Bill Summary

SB 1506 Health Care (2012 Session)
Health Care; Authorizing the Board of Optometry to adopt rules for the administration and prescription of ocular pharmaceutical agents; requiring that a certified optometrist complete a course and subsequent examination on general and ocular pharmacology; prohibiting the board, the Department of Health, or the State Surgeon General from deleting an oral pharmaceutical agent listed in the statutory formulary; requiring that adverse incidents in the practice of optometry be reported to the Department of Health; revising the definition of the term “practitioner” to include certified optometrists for purposes of the Florida Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act, etc. Effective Date: July 1, 2012
01/05/12
SENATE
Filed
01/17/12
SENATE
Referred to Health Regulation; Judiciary; Budget
02/06/12
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Health Regulation, 02/09/12, 1:15 pm, 412 K
02/09/12
SENATE
Favorable with CS by Health Regulation; 4 Yeas, 3 Nays
02/13/12
SENATE
Committee Substitute Text (C1) Filed
02/13/12
SENATE
Now in Judiciary
02/14/12
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/16/12, 10:30 am, 110 S
02/14/12
SENATE
On Committee agenda - Judiciary, 02/17/12, 10:30 am, 110 S
02/15/12
SENATE
Meeting cancelled - Judiciary, 02/17/12, 10:30 am, 110 S
02/16/12
SENATE
Favorable by Judiciary; 5 Yeas, 2 Nays
02/16/12
SENATE
Now in Budget
02/21/12
SENATE
Subreferred to Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
02/21/12
SENATE
Now in Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
03/09/12
SENATE
Died in Budget Subcommittee on Health and Human Services Appropriations
1506
Filed on 01/05/12
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Amendment 227268 DE
Filed on 02/08/12
Replaced by CS
Amendment 358292 SA
Filed on 02/09/12
Withdrawn
Amendment 800732 ASA
Filed on 02/09/12
Withdrawn
Amendment 784708 AA
Filed on 02/09/12
Withdrawn
1506C1
Filed on 02/13/12
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No amendments to this bill text filed.
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