Florida House Bill 261 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 11-2)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Authorizes Board of Optometry to adopt rules for administration & prescription of ocular pharmaceutical agents; authorizes certified optometrists to administer & prescribe ocular pharmaceutical agents; revises qualifications of certain members of formulary committee; revises provisions relating to licensure & regulation of clinical laboratories operated by practitioners for exclusive use; provides applicability to clinical laboratories operated by practitioners licensed to practice optometry; revises definition of "licensed practitioner" to include practitioner licensed under ch. 463, F.S.; requires clinical laboratories to accept human specimens submitted by practitioners licensed under ch. 463, F.S.; revises definition of "practitioner" to include certified optometrist for purposes of Florida Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention & Control Act; prohibits certified optometrists from administering & prescribing certain controlled substances.

Eye Health Care

Rep. Joseph Abruzzo [D]	Rep. Janet Adkins [R]	Rep. Larry Ahern [R]	Sen. Frank Artiles [R]
Rep. Rachel Burgin [R]	Rep. Matthew Caldwell [R]	Rep. Marti Coley [R]	Rep. Richard Corcoran [R]
Rep. Brad Drake [R]	Rep. Charles McBurney [R]	Rep. Elizabeth Porter [R]	Rep. Carlos Trujillo [R]
Rep. Alan Williams [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 27
2011-10-17		Referred to Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee; Rulemaking and Regulation Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 27
2011-10-04		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
893	02		Amended Code	See Bill Text
893	05		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/261
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/0261/BillText/Filed/HTML