Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1602
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/02/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Harrell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 55 - 110
    4  and insert:
    5  Readiness Project.
    6         (6)Each hospital with an emergency department may conduct
    7  the National Pediatric Readiness Project’s Open Assessment
    8  during a year in which the National Pediatric Readiness
    9  Assessment is not conducted.
   10         Section 2. Present subsections (4) through (19) of section
   11  395.1055, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (5)
   12  through (20), respectively, a new subsection (4) is added to
   13  that section, and paragraph (c) of subsection (1) is amended, to
   14  read:
   15         395.1055 Rules and enforcement.—
   16         (1) The agency shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1)
   17  and 120.54 to implement the provisions of this part, which shall
   18  include reasonable and fair minimum standards for ensuring that:
   19         (c) A comprehensive emergency management plan is prepared
   20  and updated annually. Such standards must be included in the
   21  rules adopted by the agency after consulting with the Division
   22  of Emergency Management. At a minimum, the rules must provide
   23  for plan components that address emergency evacuation
   24  transportation; adequate sheltering arrangements; postdisaster
   25  activities, including emergency power, food, and water;
   26  postdisaster transportation; supplies; staffing; emergency
   27  equipment; individual identification of residents and transfer
   28  of records, and responding to family inquiries, and the needs of
   29  pediatric and neonatal patients. The comprehensive emergency
   30  management plan is subject to review and approval by the local
   31  emergency management agency. During its review, the local
   32  emergency management agency shall ensure that the following
   33  agencies, at a minimum, are given the opportunity to review the
   34  plan: the Department of Elderly Affairs, the Department of
   35  Health, the Agency for Health Care Administration, and the
   36  Division of Emergency Management. Also, appropriate volunteer
   37  organizations must be given the opportunity to review the plan.
   38  The local emergency management agency shall complete its review
   39  within 60 days and either approve the plan or advise the
   40  facility of necessary revisions.
   41         (4)The agency, in consultation with the Florida Emergency
   42  Medical Services for Children State Partnership Program, shall
   43  adopt rules that establish minimum standards for pediatric
   44  patient care in hospital emergency departments, including, but
   45  not limited to, availability and immediate access to pediatric
   46  specific equipment and supplies.
   47         Section 3. Paragraph (n) is added to subsection (3) of
   48  section 408.05, Florida Statutes, to read:
   49         408.05 Florida Center for Health Information and
   50  Transparency.—
   51         (3) HEALTH INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY.—In order to
   52  disseminate and facilitate the availability of comparable and
   53  uniform health information, the agency shall perform the
   54  following functions:
   55         (n)1.Collect the overall assessment score of National
   56  Pediatric Readiness Assessments conducted by hospital emergency
   57  departments pursuant to s. 395.1012(5), from the Florida
   58  Emergency Medical Services for Children State Partnership
   59  Program by December 31, 2026, and by each December 31 during a
   60  year in which the National Pediatric Readiness Assessment is
   61  conducted thereafter.
   62         2.By April 1, 2027, and each April 1 following a year in
   63  which the National Pediatric Readiness Assessment is conducted
   64  thereafter, publish the overall assessment score for each
   65  hospital emergency department, and provide a comparison to the
   66  national average score when it becomes available.
   67         3.Collect and publish no more than one overall assessment
   68  score per hospital, per year, of assessments conducted pursuant
   69  to s. 395.1012(6), and provide a comparison to the hospital
   70  emergency department’s most recently published score pursuant to
   71  subparagraph 2.
   72  
   73  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   74  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   75         Delete line 24
   76  and insert:
   77         Section 1. Subsections (5) and (6) are added to section
   78  395.1012,
   79  
   80  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   81  And the title is amended as follows:
   82         Delete lines 8 - 19
   83  and insert:
   84         assessments; authorizing a hospital with an emergency
   85         department to conduct the National Pediatric Readiness
   86         Project’s Open Assessment under certain circumstances;
   87         amending s. 395.1055, F.S.; requiring the Agency for
   88         Health Care Administration to adopt certain rules for
   89         comprehensive emergency management plans; requiring
   90         the agency, in consultation with the Florida Emergency
   91         Medical Services for Children State Partnership
   92         Program, to establish minimum standards for pediatric
   93         patient care in hospital emergency departments;
   94         amending s. 408.05, F.S.; requiring the agency to
   95         collect and publish the results of specified
   96         assessments submitted by hospitals by specified dates;
   97         providing requirements for the collection and
   98         publication of the hospitals’ assessment scores;