Health Care Patient Protection
Summary
Health Care Patient Protection; Requires hospital emergency departments to develop & implement policies & procedures, conduct training, record weights in certain manner, designate pediatric emergency care coordinator, & conduct specified assessments; authorizes hospital with emergency department to conduct National Pediatric Readiness Project's Open Assessment under certain conditions; requires agency to adopt certain rules for comprehensive emergency management plans, and, in consultation with Florida Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program, establish minimum standards for pediatric patient care in hospital emergency departments; requires agency to collect & publish results of specified assessments submitted by hospitals by specified dates; provides requirements for collection & publication of such assessment scores.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Nov 2025
Committee Review
Jan 2026
House Passage
Jan 2026
Senate Passage
Mar 2026
Signed into Law
May 2026
Introduced Nov 5, 2025
Signed May 22, 2026
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MINOR
The bill has been updated from a committee version to its enrolled, final version. The primary changes are technical formatting updates, including the addition of 'ENROLLED' and '2026 Legislature' headers and the removal of blank lines, indicating the bill has passed all legislative stages and is ready for the Governor's signature.
TECHNICAL
Updated bill headers to reflect the 'ENROLLED' status and the '2026 Legislature' session, replacing previous committee identifiers.
Deleted multiple blank lines at the top of the document to clean up the layout.
Changed the footer identifier from 'hb355-01-c1' (Committee 1) to 'hb355 -01-er' (Enrolled).
Floor votes · Senate Mar 11, 2026 · House Jan 15, 2026
How they voted
37–0
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 40
Mar 11, 2026
D
Democratic11
90% Yea
I
Independent1
0% Nay
R
Republican28
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
36
Key actions
11
Committee
12
May 22, 2026
Signed into law
Approved by Governor
legislature
Mar 11, 2026
Upper · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 36 NAYS 0
upper
Jan 16, 2026
Committee
Referred to Fiscal Policy
upper
Jan 15, 2026
Lower · Passed
CS passed; YEAS 109, NAYS 0
lower
Dec 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Health & Human Services Committee
lower
Dec 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable by Health & Human Services Committee
lower
Dec 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
Added to Health & Human Services Committee agenda
lower
Dec 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Now in Health & Human Services Committee
lower
Dec 3, 2025
Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
lower
Dec 3, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
lower
Dec 2, 2025
Lower · Passed
Favorable with CS by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
lower
Nov 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
Added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda
lower
Nov 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
lower
Nov 12, 2025
Committee
Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
lower
Nov 12, 2025
Committee
Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
lower
1 primary · 2 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Vanessa Oliver
RRepublican
Co
JL
Johanna López
DDemocratic
Co
SV
Susan Valdés
RRepublican
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