Florida House Bill 1579 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on March 1 2021 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2021-04-26 - Laid on Table; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1934 (Ch. 2021-190)
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [PDF]

Subjects health care practitioners to disciplinary action for specified offenses; revises provisions relating to immediate suspension of licensure to apply to all health care practitioners; requires DOH to issue emergency orders to suspend health care practitioner's license if he or she pleads guilty to, is convicted or found guilty of, or enters plea of nolo contendere to, regardless of adjudication, felony relating to homicide or is arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit acts that would constitute violations of specified criminal offenses.

Health Care Practitioner Discipline

House Professions and Public Health Subcommittee	Rep. Vance Aloupis [R]	Rep. Christopher Benjamin [D]	Rep. Kamia Brown [D]
Rep. Daisy Morales [D]

2021-04-14 - House - House Health & Human Services Committee (Y: 20 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2021-03-23 - House - House Professions & Public Health Subcommittee (Y: 17 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-26	House	Laid on Table; companion bill(s) passed, see CS/SB 1934 (Ch. 2021-190)
2021-04-20	House	Added to Second Reading Calendar
2021-04-20	House	Temporarily postponed, on 2nd Reading
2021-04-15	House	Bill added to Special Order Calendar (4/20/2021)
2021-04-14	House	Added to Second Reading Calendar
2021-04-14	House	Bill released to House Calendar
2021-04-14	House	Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
2021-04-14	House	Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee
2021-04-12	House	Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
2021-03-26	House	Now in Health & Human Services Committee
2021-03-26	House	Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
2021-03-26	House	Original reference removed: Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
2021-03-25	House	1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
2021-03-24	House	CS Filed
2021-03-24	House	Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
2021-03-24	House	Reported out of Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
2021-03-23	House	Favorable with CS by Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
2021-03-19	House	PCS added to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee agenda
2021-03-05	House	Now in Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
2021-03-05	House	Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
2021-03-05	House	Referred to Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
2021-03-05	House	Referred to Professions & Public Health Subcommittee
2021-03-02	House	1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
2021-03-01	House	Filed

S1934 (Similar To) 2021-07-06 - Chapter No. 2021-190

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
456	072		Amended Code	See Bill Text
456	074		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/BillText/Filed/PDF
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/BillText/c1/PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/Analyses/h1579.PPH.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/Analyses/h1579a.HHS.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/Analyses/h1579b.HHS.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/Analyses/h1579z.PPH.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/1579/Analyses/h1579z1.PPH.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Committees/billvote.aspx?VoteId=59178&IsPCB=1&BillId=72815
Roll Call	https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Committees/billvote.aspx?VoteId=60248&IsPCB=0&BillId=72815