Bill > S1140

Introduced Session

An act relating to patient access to records; amending s. 394.4615, F.S.; requiring mental health service providers to furnish clinical records in accordance with specified requirements and within a specified timeframe after receiving a written request for such records; providing construction; amending s. 395.3025, F.S.; revising provisions related to the release of patient records by hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to conform to changes made by the act; requiring such providers to furnish patient records in accordance with specified requirements and within a specified timeframe after receiving a written request; providing construction; establishing that the Department of Health, rather than the Agency for Health Care Administration, has the authority to issue subpoenas for patient records from hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers in certain circumstances; amending s. 397.501, F.S.; requiring substance abuse service providers to furnish clinical records in accordance with specified requirements and within a specified timeframe after receiving a written request; providing construction; amending s. 400.145, F.S.; revising the timeframe within which a nursing home facility must provide access to, and copies of, resident records after receiving a request for such records; creating s. 408.833, F.S.; defining terms; requiring licensed providers to furnish and provide access to client records within specified timeframes after receiving a written request from a client or the client’s legal representative; requiring providers to furnish the client’s protected health information in the form and format chosen by the requester, if readily producible, or, if not readily producible, in another mutually agreeable readable form; providing exceptions for providers governed by other specified provisions; amending s. 456.057, F.S.; defining the terms “designated record set” and “legal representative”; requiring health care practitioners to furnish and provide access to patient records within specified timeframes after receiving a written request from a patient or the patient’s legal representative; requiring health care practitioners to furnish records in the form and format chosen by the requester, if readily producible, or, if not readily producible, in another mutually agreeable readable form; amending ss. 316.1932, 316.1933, 395.4025, 397.702, 429.294, 440.185, and 456.47, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; providing an effective date.

AI Summary

Erin Grall (R)*, 

Introduced (on 01/13/2026)

Official Document