Florida Senate - 2026                                    SB 1526
       
       
        
       By Senator Rodriguez
       
       
       
       
       
       40-01618-26                                           20261526__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to safety design standards for office
    3         surgery suites; creating s. 395.3045, F.S.; requiring
    4         the Florida Building Commission and the State Fire
    5         Marshal, within their respective codes, to establish
    6         safety design standards for certain office surgery
    7         suites by a specified date; defining the term “office
    8         surgery suite”; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 395.3045, Florida Statutes, is created
   13  to read:
   14         395.3045 Office surgery suites; safety design standards.—
   15         (1) By October 1, 2026, the Florida Building Commission
   16  shall establish within the Florida Building Code, and the State
   17  Fire Marshal shall establish within the Florida Fire Prevention
   18  Code, safety design standards that allow office surgery suites
   19  to provide the following services or treatments simultaneously
   20  for up to six patients on an outpatient basis:
   21         (a) Treatment for patients which renders the patients
   22  incapable of taking action for self-preservation under emergency
   23  conditions without the assistance of others.
   24         (b) Anesthesia that renders the patients incapable of
   25  taking action for self-preservation under emergency conditions
   26  without the assistance of others.
   27         (c) Treatment for patients who, due to the nature of their
   28  injury or illness, are incapable of taking action for self
   29  preservation under emergency conditions without the assistance
   30  of others.
   31         (2) The safety design standards established under
   32  subsection (1) must be an alternative to the safety design
   33  standards for ambulatory health care occupancies. For purposes
   34  of this subsection, the term “office surgery suite” means that
   35  portion of a physician’s office where surgery is performed.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.