Bill > S0170

Introduced Session

An act relating to the quality of care in nursing homes; reviving, reenacting, and amending s. 400.0225, F.S., relating to consumer satisfaction surveys; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop user-friendly consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home facilities; specifying requirements for the surveys; authorizing family members, guardians, and other resident designees to assist the resident in completing the survey; prohibiting employees and volunteers of the facility or of a corporation or business entity with an ownership interest in the facility from attempting to influence a resident’s responses to the survey; requiring the agency to specify certain protocols for administration of the survey; requiring the agency to publish on its website aggregated survey data in a manner that allows for comparison between nursing home facilities; amending s. 400.141, F.S.; requiring medical directors of nursing home facilities to obtain, or to be in the process of obtaining, certain qualifications by a specified date; requiring the agency to include such medical director’s name on each nursing home facility’s online provider profile; requiring nursing home facilities to conduct biennial patient safety culture surveys; specifying requirements for administration of such surveys; requiring nursing home facilities to submit the results of such surveys biennially to the agency in a format specified by agency rule; authorizing nursing home facilities to develop an internal action plan between surveys to identify measures for improvement of the survey and submit such plan to the agency; amending s. 400.191, F.S.; requiring the agency to include the results from specified consumer satisfaction surveys as part of the Nursing Home Guide on its website; amending s. 408.051, F.S.; 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; authorizing the agency to adopt rules; amending s. 408.061, F.S.; exempting nursing homes operated by state agencies from certain financial reporting requirements; requiring the agency to impose administrative fines against nursing homes and home offices of nursing homes for failing to comply with certain reporting requirements; defining the term “violation”; providing construction; requiring the agency to adopt rules; providing requirements for such rules; amending s. 408.08, F.S.; prohibiting nursing homes subject to certain administrative fines from being fined under a specified provision for the same violation; amending s. 409.908, F.S.; requiring the agency to revise its methodology for calculating Quality Incentive Program payments; providing requirements for such revision; requiring the agency to submit an annual report to the Governor and the Legislature on payments made under the Quality Incentive Program; specifying requirements for the report; requiring the agency to contract with a third party vendor to conduct a comprehensive study of nursing home quality incentive programs in other states; providing minimum requirements for the report; requiring the agency to submit a final report on the study to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; providing an effective date.

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Colleen Burton (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (2)

Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199), SB 2514 (Ch. 2025-204) (on 06/16/2025)

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