Florida Senate Bill 970

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Completed Legislative Action
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Failed on March 13 2026 - 100% progression
Action: 2026-03-13 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Enacting the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact; requiring member states to meet certain requirements to join and participate in the compact; providing criteria that a respiratory therapist licensee must satisfy to practice under the compact; authorizing a certain licensing authority or government agency to establish the scope of practice for a licensee providing therapy in a remote state; authorizing member states to participate with other member states in joint investigations of licensees under certain circumstances; establishing the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact Commission, etc.

Respiratory Care Interstate Compact

Sen. Tommy Wright [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-13	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2026-01-13	Senate	Introduced
2026-01-07	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy
2025-12-18	Senate	Filed

S972 (Related) 2026-03-13 - Died in Health Policy
H1235 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Health & Human Services Committee
H1237 (Similar To) 2026-03-13 - Died in Government Operations Subcommittee

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
456	076		Amended Code	See Bill Text
468	353		Amended Code	See Bill Text
468	355		Amended Code	See Bill Text
468	361		Amended Code	See Bill Text
468	371		Amended Code	See Bill Text
768	28		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/970
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/970/BillText/Filed/HTML