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HB 607 Florida House · 2020 Regular Session

Direct Care Workers

Summary
Direct Care Workers; Requiring a licensed home health agency that authorizes a registered nurse to delegate tasks to a certified nursing assistant or a home health aide to ensure that certain requirements are met; requiring home health aides to complete annual inservice training in medication administration and medication error prevention, in addition to existing annual inservice training requirements; creating the Excellence in Home Health Program and the Nurse Registry Excellence Program, respectively, within the agency for a specified purpose; requiring the agency to adopt rules establishing program criteria, etc. APPROPRIATION: $5,789,297
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2020
Committee Review
Mar 2020
House Passage
Mar 2020
Senate Passage
Mar 2020
Signed into Law
Mar 2020
Introduced Jan 14, 2020 Signed Mar 11, 2020
Floor votes · House Mar 11, 2020

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
40
Key actions
15
Committee
10
Mar 11, 2020
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Mar 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
CS passed as amended; YEAS 107 NAYS 8
lower
Mar 11, 2020
Lower · Passed
Concurred in 1 amendment(s) (707914)
lower
Mar 11, 2020
Upper · Passed
CS passed as amended; YEAS 30 NAYS 10
upper
Mar 10, 2020
Upper · Passed
Amendment(s) adopted (707914)
upper
Mar 6, 2020
Committee
Referred to Appropriations
upper
Mar 6, 2020
Lower · Passed
CS passed as amended; YEAS 94 NAYS 12
lower
Mar 5, 2020
Lower · Passed
Amendment(s) adopted (192181)
lower
Feb 26, 2020
Lower · Passed
CS/CS by- Health and Human Services Committee; YEAS 15 NAYS 0
lower
Feb 24, 2020
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health and Human Services Committee, 02/26/20, 9:00 am, Morris Hall
lower
Jan 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Now in Health and Human Services Committee
lower
Jan 15, 2020
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; YEAS 11 NAYS 0
lower
Jan 14, 2020
Introduced
Introduced
lower
Jan 13, 2020
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee, 01/15/20, 1:00 pm, Sumner Hall
lower
Dec 18, 2019
Lower · Passed
Now in Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee
lower
Dec 11, 2019
Lower · Passed
CS by Health Quality Subcommittee; YEAS 14 NAYS 1
lower
Dec 4, 2019
Lower · Passed
On Committee agenda-- Health Quality Subcommittee, 12/11/19, 8:30 am, Webster Hall
lower
Nov 25, 2019
Committee
Referred to Health Quality Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.