Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 902
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/25/2026           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Garcia) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 287 and 288
    4  insert:
    5         Section 3. Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (3) of
    6  section 383.14, Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         383.14 Screening for metabolic disorders, other hereditary
    8  and congenital disorders, and environmental risk factors.—
    9         (3) DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH; POWERS AND DUTIES.—The department
   10  shall administer and provide certain services to implement the
   11  provisions of this section and shall:
   12         (i) Create an evidence-based educational pamphlet on the
   13  nutritional needs of preterm infants to be provided to parents
   14  and guardians of infants receiving care in a neonatal intensive
   15  care unit. By January 1, 2027, the department shall make the
   16  pamphlet available electronically to hospitals licensed under
   17  chapter 395 to provide neonatal intensive care services. The
   18  pamphlet must include, but need not be limited to, information
   19  on preterm infants relating to all of the following:
   20         1. The specific nutritional needs of preterm infants;
   21         2. The health risks associated with nutritional deficits
   22  and the potential need for nutritional supplementation;
   23         3. Different nutritional sources for infants, including
   24  maternal breast milk, pasteurized human donor milk, infant
   25  formula, human-milk-derived fortifiers, and bovine-milk-derived
   26  fortifiers and the recommended uses for each type of nutritional
   27  source;
   28         4. The importance of maternal breast milk for meeting the
   29  nutritional and developmental needs of infants, and the
   30  alternative of pasteurized human donor milk if maternal breast
   31  milk is not available;
   32         5. The potential risks associated with the use of infant
   33  formula, including preterm infant formula, as a sole or primary
   34  nutrition source; and
   35         6. Necrotizing enterocolitis, the risk factors for
   36  necrotizing enterocolitis, and the potential for a human-milk
   37  based diet, including maternal and pasteurized donor breast milk
   38  and human-milk-derived infant fortifiers, to reduce the risk of
   39  necrotizing enterocolitis.
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   41  All provisions of this subsection must be coordinated with the
   42  provisions and plans established under this chapter, chapter
   43  411, and Pub. L. No. 99-457.
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   45  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete line 48
   48  and insert:
   49         circumstances; amending s. 383.14, F.S.; requiring the
   50         department to create an evidence-based educational
   51         pamphlet on the nutritional needs of preterm infants
   52         for a specified purpose; requiring the department to
   53         make the pamphlet available electronically to certain
   54         hospitals by a specified date; specifying requirements
   55         for the pamphlet; amending s. 391.308, F.S.; revising