Bill > S0902

Introduced Session

An act relating to the Department of Health; amending s. 381.986, F.S.; revising the definition of the term “low-THC cannabis”; revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; deleting obsolete language; defining the term “park”; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services; authorizing counties and municipalities to approve a dispensing facility within such distance under certain circumstances; providing that the subsequent establishment of any park, child care facility, early learning facility, or school after the approval of a medical marijuana treatment center’s cultivating, processing, or dispensing facility does not affect the continued operation or location of the approved cultivating, processing, or dispensing facility; exempting cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities approved before a specified date from such distance requirements; creating s. 381.994, F.S.; creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the department; providing the purpose of the program; requiring the program, subject to legislative appropriation, to award grants for certain purposes; specifying entities that are eligible to apply for grants under the program; allowing certain grant proposals to receive preference in the awarding of grants; requiring the department to award grants after consulting with the Rare Disease Advisory Council; specifying the types of applications that may be considered for grant funding; requiring the department to appoint peer review panels to review the scientific merit of grant applications and establish their priority scores; requiring the council to consider the priority scores in determining which proposals are recommended for grant funding under the program; requiring the council and peer review panels to establish and follow certain guidelines when performing their duties under the program; prohibiting members of the council or peer review panels from participating in discussions or decisions if there are certain conflicts of interest; authorizing certain appropriated funds to be carried forward under certain circumstances; amending s. 383.14, F.S.; requiring the department to create an evidence-based educational pamphlet on the nutritional needs of preterm infants for a specified purpose; requiring the department to make the pamphlet available electronically to certain hospitals by a specified date; specifying requirements for the pamphlet; amending s. 391.308, F.S.; revising duties of the department in administering the Early Steps Program; revising provisions related to transitioning children from the Early Steps Program to school district programs; amending s. 391.3081, F.S.; revising provisions relating to the Early Steps Extended Option to conform to changes made by the act; amending s. 456.074, F.S.; requiring the department to issue an emergency order suspending the license of a health care practitioner arrested for committing or attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit murder in this state or another jurisdiction; amending s. 464.0156, F.S.; authorizing a registered nurse to delegate the administration of certain controlled substances to a home health aide for medically fragile children under certain circumstances; amending s. 491.005, F.S.; revising licensure requirements for marriage and family therapists; amending s. 1004.551, F.S.; revising requirements for the micro-credential component of specialized training provided by the University of Florida Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment; providing an effective date.

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Ileana Garcia (R)*, 

Other Sponsors (3)

CS/CS/CS by Rules read 1st time (on 02/26/2026)

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