HB 1117: Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act
GENERAL BILL by Holloway ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Bucher ; Bullard ; Kendrick ; Meadows ; Robaina ; Taylor, P ; Zapata
Safe Staffing for Quality Care Act; prescribes safe staffing standards for health care facilities; requires licensed facilities to submit annual staffing plan to AHCA; provides standards for required skill mix; requires compliance with staffing plan; provides to employees right to refuse certain assignments & right to report suspected violations of safe staffing standards; provides for agency to enforce compliance with act, etc. Creates 395.051-.057.
Effective Date: 07/01/2005
Last Action: 5/6/2005 House - Died in Committee on Health Care Regulation (HFC)
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Last Action: 5/6/2005 House - Died in Committee on Health Care Regulation (HFC)
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Bill History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2/23/2005 | House |
• Filed |
| 3/8/2005 | House |
• Introduced -HJ 00096 |
| 3/9/2005 | House |
• Referred to Health Care Regulation (HFC); Health Care Appropriations (FC); Health & Families Council -HJ 00195 |
| 5/6/2005 | House |
• Died in Committee on Health Care Regulation (HFC) |