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An act relating to health care practitioners and massage therapy; amending s. 456.026, F.S.; requiring the Department of Health to report specified data; amending s. 456.074, F.S.; authorizing the department to immediately suspend the license of certain health care practitioners and massage establishments in certain circumstances; amending s. 480.033, F.S.; revising and providing definitions; amending s. 480.035, F.S.; revising quorum requirements for the Board of Massage Therapy; amending s. 480.043, F.S.; revising certain rules the board is required to adopt; revising the timeframe in which establishment owners must report specified information to the department; prohibiting sexual activity and certain devices in massage establishments; specifying prohibited conduct by establishment owners and employees; providing requirements for outside windows and signs in massage establishments; providing exceptions; providing employee dress code requirements; requiring establishments to maintain certain employment records in English or Spanish; requiring that specified information be recorded before an employee may provide services or treatment; requiring massage establishments to conspicuously display a photo andLegislature specified information for each employee; requiring that such photos and information be displayed before an employee may provide services or treatment; providing for such requirements in massage establishments within public lodging establishments; requiring massage establishments to maintain customer and patient records for services and treatment provided in the massage establishment in English or Spanish; providing that medical records satisfy certain requirements; requiring massage establishments to maintain such records for a specified timeframe; requiring massage establishments to collect and record specified information; requiring massage establishments to confirm the identification of a customer or patient before providing services or treatment; amending s. 480.0465, F.S.; revising advertising requirements for massage therapists and massage establishments; amending s. 480.0475, F.S.; prohibiting establishments from sheltering or harboring, or being used as sleeping quarters for, any person; amending s. 480.0535, F.S.; requiring Department of Health investigators to request valid government identification from all employees while in a massage establishment; specifying additional documents a person operating a massage establishmentLegislature must immediately present, upon request, to department investigators and law enforcement officers; requiring the department to notify a federal immigration office if specified persons fail to provide valid government identification; amending s. 823.05, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; providing an appropriation; providing an effective date.

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Vicki Lopez (R)*,  Doug Bankson (R),  Robin Bartleman (D),  Tae Edmonds (D),  Alina García (R),  Lauren Melo (R),  Toby Overdorf (R),  Rick Roth (R),  Kevin Steele (R),  Marie Woodson (D), 

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Chapter No. 2024-148 (on 05/07/2024)

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