Bill > S1600

Introduced Session

An act relating to interstate mobility; amending s. 455.213, F.S.; providing requirements for the applicable board, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation if there is no board, relating to licensure by reciprocity and by endorsement; defining the term “basis license”; creating s. 455.2135, F.S.; requiring the respective boards of occupations, or the Department of Business and Professional Regulation if there is no board, to allow licensure by endorsement if applicant meets certain criteria; requiring applicants of professions that require fingerprints for criminal history checks to submit such fingerprints before the board or department issues a license by endorsement; requiring the department, and authorizing the board, as applicable, to review the results of the criminal history checks according to specified criteria to determine if the applicants meet the requirements for licensure; requiring that the costs associated with fingerprint processing be borne by the applicant; if fingerprints are submitted through an authorized agency or vendor, requiring such agency or vendor to collect the processing fees and remit them to the Department of Law Enforcement; providing an exception; creating s. 456.0145, F.S.; providing a short title; requiring the applicable health care regulatory boards, or the Department of Health if there is no board, to issue a license or certificate to applicants who meet specified conditions; defining the term “scope of practice”; requiring the department to verify certain information using the National Practitioner Data Bank, as applicable; specifying circumstances under which a person is ineligible for a license; authorizing boards or the department, as applicable, to revoke a license upon a specified finding; requiring boards or the department, as applicable, to issue licenses to qualified applicants within a specified timeframe; authorizing boards or the department, as applicable, to require that applicants successfully complete a jurisprudential examination under certain circumstances; requiring the department to submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; providing requirements for the report; requiring the boards or the department, as applicable, to adopt certain rules within a specified timeframe; amending ss. 457.105, 458.313, 464.009, 464.203, 465.0075, 467.0125, 468.1185, 468.1705, 468.209, 468.213, 468.513, 478.47, 480.041, 484.007, 486.081, 486.107, 490.006, and 491.006, F.S.; revising licensure by endorsement requirements for the practice of acupuncture, medicine, professional or practical nursing, certified nursing, pharmacy, midwifery, speech-language pathology and audiology, nursing home administration, occupational therapy, dietetics and nutrition, electrology, massage therapy, opticianry, physical therapy, physical therapist assistantship, psychology and school psychology, and clinical social work, marriage and family therapy, and mental health counseling, respectively; amending ss. 486.031 and 486.102, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; authorizing the boards or the Department of Health, as applicable, to continue processing applications for licensure by endorsement, as authorized under the Florida Statutes (2023), for a specified timeframe; providing an effective date.

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Jay Collins (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (1)

Chapter No. 2024-274, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 975 (Ch. 2024-243), CS/SB 7016 (Ch. 2024-15) (on 07/01/2024)

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