Florida Senate Bill 1254 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Failed on March 14 2022 - 100% progression
Action: 2022-03-14 - Died in Health Policy
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Revising components that are included in the postpartum evaluation and follow-up care birth centers are required to provide to include a cardiac screening of the newborn; requiring attending health care providers at home births to provide or coordinate the referral for a newborn cardiovascular screening; requiring the newborn's primary care provider to provide or coordinate the referral for the screening if a health care provider does not attend the home birth; requiring hospitals that provide birthing services to provide a postpartum evaluation that includes the cardiovascular screening of each newborn, etc.

Cardiac Screening for Newborns

Sen. Joe Gruters [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2022-03-14	Senate	Died in Health Policy
2022-03-12	Senate	Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
2022-01-11	Senate	Introduced
2022-01-05	Senate	Referred to Health Policy; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules
2021-12-15	Senate	Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
383	318		Amended Code	See Bill Text
383	334		Amended Code	See Bill Text
395	1053		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1254
Text	https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/1254/BillText/Filed/HTML