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CS/CS/SB 170: Quality of Care in Nursing Homes

GENERAL BILL by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services ; Health Policy ; Burton

Quality of Care in Nursing Homes; Reviving, reenacting, and amending a provision relating to consumer satisfaction surveys; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop user-friendly consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home facilities; requiring medical directors of nursing home facilities to obtain, or to be in the process of obtaining, certain qualifications by a specified date; requiring nursing home facilities to conduct biennial patient safety culture surveys; requiring nursing home facilities that maintain certain electronic health records to make available certain data to the agency’s Florida Health Information Exchange program for a specified purpose; exempting nursing homes operated by state agencies from certain financial reporting requirements, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2025
 Last Action: 3/28/2025 Senate - On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Health Policy (HP)
  2. Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (AHS)
  3. Appropriations (AP)


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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/25/2025 Senate • Filed
• Referred to Health Policy; Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; Appropriations
2/27/2025 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Health Policy, 03/04/25, 2:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
3/4/2025 Senate • CS by Health Policy; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
• Introduced
3/5/2025 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Now in Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
3/10/2025 Senate • CS by Health Policy read 1st time
3/21/2025 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, 03/26/25, 1:00 pm, 412 Knott Building
3/26/2025 Senate • CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; YEAS 10 NAYS 0
3/28/2025 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
• Now in Appropriations
• On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/02/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building