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SB 998: Enhancing Patient Care Continuums

GENERAL BILL by Rodriguez ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Garcia

Enhancing Patient Care Continuums; Providing that patients have a right to expect their health care records to be shared between their health care providers; revising the purpose and functions of the Office of Rural Health; requiring rural health networks to use health information exchange systems for specified purposes; revising criteria for Department of Health approval of certain cooperative agreements in certified rural health networks; requiring hospitals to use health information exchange systems to provide certain notification to a patient’s primary care provider, if any, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2022
 Last Action: 3/14/2022 Senate - Died in Health Policy
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  3. Appropriations (AP)

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  • Bill History

    Date Chamber Action
    11/18/2021 Senate • Filed
    12/13/2021 Senate • Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations -SJ 67
    1/11/2022 Senate • Introduced -SJ 67
    3/12/2022 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
    3/14/2022 Senate • Died in Health Policy

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  • SB 998, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 11/18/2021 at 3:19 PM

    Bill Text:   Web Page | PDF
    Analyses:   None

    Citations - Statutes (12)

    Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
    381.026 Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. Page 4 (pdf)
    381.0405 Office of Rural Health. Page 11 (pdf)
    381.0406 Rural health networks. Page 12 (pdf)
    381.04065 Rural health network cooperative agreements. Page 13 (pdf)
    381.4018 Physician workforce assessment and development. Page 23 (pdf)
    395.1052 Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification. Page 14 (pdf)
    395.3015 Patient records; form and content. Page 15 (pdf)
    408.05 Florida Center for Health Information and Transparency. Page 15 (pdf)
    408.051 Florida Electronic Health Records Exchange Act. Page 16 (pdf)
    408.0611 Electronic prescribing clearinghouse. Page 22 (pdf)
    456.057 Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information. Page 22 (pdf)
    456.42 Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs. Page 25 (pdf)

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