SB 1602 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Health Care Patient Protection

Summary

Health Care Patient Protection; Requiring hospital emergency departments to develop and implement policies and procedures, conduct training, record weights in a certain manner, designate a pediatric emergency care coordinator, and conduct specified assessments; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt certain rules for comprehensive emergency management plans; requiring the agency to collect and publish the results of specified assessments submitted by hospitals by specified dates, etc.

Issues: ✓ Healthcare

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Mar 10, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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What changed between versions

S 1602 Filed → S 1602 c1 · 3 edits

MINOR

This bill was amended from its original version to add flexibility for hospitals by allowing them to conduct an 'Open Assessment' in years when the mandatory National Pediatric Readiness Assessment is not scheduled. The amendment also clarifies how the Agency for Health Care Administration should collect and publish pediatric readiness scores, including tracking both mandatory and optional assessments.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include an optional assessment pathway for hospitals, in addition to the mandatory assessment requirement.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new subsection allowing hospitals to conduct the National Pediatric Readiness Project's Open Assessment during years when the mandatory assessment is not conducted.

TIMELINE

Modified the agency's data collection timeline to include collecting scores from both mandatory assessments and the new optional Open Assessments.

ENFORCEMENT

Added requirements for the agency to publish comparison scores for hospitals that conduct optional assessments against their most recently published mandatory assessment score.

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Committee

Apr 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Favorable by- Fiscal Policy; YEAS 18 NAYS 0

upper

Apr 17, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Fiscal Policy, 04/22/25, 11:00 am, 412 Knott Building

upper

Apr 15, 2025

Upper · Passed

Favorable by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0

upper

Apr 10, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 04/15/25, 8:30 am, 412 Knott Building

upper

Apr 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

upper

Apr 3, 2025

Upper · Passed

Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)

upper

Mar 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 04/01/25, 1:30 pm, 412 Knott Building

upper

Mar 10, 2025

Introduced

upper

Mar 6, 2025

Committee

Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Fiscal Policy

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors