Florida Statutes Title XXIX Chapter 381 - Public Health: General Provisions

• 381.001 - Public Health System.
  The Department of Health is responsible for the state’s public health system which shall be designed to promote, protect, and improve the health of...
• 381.0011 - Duties And Powers Of The Department Of Health.
  It is the duty of the Department of Health to:(1) Assess the public health status and needs of the state.(2) Administer and enforce laws and rules relating...
• 381.0012 - Enforcement Authority.
  (1) The department may commence and maintain all proper and necessary actions and proceedings to enforce the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter and may defend...
• 381.0016 - County And Municipal Regulations And Ordinances.
  Any county or municipality may enact, in a manner prescribed by law, health regulations and ordinances not inconsistent with state public health laws and rules...
• 381.0018 - Application For And Acceptance Of Gifts Or Grants.
  The department may apply for and accept any funds, grants, gifts, or services made available to it by any agency or department of the Federal...
• 381.0019 - Disposition Of Equipment And Material; Transfers To County Health Departments.
  When the department purchases equipment and materials in furtherance of its public health programs from state or federal or state and federal funds for primary...
• 381.002 - Grant Of Title To Prescriptive Medical Personal Property To Client.
  Legal title to prescriptive medical personal property purchased by the department for the use or benefit of a particular client of the department may, pursuant...
• 381.0021 - Client Welfare Accounts.
  The Department of Health may establish one or more client welfare accounts in any bank, savings and loan association, or credit union. If one account...
• 381.0022 - Sharing Confidential Or Exempt Information.
  (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Families may share confidential information or...
• 381.003 - Communicable Disease And Aids Prevention And Control.
  (1) The department shall conduct a communicable disease prevention and control program as part of fulfilling its public health mission. A communicable disease is any disease...
• 381.0031 - Epidemiological Research; Report Of Diseases Of Public Health Significance To Department.
  (1) The department may conduct studies concerning the epidemiology of diseases of public health significance affecting people in Florida.(2) Any practitioner licensed in this state to practice...
• 381.00315 - Public Health Advisories; Public Health Emergencies; Isolation And Quarantines.
  The State Health Officer is responsible for declaring public health emergencies, issuing public health advisories, and ordering isolation or quarantines.(1) As used in this section, the...
• 381.0034 - Requirement For Instruction On Hiv And Aids.
  (1) The Department of Health shall require each person licensed or certified under chapter 467, part IV of chapter 468, or chapter 483, as a condition...
• 381.0035 - Educational Course On Hiv And Aids; Employees And Clients Of Certain Health Care Facilities.
  (1) The Department of Health shall require all employees and clients of facilities licensed under chapter 393, chapter 394, or chapter 397 and employees of facilities...
• 381.0038 - Education.
  The Department of Health shall establish a program to educate the public about the threat of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.(1) The acquired immune deficiency syndrome education...
• 381.0039 - Oversight Of Aids Education Programs.
  The Department of Education, the Department of Health, and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation are directed to establish an interagency agreement to oversee...
• 381.004 - Hiv Testing.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:(a) “Health care setting” means a setting devoted to the diagnosis and care of persons or the provision of medical services to...
• 381.0041 - Donation And Transfer Of Human Tissue; Testing Requirements.
  (1) Every donation of blood, plasma, organs, skin, or other human tissue for transfusion or transplantation to another shall be tested prior to transfusion or other...
• 381.0042 - Patient Care For Persons With Hiv Infection.
  The department may establish acquired immune deficiency syndrome patient care networks in each region of the state where the numbers of cases of acquired immune...
• 381.0043 - Blood Donor Protection Act; Blood And Blood Component Donors; Confidentiality.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Blood Donor Protection Act.”(2) A blood bank, a subsidiary or affiliate of a blood bank, an employee or agent...
• 381.0045 - Targeted Outreach For Pregnant Women.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Targeted Outreach for Pregnant Women Act of 1998.”(2) It is the purpose of this section to establish a targeted...
• 381.0046 - Statewide Hiv And Aids Prevention Campaign.
  (1) The Department of Health shall develop and implement a statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign that is directed towards minorities who are at risk of...
• 381.005 - Primary And Preventive Health Services.
  (1) The department shall conduct a primary and preventive health care program as part of fulfilling its public health mission. This program shall include, but is...
• 381.0051 - Family Planning.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section shall be known as the “Comprehensive Family Planning Act.”(2) ACCESS TO SERVICES; PROHIBITIONS.—Except as otherwise provided in this section, no medical agency or...
• 381.0052 - Dental Health.
  (1) This section shall be known as the “Public Health Dental Program Act.”(2) It is the intent of the Legislature to make available dental preventive and educational...
• 381.0053 - Comprehensive Nutrition Program.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to make available nutrition information to promote health and prevent disease for the citizens of the state and...
• 381.0055 - Confidentiality And Quality Assurance Activities.
  (1) All information which is confidential by operation of law and which is obtained by the Department of Health, a county health department, healthy start coalition,...
• 381.0056 - School Health Services Program.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “School Health Services Act.”(2) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Emergency health needs” means onsite evaluation, management, and aid...
• 381.0057 - Funding For School Health Services.
  (1) The State Surgeon General, or his or her designee, in cooperation with the Commissioner of Education, or his or her designee, shall publicize the availability...
• 381.0059 - Background Screening Requirements For School Health Services Personnel.
  (1) Pursuant to the provisions of chapter 435, any person who provides services under a school health services plan pursuant to s. 381.0056 must meet level...
• 381.00591 - Department Of Health; National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation; Application.
  The Department of Health may apply for and become a National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program accreditation body.History.—s. 54, ch. 99-397; s. 29, ch. 2012-184.
• 381.00593 - Public School Volunteer Health Care Practitioner Program.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Public School Volunteer Health Care Practitioner Act.”(2) The purpose of this section is to establish a public school volunteer...
• 381.006 - Environmental Health.
  The department shall conduct an environmental health program as part of fulfilling the state’s public health mission. The purpose of this program is to detect...
• 381.0061 - Administrative Fines.
  (1) In addition to any administrative action authorized by chapter 120 or by other law, the department may impose a fine, which shall not exceed $500...
• 381.0062 - Supervision; Private And Certain Public Water Systems.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:(a) “Contaminant” means any physical, biological, chemical, or radiological substance or matter in water.(b) “Department” means the Department of Health, including the county...
• 381.0063 - Drinking Water Funds.
  All fees and penalties received from suppliers of water pursuant to ss. 403.860(5) and 403.861(7)(a) shall be deposited in the appropriate County Health Department Trust...
• 381.0064 - Continuing Education Courses For Persons Installing Or Servicing Septic Tanks.
  (1) The Department of Health shall establish a program for continuing education which meets the purposes of ss. 381.0101 and 489.554 regarding the public health and...
• 381.0065 - Onsite Sewage Treatment And Disposal Systems; Regulation.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that proper management of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems is paramount to the health, safety, and...
• 381.00651 - Periodic Evaluation And Assessment Of Onsite Sewage Treatment And Disposal Systems.
  (1) For the purposes of this section, the term “first magnitude spring” means a spring that has a median water discharge of greater than or equal...
• 381.00655 - Connection Of Existing Onsite Sewage Treatment And Disposal Systems To Central Sewerage System; Requirements.
  (1)(a) The owner of a properly functioning onsite sewage treatment and disposal system, excluding an approved onsite graywater system, must connect the system or the building’s...
• 381.0066 - Onsite Sewage Treatment And Disposal Systems; Fees.
  (1) The department may collect fees for services provided with respect to onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems. The total fees assessed under this section must...
• 381.0067 - Corrective Orders; Private And Certain Public Water Systems And Onsite Sewage Treatment And Disposal Systems.
  When the department or its agents, through investigation, find that any private water system, public water system not covered or included in the Florida Safe...
• 381.0068 - Technical Review And Advisory Panel.
  (1) The Department of Health shall establish and staff a technical review and advisory panel to assist the department with rule adoption.(2) The primary purpose of the...
• 381.0072 - Food Service Protection.
  It shall be the duty of the Department of Health to adopt and enforce sanitation rules consistent with law to ensure the protection of the...
• 381.0075 - Regulation Of Body-piercing Salons.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—It is the intent of the Legislature to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public from the spread of infectious diseases from...
• 381.00771 - Definitions Of Terms Used In Ss. 381.00771-381.00791.
  As used in ss. 381.00771-381.00791, the term:(1) “Active license or registration” means a current license or registration issued by the department that is not suspended or...
• 381.00773 - Application Of Ss. 381.00771-381.00791; Exemption.
  (1) Except for s. 381.00787, which applies to all persons, ss. 381.00771-381.00791 do not apply to a person licensed to practice medicine or dentistry under chapter...
• 381.00775 - Tattoo Artists; Licensure; Registration Of Guest Tattoo Artists.
  (1) Except as provided in s. 381.00773, a person may not tattoo the body of any human being in this state unless the person is licensed...
• 381.00777 - Tattoo Establishments; Licensure; Temporary Establishments.
  (1)(a) Except as provided in s. 381.00773, a person may not tattoo the body of any human being in this state except at a tattoo establishment...
• 381.00779 - Practice Requirements.
  (1) A tattoo establishment or temporary establishment must:(a) Display an active license for the establishment in a manner that is easily visible to the public at all...
• 381.00781 - Fees; Disposition.
  The department shall establish by rule the following fees:(1) For the initial licensure of a tattoo establishment and the renewal of such license, a fee not...
• 381.00783 - Grounds For Discipline; Administrative Penalties.
  (1) The following acts constitute grounds for which disciplinary action specified in subsection (2) may be taken by the department against any tattoo establishment, temporary establishment,...
• 381.00785 - Criminal Penalties.
  (1) A person may not:(a) Operate a tattoo establishment or temporary establishment in this state without a license.(b) Practice tattooing in this state without a tattoo artist license...
• 381.00787 - Tattooing Prohibited; Penalty.
  (1) A person may not tattoo the body of a minor child younger than 16 years of age unless the tattooing is performed for medical or...
• 381.00789 - Rulemaking.
  The department shall adopt rules to administer ss. 381.00771-381.00791. Such rules may include, but are not limited to, rules defining terms; prescribing educational requirements for...
• 381.00791 - Local Laws And Ordinances.
  Sections 381.00771-381.00791 do not preempt any local law or ordinance of a county or municipality that imposes regulations on tattoo establishments, temporary establishments, tattoo artists,...
• 381.008 - Definitions Of Terms Used In Ss. 381.008-381.00897.
  As used in ss. 381.008-381.00897, the following words and phrases mean:(1) “Common areas”—That portion of a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing not included within...
• 381.0081 - Permit Required To Operate A Migrant Labor Camp Or Residential Migrant Housing; Penalties For Unlawful Establishment Or Operation; Allocation Of Proceeds.
  (1) MIGRANT LABOR CAMP; PERMIT REQUIREMENT.—A person who establishes, maintains, or operates a migrant labor camp in this state without first having obtained a permit from...
• 381.0082 - Application For Permit To Operate Migrant Labor Camp Or Residential Migrant Housing.
  Application for a permit to establish, operate, or maintain a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing must be made to the department in writing...
• 381.0083 - Permit For Migrant Labor Camp Or Residential Migrant Housing.
  Any person who is planning to construct, enlarge, remodel, use, or occupy a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing or convert property for use...
• 381.0084 - Application Fees For Migrant Labor Camps And Residential Migrant Housing.
  (1) Each migrant labor camp operator or owner of residential migrant housing who is subject to s. 381.0081 shall pay to the department the following annual...
• 381.0085 - Revocation Of Permit To Operate Migrant Labor Camp Or Residential Migrant Housing.
  The department may revoke a permit authorizing the operation of a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing if it finds the holder has failed...
• 381.0086 - Rules; Variances; Penalties.
  (1) The department shall adopt rules necessary to protect the health and safety of migrant farmworkers and other migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing occupants,...
• 381.0087 - Enforcement; Citations.
  (1) Department personnel may issue citations that contain an order of correction or an order to pay a fine, or both, for violations of ss. 381.008-381.00895...
• 381.0088 - Right Of Entry.
  The department or its inspectors may enter and inspect migrant labor camps or residential migrant housing at reasonable hours and investigate such facts, conditions, and...
• 381.00893 - Complaints By Aggrieved Parties.
  Any person who believes that the housing violates any provision of ss. 381.008-381.00895 or rules adopted thereunder may file a complaint with the department. Upon...
• 381.00895 - Prohibited Acts; Application.
  (1) An owner or operator of housing subject to the provisions of ss. 381.008-381.00897 may not, for the purpose of retaliating against a resident of that...
• 381.00896 - Nondiscrimination.
  (1) The Legislature declares that it is the policy of this state that each county and municipality must permit and encourage the development and use of...
• 381.00897 - Access To Migrant Labor Camps And Residential Migrant Housing.
  (1) RIGHT OF ACCESS OF INVITED GUEST.—A resident of a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing may decide who may visit him or her in...
• 381.009 - Toilets Required By Department Regulations; Charge For Use Of Prohibited.
  No place of employment or place serving the public shall make a charge for the use of any toilet which is required to be provided...
• 381.0098 - Biomedical Waste.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—Except as otherwise provided herein, the Department of Health shall regulate the packaging, transport, storage, and treatment of biomedical waste. The Department of Environmental...
• 381.0101 - Environmental Health Professionals.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section:(a) “Board” means the Environmental Health Professionals Advisory Board.(b) “Department” means the Department of Health.(c) “Environmental health” means that segment of public health work...
• 381.0201 - Technical And Support Services.
  The department shall establish certain technical and support programs to enable the county health departments and other public or private agencies to carry out the...
• 381.0202 - Laboratory Services.
  (1) The department shall establish and maintain, in suitable and convenient places in the state, laboratories for microbiological and chemical analyses and any other purposes it...
• 381.0203 - Pharmacy Services.
  (1) The department may contract on a statewide basis for the purchase of drugs, as defined in s. 499.003, to be used by state agencies and...
• 381.0204 - Vital Statistics.
  The department shall provide for a statewide vital statistics program pursuant to chapter 382.History.—s. 47, ch. 91-297.
• 381.0205 - Emergency Medical Services.
  The department shall provide for a statewide emergency medical services program pursuant to chapters 395 and 401.History.—s. 48, ch. 91-297.
• 381.026 - Florida Patient’s Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the “Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.”(2) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section and s. 381.0261, the term:(a) “Department” means...
• 381.0261 - Summary Of Patient’s Bill Of Rights; Distribution; Penalty.
  (1) The Department of Health shall publish on its Internet website a summary of the Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities. In adopting and making...
• 381.028 - Adverse Medical Incidents.
  (1) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the “Patients’ Right-to-Know About Adverse Medical Incidents Act.”(2) PURPOSE.—It is the purpose of this act to implement s. 25,...
• 381.0303 - Special Needs Shelters.
  (1) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this section is to provide for the operation and closure of special needs shelters and to designate the Department of Health, through...
• 381.0402 - Area Health Education Center Network.
  The department, in cooperation with the state-approved medical schools in this state, shall organize an area health education center network based on earlier medically indigent...
• 381.0405 - Office Of Rural Health.
  (1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Department of Health shall establish an Office of Rural Health. The Office of Rural Health shall coordinate its activities with the area health education...
• 381.0406 - Rural Health Networks.
  (1) LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS AND INTENT.—(a) The Legislature finds that, in rural areas, access to health care is limited and the quality of health care is negatively affected...
• 381.04065 - Rural Health Network Cooperative Agreements.
  (1) INTENT.—It is the Legislature’s intent that, to the extent necessary to foster the development of rural health networks as provided for in s. 381.0406, competitive...
• 381.0601 - Self-derived And Directed-donor Blood Programs.
  (1) Any person residing in this state shall be entitled and allowed to participate in a program to donate his or her own blood, in order...
• 381.06014 - Blood Establishments.
  (1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Blood establishment” means any person, entity, or organization, operating within the state, which examines an individual for the purpose...
• 381.06015 - Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank.
  (1) There is established a statewide consortium to be known as the Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank. The Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank is established as...
• 381.06016 - Umbilical Cord Blood Awareness.
  (1) The Department of Health shall make publicly available, by posting on its Internet website, resources and an Internet website link to materials relating to umbilical...
• 381.4018 - Physician Workforce Assessment And Development.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “Consortium” or “consortia” means a combination of statutory teaching hospitals, specialty children’s hospitals, statutory rural hospitals, other hospitals, accredited...
• 381.7351 - Short Title; Closing The Gap Act.
  Sections 381.7351-381.7356 may be cited as the “Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap Act.”History.—s. 27, ch. 2000-256.
• 381.7352 - Legislative Intent.
  It is the intent of the Legislature to provide funds within Florida counties and Front Porch Florida Communities, in the form of Reducing Racial and...
• 381.7353 - Reducing Racial And Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing The Gap Grant Program; Administration; Department Duties.
  (1) The Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap grant program shall be administered by the Department of Health.(2) The department shall:(a) Publicize the availability of...
• 381.7354 - Eligibility.
  (1) Any person, entity, or organization within a county may apply for a Closing the Gap grant and may serve as the lead agency to administer...
• 381.7355 - Project Requirements; Review Criteria.
  (1) Closing the Gap grant proposals shall be submitted to the Department of Health for review.(2) A proposal must include each of the following elements:(a) The purpose and...
• 381.7356 - Local Matching Funds; Grant Awards.
  (1) One or more Closing the Gap grants may be awarded in a county, or in a group of adjoining counties from which a multicounty application...
• 381.739 - Short Title; Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain Or Spinal Cord Injuries Act.
  Sections 381.739-381.79 may be cited as the “Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries Act.”History.—s. 32, ch. 94-324; s. 17, ch. 99-240.Note.—Former s. 413.465.
• 381.7395 - Legislative Intent.
  It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure the referral of individuals who have moderate-to-severe brain or spinal cord injuries to the brain and...
• 381.74 - Establishment And Maintenance Of A Central Registry.
  The department shall establish and maintain a central registry of persons who have moderate-to-severe brain or spinal cord injuries.(1) Every public health agency, private health agency,...
• 381.745 - Definitions; Ss. 381.739-381.79.
  As used in ss. 381.739-381.79, the term:(1) “Activity of daily living” means an activity required on a frequent basis which permits an individual to secure or...
• 381.75 - Duties And Responsibilities Of The Department.
  Consistent with the mandate of s. 381.7395, the department shall develop and administer a multilevel treatment program for individuals who sustain brain or spinal cord...
• 381.755 - Benefits Not Assignable.
  The right of an eligible individual to any services provided by the brain and spinal cord injury program is not transferable or assignable, and any...
• 381.76 - Eligibility For The Brain And Spinal Cord Injury Program.
  (1) An individual shall be accepted as eligible for the brain and spinal cord injury program following certification by the department that the individual:(a) Has been referred...
• 381.765 - Retention Of Title To And Disposal Of Equipment.
  (1) The department may retain title to any property, tools, instruments, training supplies, equipment, or other items of value acquired for services provided under the brain...
• 381.775 - Applicant And Recipient Records; Confidential And Privileged.
  (1) All oral and written records, information, letters, and reports received, made, or maintained by the department relative to any applicant for or recipient of services...
• 381.78 - Advisory Council On Brain And Spinal Cord Injuries.
  (1) There is created within the department a 16-member advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries. The council shall be composed of a minimum of...
• 381.785 - Recovery Of Third-party Payments For Funded Services.
  (1) Third-party coverage for funded services constitutes primary coverage.(2) An applicant for or recipient of services funded under the brain and spinal cord injury program must inform...
• 381.79 - Brain And Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund.
  (1) There is created in the State Treasury the Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund. Moneys in the fund shall be appropriated to the...
• 381.815 - Sickle-cell Program.
  The Department of Health shall, to the extent that resources are available:(1) Provide education to the citizens of Florida about sickle-cell disease.(2) Work cooperatively with not-for-profit centers...
• 381.82 - Ed And Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program.
  (1) The Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program is created within the Department of Health. The purpose of the program is to fund research...
• 381.83 - Trade Secrets; Confidentiality.
  Records, reports, or information obtained from any person under this chapter, unless otherwise provided by law, shall be available to the public, except upon a...
• 381.84 - Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education And Use Prevention Program.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section and for purposes of the provisions of s. 27, Art. X of the State Constitution, the term:(a) “AHEC network” means an...
• 381.853 - Florida Center For Brain Tumor Research.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish a coordinated effort among the state’s public and private universities and hospitals and the biomedical industry...
• 381.8531 - Florida Center For Brain Tumor Research; Public Records Exemption.
  (1) The following information held by the Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research before, on, or after July 1, 2011, is confidential and exempt from s....
• 381.86 - Institutional Review Board.
  (1) The Institutional Review Board is created within the Department of Health in order to satisfy federal requirements under 45 C.F.R. part 46 and 21 C.F.R....
• 381.88 - Emergency Allergy Treatment.
  (1) This section and s. 381.885 may be cited as the “Emergency Allergy Treatment Act.”(2) As used in this section and s. 381.885, the term:(a) “Administer” means to...
• 381.885 - Epinephrine Auto-injectors; Emergency Administration.
  (1) PRESCRIBING TO AN AUTHORIZED ENTITY.—An authorized health care practitioner may prescribe epinephrine auto-injectors in the name of an authorized entity for use in accordance with...
• 381.887 - Emergency Treatment For Suspected Opioid Overdose.
  (1) As used in this section, the term:(a) “Administer” or “administration” means to introduce an emergency opioid antagonist into the body of a person.(b) “Authorized health care practitioner”...
• 381.89 - Regulation Of Tanning Facilities.
  (1) As used in this section:(a) “Tanning facility” means a place of business which provides access to a tanning device by customers.(b) “Department” means the Department of Health.(c) “Tanning...
• 381.895 - Standards For Compressed Air Used For Recreational Diving.
  (1) The Department of Health shall establish maximum allowable levels for contaminants in compressed air used for recreational sport diving in this state. In developing the...
• 381.91 - Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to create a community faith-based disease-prevention program in conjunction with the Health Choice Network and other community health...
• 381.911 - Prostate Cancer Awareness Program.
  (1) The purpose of this program is to provide statewide outreach, promote prostate cancer awareness, communicate the advantages of early detection, report recent progress in prostate...
• 381.915 - Florida Consortium Of National Cancer Institute Centers Program.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Florida NCI Cancer Centers Act.”(2) The Florida Consortium of National Cancer Institute Centers Program is established to enhance the...
• 381.922 - William G. “bill” Bankhead, Jr., And David Coley Cancer Research Program.
  (1) The William G. “Bill” Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program, which may be otherwise cited as the “Bankhead-Coley Program,” is created within the...
• 381.92201 - Exemptions From Public Records And Public Meetings Requirements; Peer Review Panels.
  (1) That portion of a meeting of a peer review panel in which applications for biomedical research grants under s. 215.5602 or s. 381.922 are discussed...
• 381.925 - Cancer Center Of Excellence Award.
  (1) The Legislature intends to recognize hospitals, treatment centers, and other providers in this state which demonstrate excellence in patient-centered coordinated care for persons undergoing cancer...
• 381.93 - Breast And Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program.
  This section may be cited as the “Mary Brogan Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Act.”(1) It is the intent of the Legislature to reduce...
• 381.931 - Annual Report On Medicaid Expenditures.
  The Department of Health and the Agency for Health Care Administration shall monitor the total Medicaid expenditures for services made under this act. If Medicaid...
• 381.9315 - Gynecologic And Ovarian Cancer Education And Awareness.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Kelly Smith Gynecologic and Ovarian Cancer Education and Awareness Act.”(2) The department shall encourage health care providers, including, but...
• 381.932 - Breast Cancer Early Detection And Treatment Referral Program.
  (1) For purposes of this section, the term:(a) “Breast cancer screening and referral services” means necessary breast cancer screening and referral services for a procedure intended to...
• 381.95 - Medical Facility Information Maintained For Terrorism Response Purposes; Confidentiality.
  (1) Any information identifying or describing the name, location, pharmaceutical cache, contents, capacity, equipment, physical features, or capabilities of individual medical facilities, storage facilities, or laboratories...
• 381.98 - The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc.; Establishment; Purpose; Mission; Duties; Board Of Directors.
  (1) The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc., referred to in this section as “the corporation,” is established for the purpose of advancing the knowledge and practice...
• 381.981 - Health Awareness Campaigns.
  (1) The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc., in consultation with the Department of Health, shall coordinate monthly health awareness campaigns with national, state, and local health...
• 381.982 - Short Title.
  This act may be cited as the “Lead Poisoning Prevention Screening and Education Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 2006-269.
• 381.983 - Definitions.
  As used in this act, the term:(1) “Affected property” means a room or group of rooms within a property constructed before January 1, 1960, or within...
• 381.984 - Educational Programs.
  (1) LEAD POISONING PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.—In order to achieve the purposes of this act, a statewide, multifaceted, ongoing educational program designed to meet the needs...
• 381.985 - Screening Program.
  (1) The State Surgeon General shall establish a program for early identification of persons at risk of having elevated blood-lead levels. Such program shall systematically screen...
• 381.986 - Compassionate Use Of Low-thc Cannabis.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:(a) “Dispensing organization” means an organization approved by the department to cultivate, process, and dispense low-THC cannabis pursuant to this...
• 381.987 - Public Records Exemption For Personal Identifying Information In The Compassionate Use Registry.
  (1) A patient’s personal identifying information held by the department in the compassionate use registry established under s. 381.986, including, but not limited to, the patient’s...

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