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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



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)