The Florida Senate

HB 261: Eye Health Care

GENERAL BILL by Caldwell ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Abruzzo ; Adkins ; Ahern ; Artiles ; Burgin ; Coley ; Corcoran ; Drake ; McBurney ; Porter ; Trujillo ; Williams

Eye Health Care; Authorizes Board of Optometry to adopt rules for administration & prescription of ocular pharmaceutical agents; authorizes certified optometrists to administer & prescribe ocular pharmaceutical agents; revises qualifications of certain members of formulary committee; revises provisions relating to licensure & regulation of clinical laboratories operated by practitioners for exclusive use; provides applicability to clinical laboratories operated by practitioners licensed to practice optometry; revises definition of "licensed practitioner" to include practitioner licensed under ch. 463, F.S.; requires clinical laboratories to accept human specimens submitted by practitioners licensed under ch. 463, F.S.; revises definition of "practitioner" to include certified optometrist for purposes of Florida Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention & Control Act; prohibits certified optometrists from administering & prescribing certain controlled substances.

• Bill History
• Related Bills (5)
• Bill Text (1)
• Amendments (0)
• Analyses (0)
• Vote History (0)
• Citations (10)

Bill History

Date	Chamber	Action
10/4/2011	House	• Filed
10/17/2011	House	• Referred to Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee; Rulemaking and Regulation Subcommittee; Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee; Health and Human Services Committee -HJ 27
1/10/2012	House	• Introduced -HJ 27
3/9/2012	House	• Died in Health and Human Services Quality Subcommittee

Related Bills

Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location	Track Bills
S 788	Eye Health Care	Bennett	Identical	Last Action: 3/9/2012 S Died in Health Regulation Location: In committee/council (HR)
S 718	Health Care	Bennett	Similar	Last Action: 3/9/2012 S Died in Health Regulation Location: In committee/council (HR)
S 1014	Health Care	Bennett	Compare	Last Action: 3/9/2012 S Died in Health Regulation Location: In committee/council (HR)
S 1316 (c2)	Health Care	Gaetz	Compare	Last Action: 3/9/2012 S Died on Calendar, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 517 (Ch. 2012-61), CS/CS/HB 653 (Ch. 2012-64), CS/CS/CS/HB 711 (Ch. 2012-66), CS/CS/CS/HB 943 (Ch. 2012-73), CS/CS/CS/HB 1263 (Ch. 2012-184) Location: On Special Order Calendar
S 1506 (c1)	Health Care	Thrasher	Compare	Last Action: 3/9/2012 S Died in Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations Location: In committee/council (BHA)

Bill Text

Version	Posted	Format
H 261 Filed	10/4/2011 2:15 PM	Web Page | PDF

Committee Amendments

No Committee Amendments Available

Floor Amendments

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Bill Analyses

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Vote History - Committee

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Vote History - Floor

No Vote History Available

Citations - Statutes (10)

Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
463.002	Definitions.	Page 2 (pdf)
463.005	Authority of the board.	Page 3 (pdf)
463.0055	Administration and prescription of topical ocular pharmaceutical agents; committee.	Page 3 (pdf)
463.0057	Optometric faculty certificate.	Page 5 (pdf)
463.006	Licensure and certification by examination.	Page 6 (pdf)
483.035	Clinical laboratories operated by practitioners for exclusive use; licensure and regulation.	Page 6 (pdf)
483.041	Definitions.	Page 7 (pdf)
483.181	Acceptance, collection, identification, and examination of specimens.	Page 7 (pdf)
893.02	Definitions.	Page 8 (pdf)
893.05	Practitioners and persons administering controlled substances in their absence.	Page 8 (pdf)

Citations - Constitution (0)

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Citations - Chapter Law (0)

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