionized staff, etc.

Delivery of Patient Protection

Sen. Ileana Garcia [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-08	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2024-01-09	Senate	Introduced
2023-11-15	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
2023-11-08	Senate	Filed

H695 (Same As) 2024-03-08 - Died in Select Committee on Health Innovation

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
395	1013		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/376
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/376/BillText/Filed/HTML