SB 514 Florida Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Medical Review Committees

Summary

Medical Review Committees; Revising the definition of the term “medical review committee”; revising provisions related to discovery and evidence in civil and administrative actions to conform to changes made by the act, etc.

Bill status died 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Mar 2025

Committee Review

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Governor

Introduced Mar 4, 2025 Last action Jun 16, 2025

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S 514 Filed → S 514 c1 · 4 edits

MODERATE

This bill amends Florida's medical review committee statutes to clarify and expand the definition of which committees qualify for privilege protections, while also correcting grammatical errors in the text. The changes ensure that committees from various healthcare entities, including new additions like pharmacy quality improvement committees and specific departmental committees, maintain confidentiality protections in legal proceedings.

Scope change

The scope was expanded to explicitly include pharmacy continuous quality improvement committees and clarified eligibility for several departmental committees, while also correcting redundant language that could have caused confusion in legal interpretation.

DEFINITION

Corrected grammatical errors in the definition of medical review committees, including removing redundant words like 'includes includes' and 'deems as deemed' that appeared in the original text.

Clarified the language regarding committees of the Department of Children and Families to remove repetitive phrasing about who may be included in peer review processes.

Corrected grammatical issues in the continuous quality improvement committee definition to improve clarity about what these committees evaluate regarding healthcare quality and costs.

TECHNICAL

Updated formatting and removed duplicate page headers and metadata from the original filing version to create a cleaner committee substitute version.

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Committee

Mar 5, 2025

Upper · Passed

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

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Mar 4, 2025

Introduced

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Feb 27, 2025

Upper · Passed

On Committee agenda-- Judiciary, 03/04/25, 4:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

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Feb 20, 2025

Committee

Referred to Judiciary; Children, Families, and Elder Affairs; Rules

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1 primary · 0 co-sponsors