Florida Senate Bill 876 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on April 30 2021 - 100% progression
Action: 2021-04-30 - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Revising the member composition requirements for the Board of Optometry; revising circumstances under which a certified optometrist may administer or prescribe ocular pharmaceutical agents; requiring the board to adopt a negative formulary of ocular pharmaceutical agents certified optometrists are prohibited from administering or prescribing; authorizing certain certified optometrists to perform laser and non-laser ophthalmic procedures and therapies under certain circumstances; requiring the board to determine the required content, grading criteria, and passing score for the licensure examination for certified optometrists; authorizing certified optometrists to remove superficial foreign bodies, etc.

Optometry

Sen. Manny Diaz [R]

2021-03-10 - Senate - Senate Health Policy (Y: 6 N: 3 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-04-30	Senate	Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
2021-03-10	Senate	Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services
2021-03-10	Senate	Favorable by Health Policy; YEAS 6 NAYS 3
2021-03-05	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/10/21, 10:30 am, 412 Knott Building
2021-03-03	Senate	On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/03/21, 12:00 pm, 412 Knott Building --Temporarily Postponed
2021-03-02	Senate	Introduced
2021-02-04	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2021-01-27	Senate	Filed

H631 (Same As) 2021-04-30 - Died in Health & Human Services Committee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
463	002		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	003		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	005		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0055		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0056		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0057		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	006		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	009		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	0135		Amended Code	See Bill Text
463	014		Amended Code	See Bill Text
641	31		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/876
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/876/BillText/Filed/HTML
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/876/Analyses/2021s00876.pre.hp.PDF
Supplement	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/876/Analyses/2021s00876.hp.PDF
Roll Call	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2021/876/Vote/2021-03-10%201030AM~S00876%20Vote%20Record.PDF