Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 380
       
       
        
       By Senator Garcia
       
       
       
       
       
       36-00676-23                                            2023380__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to protection from surgical smoke;
    3         creating s. 395.1013, F.S.; defining the terms “smoke
    4         evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring
    5         hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to, by a
    6         specified date, adopt and implement policies requiring
    7         the use of smoke evacuation systems during certain
    8         surgical procedures; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 395.1013, Florida Statutes, is created
   13  to read:
   14         395.1013 Smoke evacuation systems required.—
   15         (1) As used in this section, the term:
   16         (a) “Smoke evacuation system” means equipment that
   17  effectively captures, filters, and eliminates surgical smoke at
   18  the site of origin before the smoke makes contact with the eyes
   19  or respiratory tract of occupants in the room.
   20         (b) “Surgical smoke” means the gaseous byproduct produced
   21  by energy-generating devices such as lasers and electrosurgical
   22  devices. The term includes, but is not limited to, surgical
   23  plume, smoke plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne
   24  contaminants, and lung-damaging dust.
   25         (2) By January 1, 2024, each licensed facility shall adopt
   26  and implement policies that require the use of a smoke
   27  evacuation system during any surgical procedure that is likely
   28  to generate surgical smoke.
   29         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.