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State Representative
Karen Gonzalez Pittman
(R) - Florida
Florida House District 065
In Office - Started: 11/08/2022

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Bill Bill Name Summary Progress
H1421 Improving Screening for and Treatment of Blood Clots An act relating to improving screening for and treatment of blood clots; providing a short title; amending s. 385.102, F.S.; revising legislative findings under the Chronic Diseases Act; amending s. 395.1012, F.S.; requiring hospitals with emergency departments to develop and implement policies and procedures and conduct training for the rendering of appropriate medical attention for persons at risk of forming venous thromboembolisms; creating s. 395.3042, F.S., requiring the Department of Health to contract with a private entity to establish a statewide venous thromboembolism registry at no cost to the state; providing requirements for the private entity; requiring hospitals with an emergency department, beginning on a date certain, to regularly report certain information; requiring the department to require the private entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect certain data; requiring the private entity to provide regular reports to the department on such data; requiring the agency, by a date certain, to provide to the Governor and the Legislature a specified report; providing requirements for such report; providing applicability; amending s. 400.211, F.S.; revising requirements for certain hb1421 -04-erCS/2025 Legislature annual inservice training for certified nursing assistants employed by nursing home facilities; revising training requirements for certain certified nursing assistants who may be delegated tasks in nursing home facilities; amending s. 429.55, F.S.; providing legislative findings; defining terms; requiring assisted living facilities to provide a consumer information pamphlet containing specified information to residents; providing an effective date. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
H1341 Health Care Practitioner Identification An act relating to health care practitioner identification; amending s. 456.003, F.S.; revising legislative findings; creating s. 456.65, F.S.; prohibiting the use of specified titles and designations by health care practitioners not licensed as physicians or osteopathic physicians, as applicable, with an exception; providing that the use of such titles and designations constitutes the unlicensed practice of medicine or osteopathic medicine, as applicable; authorizing the department to pursue specified remedies for such violations; authorizing health care practitioners to use names and titles, and their corresponding designations and initials, authorized by their respective practice acts; specifying the manner in which health care practitioners may represent their specialty practice areas; specifying titles and abbreviations certain health care practitioners may use; providing construction; amending ss. 458.3312 and 459.0152, F.S.; specifying specialist titles and designations that physicians and osteopathic physicians, respectively, are prohibited from using unless they have received formal recognition by the appropriate recognizing agency for such specialty certifications; authorizing the Board of Medicine and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine, as applicable, to adopt certain rules; amending s. 641.51, F.S.; revising written notification requirements for adverse determinations made by a health maintenance organization; providing an effective date. Dead
H0681 Apprenticeship and Preapprenticeship Program Funding An act relating to apprenticeship and preapprenticeship program funding; amending s. 446.032, F.S.; revising requirements for the uniform minimum standards and policies governing apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs and agreements to include requirements for partnerships between local educational agencies and apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; revising the required date for a specified report on apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; revising the requirements for such report; requiring the Department of Education to develop a standard model contract template for local educational agencies and apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs; providing requirements for such template; providing requirements for local educational agencies and apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs that enter into partnership agreements; requiring the department to develop an apprenticeship funding transparency tool by a specified date; providing requirements for such tool; amending s. 1011.80, F.S.; providing requirements for District Workforce Education Funding Steering Committee meetings; providing requirements for certain workpapers; authorizing such meetings to be held using hb681 -01-erLegislature communications media technology; defining the term "communications media technology"; requiring a specified funding model to be provided to the Legislature annually within a specified timeframe; providing an effective date. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
H0899 Insurer Disclosures on Prescription Drug Coverage An act relating to insurer disclosures on prescription drug coverage; creating s. 627.42394, F.S.; requiring individual and group health insurers to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes within a certain timeframe to current and prospective insureds and the insureds' treating physicians; specifying requirements for the content of such notice and the manner in which it must be provided; specifying requirements for a notice of medical necessity submitted by the treating physician; authorizing insurers to provide certain means for submitting the notice of medical necessity; requiring the Financial Services Commission to adopt a certain form by rule by a specified date; specifying a coverage requirement and restrictions on coverage modification by insurers receiving a notice of medical necessity; providing construction and applicability; requiring insurers to maintain a record of formulary changes; requiring insurers to annually submit a specified report to the Office of Insurance Regulation by a specified date; requiring the office to annually compile certain data and prepare a report, make the report publicly accessible on its website, and submit the report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; hb899-00 creating s. 627.6383, F.S.; defining the term "cost- sharing requirement"; requiring specified individual health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments for prescription drugs by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds' cost-sharing requirements under certain circumstances; providing construction; requiring specified individual health insurers to maintain records of certain third-party payments for prescription drugs; providing reporting requirements; providing requirements for the reports; providing applicability; amending s. 627.6385, F.S.; providing disclosure requirements; providing applicability; amending s. 627.64741, F.S.; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds' total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; providing applicability; providing disclosure requirements; creating s. 627.65715, F.S.; defining the term "cost-sharing requirement"; requiring specified group health insurers and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments for prescription drugs by or on behalf of insureds toward the total contributions of the insureds' cost-sharing requirements under certain circumstances; providing hb899-00 construction; providing disclosure requirements; requiring specified group health insurers to maintain records of certain third-party payments for prescription drugs; providing reporting requirements; providing requirements for the reports; providing applicability; amending s. 627.6572, F.S.; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of insureds toward the insureds' total contributions to cost- sharing requirements; providing applicability; providing disclosure requirements; amending s. 627.6699, F.S.; requiring small employer carriers to comply with certain requirements for prescription drug formulary changes; amending s. 641.31, F.S.; providing an exception to requirements relating to changes in a health maintenance organization's group contract; requiring health maintenance organizations to provide notice of prescription drug formulary changes within a certain timeframe to current and prospective subscribers and the subscribers' treating physicians; specifying requirements for the content of such notice and the manner in which it must be provided; specifying requirements for a notice of medical necessity submitted by the treating physician; authorizing health maintenance organizations to hb899-00 provide certain means for submitting the notice of medical necessity; requiring the commission to adopt a certain form by rule by a specified date; specifying a coverage requirement and restrictions on coverage modification by health maintenance organizations receiving a notice of medical necessity; providing construction and applicability; requiring health maintenance organizations to maintain a record of formulary changes; requiring health maintenance organizations to annually submit a specified report to the office by a specified date; requiring the office to annually compile certain data and prepare a report, make the report publicly accessible on its website, and submit the report to the Governor and the Legislature by a specified date; defining the term "cost-sharing requirement"; requiring specified health maintenance organizations and their pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments for prescription drugs by or on behalf of subscribers toward the total contributions of the subscribers' cost-sharing requirements under certain circumstances; providing construction; providing disclosure requirements; requiring specified health maintenance organizations to maintain records of certain third-party payments for prescription drugs; providing reporting hb899-00 requirements; providing requirements for the reports; providing applicability; amending s. 641.314, F.S.; requiring specified contracts to require pharmacy benefit managers to apply payments by or on behalf of subscribers toward the subscribers' total contributions to cost-sharing requirements; providing applicability; providing disclosure requirements; amending s. 409.967, F.S.; conforming a cross- reference; amending s. 641.185, F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the act; providing applicability; providing a declaration of important state interest; providing an effective date. Dead
H0641 Food Additives An act relating to food additives; creating s. 500.181, F.S.; requiring food and drink products intended for human consumption that contain synthetic dyes to have a certain warning on the products' packaging; providing penalties; providing for the deposit of penalty proceeds; requiring the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to conduct certain inspections; providing an effective date. Dead
H0721 Step-therapy Protocols An act relating to step-therapy protocols; amending s. 409.901, F.S.; defining the term "serious mental illness"; amending s. 409.912, F.S.; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to approve drug products for Medicaid recipients for the treatment of serious mental illness without step-therapy prior authorization under certain circumstances; amending s. 409.910, F.S.; conforming a cross-reference; directing the agency to include rate impacts resulting from the act in certain rates that become effective on a specified date; providing effective dates. Dead
H1093 Coverage of Prescription Drugs for Pain An act relating to coverage of prescription drugs for pain; creating ss. 409.9064 and 409.9746, F.S.; defining the term "nonopioid pain drug"; requiring the Medicaid program and Medicaid managed care plans, respectively, to provide coverage such that nonopioid pain drugs are not disadvantaged or otherwise discouraged relative to any opioid or narcotic drug for pain management or treatment; specifying prohibited practices in relation to such coverage; providing an effective date. Dead
H1335 Biomarker Testing An act relating to biomarker testing; amending s. 409.906, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "biomarker testing"; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to establish a provider reimbursement schedule and billing codes for a specified medical services and procedures coding to cover biomarker testing; authorizing Medicaid program coverage of certain colorectal cancer tests; amending s. 409.9745, F.S.; requiring Medicaid managed care plans to cover certain colorectal cancer tests at a certain level; requiring the agency to contract for a cost-benefit analysis; providing requirements for the analysis; providing reporting requirements; providing for future repeal; providing an effective date. Dead
H0439 K-12 Instructional Personnel Salary Compression An act relating to the K-12 instructional personnel salary compression; amending s. 1011.62, F.S.; requiring school district and charter school salary distribution plans to address salary compression; requiring such plans to address salary compression for specified instructional personnel; providing an effective date. Dead
H0355 Emergency Opioid Antagonists in Public K-12 Schools and Postsecondary Educational Institutions An act relating to the emergency opioid antagonists in public K-12 schools and postsecondary educational institutions; amending s. 1002.20, F.S.; authorizing public schools to purchase, use, and maintain a supply of emergency opioid antagonists that meet specified criteria, rather than only naloxone; amending s. 1004.0971, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "emergency opioid antagonist"; providing an effective date. Dead
H1091 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care An act relating to substance abuse and mental health care; amending s. 394.4573, F.S.; expanding mental health crisis services to include the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center; amending s. 394.4598, F.S.; authorizing a guardian advocate to be discharged when a patient is discharged from involuntary outpatient services; amending s. 394.4625, F.S.; requiring clinical psychologists who make determinations of involuntary placement at certain mental health facilities to have specified clinical experience; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; authorizing a designated facility to retain a patient for the remainder of a specified timeframe under certain circumstances; amending s. 394.4655, F.S.; providing specified criteria relating to orders to involuntary outpatient placement; amending s. 394.467, F.S.; revising the definition of the term "court"; providing that orders entered by an administrative law judge for continued involuntary placement for patients at certain mental health facilities are final and subject to judicial review; requiring a patient to be represented by the public defender of the circuit in which the patient is receiving services at hearings for continued involuntary services under certain hb1091 -03-er2025 Legislature circumstances; requiring the court or the administrative law judge to make certain determinations before waiving a patient's attendance at a hearing for continued involuntary placement; authorizing an administrative law judge to issue an order for involuntary services if the patient meets certain criteria; amending s. 394.67, F.S.; revising the definition of "crisis services" to include a 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center and defining the term "988 suicide and crisis lifeline call center"; creating s. 394.9088, F.S.; requiring the Department of Children and Families to authorize and provide oversight of the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline call centers and adopt specified rules; amending s. 397.427, F.S.; removing requirements relating to providers of medication-assisted treatment services for opiate addiction; amending s. 916.111, F.S.; revising training requirements for mental health professionals; amending s. 916.115, F.S.; requiring court appointed experts to have completed specified training and continued education; amending s. 916.12, F.S.; providing requirements for an expert to determine acceptable treatments available in a community; amending ss. 394.674, 397.68141, and 394.74, F.S.; conforming cross-references; providing hb1091 -03-er2025 Legislature an effective date. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
H0251 Holocaust Remembrance Day An act relating to Holocaust Remembrance Day; creating s. 683.196, F.S.; requiring the Governor to proclaim a specified day annually as "Holocaust Remembrance Day"; authorizing "Holocaust Remembrance Day" to be observed in this state's public schools and be observed by public exercise as the Governor may designate; providing construction; authorizing specified instruction; providing an effective date. Dead
H0559 Designation of the Official State Flagship An act relating to the designation of the official state flagship; amending s. 15.0465, F.S.; redesignating the official state flagship as the S.S. American Victory; providing an effective date. Dead
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Vote
S7022 Retirement House: Third Reading RCS#437 06/16/2025 Yea
S2500 Appropriations House: Third Reading RCS#443 06/16/2025 Yea
S2506 Natural Resources House: Third Reading RCS#441 06/16/2025 Yea
S2502 Implementing the 2025-2026 General Appropriations Act House: Third Reading RCS#435 06/16/2025 Yea
S2504 Collective Bargaining House: Third Reading RCS#436 06/16/2025 Yea
S2514 Health and Human Services House: Third Reading RCS#438 06/16/2025 Yea
S2510 Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education House: Third Reading RCS#440 06/16/2025 Yea
S2508 Judges House: Third Reading RCS#439 06/16/2025 Yea
H7031 Taxation House: Third Reading RCS#432 06/16/2025 Yea
H5015 State Group Insurance House: Third Reading RCS#434 06/16/2025 Yea
H5019 Budget Stabilization Fund House: Third Reading RCS#431 06/16/2025 Yea
H5017 Debt Reduction House: Third Reading RCS#433 06/16/2025 Yea
S2510 Prekindergarten Through Grade 12 Education House: Third Reading RCS#428 05/13/2025 Yea
S0248 Student Participation in Interscholastic and Intrascholastic Extracurricular Sports House: Third Reading RCS#419 05/02/2025 Yea
H0289 Boating Safety House: Third Reading RCS#426 05/02/2025 Yea
S0116 Veterans House: Third Reading RCS#420 05/02/2025 Yea
S0768 Foreign Countries of Concern House: Third Reading RCS#407 05/02/2025 Yea
H0711 Spectrum Alert House: Third Reading RCS#421 05/02/2025 Yea
H0875 Educator Preparation House: Third Reading RCS#408 05/02/2025 Yea
S0168 Mental Health House: Third Reading RCS#417 05/02/2025 Yea
H1115 Education House: Third Reading RCS#413 05/02/2025 Yea
H1105 Education House: Third Reading RCS#415 05/02/2025 Yea
H1101 Out-of-network Providers House: Third Reading RCS#409 05/02/2025 Nay
H1255 Education House: Third Reading RCS#414 05/02/2025 Yea
H1299 Department of Health House: Third Reading RCS#405 05/02/2025 Yea
S7012 Child Welfare House: Third Reading RCS#418 05/02/2025 Yea
S0180 Emergencies House: Third Reading RCS#411 05/02/2025 Yea
H1427 Nursing Education Programs House: Third Reading RCS#416 05/02/2025 Yea
H1445 Public Officers and Employees House: Third Reading RCS#422 05/02/2025 Yea
H1549 Financial Services House: Third Reading RCS#406 05/02/2025 Yea
H0209 State Land Management House: Third Reading RCS#394 05/01/2025 Yea
H0255 Aggravated Animal Cruelty House: Third Reading RCS#400 05/01/2025 Yea
H0289 Boating Safety House: Third Reading RCS#397 05/01/2025 Yea
H0393 My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program House: Third Reading RCS#398 05/01/2025 Yea
H0443 Education House: Third Reading RCS#393 05/01/2025 Yea
H0711 Spectrum Alert House: Third Reading RCS#395 05/01/2025 Yea
H1103 Services for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities House: Third Reading RCS#391 05/01/2025 Yea
H1205 Amendments to the State Constitution House: Third Reading RCS#403 05/01/2025 Yea
H1205 Amendments to the State Constitution House: Third Reading RCS#402 05/01/2025 Nay
S1730 Affordable Housing House: Third Reading RCS#392 05/01/2025 Abstain
H1609 Waste Incineration House: Third Reading RCS#401 05/01/2025 Yea
S0010 Relief of Sidney Holmes by the State of Florida House: Third Reading RCS#385 04/30/2025 Yea
S0026 Relief of Kristen and Lia McIntosh by the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services House: Third Reading RCS#384 04/30/2025 Yea
S0056 Geoengineering and Weather Modification Activities House: Third Reading RCS#388 04/30/2025 Yea
S0068 Health Facilities House: Third Reading RCS#350 04/30/2025 Yea
H0011 Municipal Water and Sewer Utility Rates House: Third Reading RCS#364 04/30/2025 Yea
S0184 Housing House: Third Reading RCS#347 04/30/2025 Yea
S0312 Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Inc. House: Third Reading RCS#386 04/30/2025 Yea
S0384 Annexing State-owned Lands House: Third Reading RCS#346 04/30/2025 Yea
S0388 Trust Funds for Wildlife Management House: Third Reading RCS#343 04/30/2025 Yea
S0492 Mitigation Banks House: Third Reading RCS#342 04/30/2025 Yea
S0116 Veterans House: Third Reading RCS#361 04/30/2025 Yea
S0112 Children with Developmental Disabilities House: Third Reading RCS#382 04/30/2025 Yea
S7002 Water Management Districts House: Third Reading RCS#380 04/30/2025 Yea
S0606 Public Lodging and Public Food Service Establishments House: Third Reading RCS#348 04/30/2025 Yea
H0593 Dangerous Dogs House: Third Reading RCS#366 04/30/2025 Yea
S0738 Child Care and Early Learning Providers House: Third Reading RCS#355 04/30/2025 Yea
S0164 Vessel Accountability House: Third Reading RCS#363 04/30/2025 Yea
H0687 Driving and Boating Offenses House: Third Reading RCS#378 04/30/2025 Yea
S0830 Disposition of Migrant Vessels House: Third Reading RCS#362 04/30/2025 Yea
S0892 Florida State University Election Law Center House: Third Reading RCS#387 04/30/2025 Yea
H0777 Offenses Involving Children House: Third Reading RCS#370 04/30/2025 Abstain
S0954 Certified Recovery Residences House: Third Reading RCS#349 04/30/2025 Yea
H0913 Condominium and Cooperative Associations House: Third Reading RCS#377 04/30/2025 Yea
S1070 Electrocardiograms for Student Athletes House: Third Reading RCS#357 04/30/2025 Yea
H0999 Legal Tender House: Third Reading RCS#374 04/30/2025 Yea
S1080 Local Government Land Regulation House: Third Reading RCS#345 04/30/2025 Yea
H0987 Transportation Facility Designations House: Third Reading RCS#375 04/30/2025 Yea
S0168 Mental Health House: Third Reading RCS#383 04/30/2025 Yea
S1156 Home Health Aide for Medically Fragile Children Program House: Third Reading RCS#354 04/30/2025 Yea
H1049 Tampering with, Harassing, or Retaliating against Court Officials House: Third Reading RCS#369 04/30/2025 Yea
H1091 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Care House: Third Reading RCS#371 04/30/2025 Yea
H1143 Permits for Drilling, Exploration, and Extraction of Oil and Gas Resources House: Third Reading RCS#365 04/30/2025 Yea
S1386 Assault or Battery on a Utility Worker House: Third Reading RCS#360 04/30/2025 Yea
S1388 Vessels House: Third Reading RCS#389 04/30/2025 Yea
H1237 Human Trafficking Awareness House: Third Reading RCS#368 04/30/2025 Yea
S1470 School Safety House: Third Reading RCS#358 04/30/2025 Yea
S1490 Children's Medical Services Program House: Third Reading RCS#353 04/30/2025 Yea
S1514 Anaphylaxis in Public and Charter Schools House: Third Reading RCS#356 04/30/2025 Yea
S7012 Child Welfare House: Third Reading RCS#381 04/30/2025 Yea
S1574 Energy Infrastructure Investment House: Third Reading RCS#344 04/30/2025 Yea
S1804 Capital Human Trafficking of Vulnerable Persons for Sexual Exploitation House: Third Reading RCS#359 04/30/2025 Yea
S1768 Stem Cell Therapy House: Third Reading RCS#351 04/30/2025 Yea
H1447 Trespass House: Third Reading RCS#367 04/30/2025 Yea
S1808 Refund of Overpayments Made by Patients House: Third Reading RCS#352 04/30/2025 Yea
H1545 Parkinson's Disease House: Third Reading RCS#372 04/30/2025 Yea
H1567 Insulin Administration by Direct Support Professionals and Relatives House: Third Reading RCS#373 04/30/2025 Yea
H1607 Cardiac Emergencies House: Third Reading RCS#376 04/30/2025 Yea
S0028 Relief of Darline Angervil and J.R. by the South Broward Hospital District House: Third Reading RCS#329 04/29/2025 Yea
S0022 Relief of Eric Miles, Jr., and Jennifer Miles by the South Broward Hospital District House: Third Reading RCS#332 04/29/2025 Yea
S0008 Relief of Marcus Button by the Pasco County School Board House: Third Reading RCS#328 04/29/2025 Yea
S0020 Relief of J.N., a Minor, by Hillsborough County House: Third Reading RCS#331 04/29/2025 Yea
S0014 Relief of the Estate of Peniel Janvier by the City of Miami Beach House: Third Reading RCS#330 04/29/2025 Yea
S0106 Exploitation of Vulnerable Adults House: Third Reading RCS#300 04/29/2025 Yea
S0118 Regulation of Presidential Libraries House: Third Reading RCS#325 04/29/2025 Yea
S0130 Compensation of Victims of Wrongful Incarceration House: Third Reading RCS#327 04/29/2025 Yea
S0150 Abandoning Restrained Dogs During Natural Disasters House: Third Reading RCS#326 04/29/2025 Yea
S0158 Coverage for Diagnostic and Supplemental Breast Examinations House: Third Reading RCS#289 04/29/2025 Yea
S0232 Debt Collection House: Third Reading RCS#297 04/29/2025 Yea
S0234 Criminal Offenses Against Law Enforcement Officers and Other Personnel House: Third Reading RCS#322 04/29/2025 Yea
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Detail Florida House Property Taxes Select Committee 16
Detail Florida House State Affairs Committee 15
State District Chamber Party Status Start Date End Date
FL Florida House District 065 House Republican In Office 11/08/2022