2025 Regular SessionFlorida Legislature

S0170: Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

Legislative Summary

Reviving, reenacting, and amending a provision relating to consumer satisfaction surveys; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop user-friendly consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home facilities; requiring medical directors of nursing home facilities to obtain, or to be in the process of obtaining, certain qualifications by a specified date; requiring nursing home facilities to conduct biennial patient safety culture surveys; requiring nursing home facilities that maintain certain electronic health records to make available certain data to the agency's Florida Health Information Exchange program for a specified purpose; exempting nursing homes operated by state agencies from certain financial reporting requirements, etc.

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Bill History

2/25/2025
Filed
Senate
2/25/2025
Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
Senate
2/27/2025
On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/04/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Senate
3/4/2025
CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
Senate
3/4/2025
Introduced
Senate
3/5/2025
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
Senate
3/5/2025
Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
Senate
3/10/2025
CS by Health Policy read 1st time
Senate
3/21/2025
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
Senate
3/26/2025
CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
Senate
3/28/2025
Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
Senate
3/28/2025
Now in Appropriations
Senate
3/28/2025
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
Senate
3/31/2025
On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
Senate
4/2/2025
Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
Senate
4/2/2025
CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
Senate
4/3/2025
Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
Senate
4/3/2025
Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
Senate
4/9/2025
Read 2nd time
Senate
4/9/2025
Read 3rd time
Senate
4/9/2025
CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
Senate
4/9/2025
Immediately certified
Senate
4/9/2025
In Messages
House of Representatives

Amendments

Senate Committee Amendment #488560

3/3/2025Not Adopted

Roll Call Votes

Senate: Third Reading RCS#26
4/9/2025
37
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
1
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Appropriations
4/2/2025
18
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
3/26/2025
10
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED
Senate Health Policy
3/4/2025
10
Yea
0
Nay
0
Not Voting
0
Absent
Result: PASSED

Status Information

Current Status
Engrossed(4/9/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives

Sponsors

Republican: 1

Documents

Comm Sub
Bill Text3/28/202541.1 KB
Comm Sub
Bill Text3/5/202533.3 KB
Introduced
Bill Text2/25/202533.1 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter4/3/2025244.1 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter4/1/2025244.2 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter3/28/2025245.2 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter3/25/2025238.8 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter3/5/2025230.3 KB
Veto Letter
Veto Letter3/3/2025225.2 KB