Florida Senate Bill 1732 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on May 3 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-05-03 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Creating the "Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act"; providing minimum staffing level requirements for the ratio of direct care registered nurses to patients in a health care facility; specifying the required nurse-to-patient ratios for each type of care provided; requiring that the Agency for Health Care Administration develop uniform standards for use by health care facilities in establishing nurse staffing requirements; authorizing a direct care registered nurse to refuse to perform certain activities if he or she determines that it is not in the best interests of the patient, etc.

Health Care

Sen. Oscar Braynon [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-05-03	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2013-03-07	Senate	Introduced
2013-03-07	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2013-03-02	Senate	Filed

H1397 (Similar To) 2013-05-03 - Died in Health Innovation Subcommittee

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/1732
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2013/1732/BillText/Filed/HTML