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Introduced
10/10/2025
10/10/2025
In Committee
10/21/2025
10/21/2025
Crossed Over
Passed
Dead
Introduced Session
2026 Regular Session
Bill Summary
An act relating to protection from surgical smoke; creating s. 395.1013, F.S.; defining the terms “smoke evacuation system” and “surgical smoke”; requiring hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, by a specified date, to adopt and implement policies to prevent patients and personnel from being exposed to harmful surgical smoke; providing an effective date.
AI Summary
This bill, titled "Protection from Surgical Smoke," mandates that by January 1, 2027, all licensed hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers in Florida must establish and follow policies to protect patients and healthcare personnel from exposure to surgical smoke, which is defined as the harmful gaseous byproduct created by energy-generating surgical devices like lasers and electrosurgical tools, and can include things like surgical plume and lung-damaging dust. To achieve this, these facilities will be required to use a smoke evacuation system, defined as equipment that captures and filters this smoke before it can affect the eyes or respiratory systems of people in the operating room, or implement any other appropriate measure during surgical procedures that are likely to produce such smoke, with the bill taking effect on July 1, 2026.
Committee Categories
Budget and Finance
Sponsors (1)
Other Sponsors (1)
Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Senate)
Last Action
CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time (on 03/03/2026)
Official Document
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| Document Type | Source Location |
|---|---|
| State Bill Page | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162 |
| BillText | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/BillText/c1/HTML |
| Analysis - Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Post-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/Analyses/2026s00162.ahs.PDF |
| https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/Amendment/771398/HTML | |
| Analysis - Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services (Pre-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/Analyses/2026s00162.pre.ahs.PDF |
| Analysis - Health Policy (Post-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/Analyses/2026s00162.hp.PDF |
| Analysis - Health Policy (Pre-Meeting) | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/Analyses/2026s00162.pre.hp.PDF |
| BillText | https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/162/BillText/Filed/HTML |
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