Florida House Bill 1311 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Failed on March 9 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-03-09 - Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Provides requirements for performance of supervising physicians; provides duties, scope, & location of practice for certified surgical first assistants; provides contracting & employment guidelines for employing certified surgical first assistants; provides licensure criteria; provides continuing education requirements; authorizes Board of Medicine to impose penalties; provides scope of certified surgical first assistant's license; provides for reciprocity of licenses; prohibits unlicensed person holding himself or herself out as licensed; provides for denial, suspension, or revocation of licensure; provides that supervising physicians may be liable for certain acts or omissions of certified surgical first assistants; provides for payments to physician assistant under contracts providing for payment for surgical first assisting benefits or services; includes certified surgical first assistants within certain payment provisions.

Surgical First Assistants

Rep. Jose Diaz [R]

Rep. Eduardo Gonzalez [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-03-09		Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee
2012-01-12		Referred to Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee; Rulemaking and Regulation Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 214
2012-01-10		Introduced -HJ 129
2012-01-06		Filed

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
627	419		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1311
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2012/1311/BillText/Filed/PDF