Florida Senate - 2025 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1602 Ì722464,Î722464 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 04/02/2025 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— 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,andresponding 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;