Florida Senate - 2009                             CS for SB 1592
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Health Regulation; and Senator Lynn
       
       
       
       
       588-03427-09                                          20091592c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to nurse registries and companion
    3         homemaker organizations; creating s. 400.510, F.S.;
    4         requiring nurse registries and organizations that
    5         provide companion or homemaker services to provide
    6         notice to patients or clients; specifying the contents
    7         of the notice; requiring the notice to be kept for a
    8         specified number of years; providing an exception;
    9         requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to
   10         develop a form for the notice; providing an effective
   11         date.
   12  
   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Section 400.510, Florida Statutes, is created to
   16  read:
   17         400.510 Client notice.—
   18         (1) Each nurse registry licensed under s. 400.506 and each
   19  organization registered under s. 400.509 must provide to each
   20  patient or client the following notice that identifies:
   21         (a) The nurse registry or organization as the referring
   22  entity or employer, joint employer, or leasing employer of the
   23  person providing the services; and
   24         (b) With respect to the person providing the services, who
   25  is responsible for:
   26         1. Daily supervision of the person;
   27         2. Assigning duties to the person;
   28         3. Hiring, firing, and disciplining the person;
   29         4. Providing equipment or materials for use by the person;
   30         5. Checking the person’s references; and
   31         6. Withholding the person’s social security taxes.
   32         (2) The notice must be signed by the patient, the client,
   33  or the legal representative of the patient or client no later
   34  than the date the contract for health care services is executed
   35  and must be retained by the nurse registry or organization at
   36  its office for at least 3 years after the termination of the
   37  contract with the patient or client.
   38         (3) Notice is not required when the person providing the
   39  services is temporarily substituting for the patient’s or
   40  client’s regular service worker.
   41         (4) The consumer notice shall be on a form developed by the
   42  agency.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.