Florida Senate Bill 718 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Health Regulation
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Authorizing the Board of Optometry to adopt rules for the administration and prescription of ocular pharmaceutical agents rather than topical ocular pharmaceutical agents; authorizing certified optometrists to administer and prescribe ocular pharmaceutical agents under certain circumstances; amending provisions relating to licensure and regulation of clinical laboratories operated by practitioners for exclusive use; providing applicability to clinical laboratories operated by practitioners licensed to practice optometry; requiring clinical laboratories to accept human specimens submitted by practitioners licensed to practice under ch. 463, F.S.; revising the burden of proof that a claimant must demonstrate in order to prove medical negligence by a health care provider or an emergency health care provider; prohibiting certified optometrists from administering and prescribing certain controlled substances, etc.

Health Care

Sen. Michael Bennett [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Health Regulation
2012-01-10		Introduced -SJ 61
2011-11-16		Referred to Health Regulation; Judiciary; Budget -SJ 61
2011-10-27		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
463	002		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	005		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0055		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0057		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	006		Amended Code	See Bill Text
483	035		Amended Code	See Bill Text
483	041		Amended Code	See Bill Text
483	181		Amended Code	See Bill Text
766	102		Amended Code	See Bill Text
893	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
893	05		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/718
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0718/BillText/Filed/HTML