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Updated February 2019 | ||
Proposed bill | Summary of Proposed Bill or Regulation | Status |
HB 835 / SB 666 | Defines & redefines terms relating to veterinary medical practice. | Failed |
HB 27 / SB 1640 | Deregulation of Professions and Occupations Amends 474 Florida Statutes to revise the definition of the term “limited service veterinary medical practice” and education requirements for licensure by examination, and to require the department to issue a license by endorsement to certain applicants who successfully complete a specified examination | Failed
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HB 391 / SB 978 | Exempts residents of other states from certain application & licensing fees during state of emergency & for certain period thereafter. | Failed |
HB 379 / SB 774 | Authorizes veterinarian to report criminal violations to certain officers & agents; provides that certain contracts are unenforceable; authorizes court to take certain actions regarding care, custody, possession, or control of animal in domestic violence actions; requires certain persons to complete specified board-approved continuing education to perform euthanasia; requires certain animal control agencies & organizations to meet certain import requirements. | Engrossed with Other bills Under HB 7125. Passed in the House & Senate Goes to Gov DeSantis to be signed |
| Would: 1. Prohibit a pharmacist or practitioner, including veterinarians, from dispensing a newly-prescribed Schedule II prescription opioid unless the prescription bottle or container has a warning sticker that warns users concerning the addictive nature of opioids and the risks of overdoses; and 2. Require that the warning sticker be red with text large enough to be legible and placed on the cap of the bottle in which the opioid is dispensed | Failed | |
| Requires prescriptions to be electronically generated & transmitted; prohibits electronic prescribing from interfering with patient’s freedom to choose pharmacy; provides restrictions for electronic prescribing software; authorizes electronic prescribing software to display information regarding payor’s formulary; repeals various provisions relating to electronic prescribing & unlawful acts relating to counterfeit-resistant prescription blanks for controlled substances. | Passed in the House & Senate Goes to Gov DeSantis to be signed | |
HB 333 / SB 1058 | Florida Hemp Program Creates state hemp program within DACS; provides requirements for program registration & distribution & retail sale of hemp, hemp products, & hemp extract; directs DACS, in consultation with DOH & DBPR, to adopt specified rules; provides corrective measures for violations; directs Commissioner of Agriculture, in consultation with Governor & Attorney General, to submit specified plan to United States Secretary of Agriculture; authorizes certain pilot projects to participate in state hemp program. | Failed |
HB 19 / SB 1452 | Creates programs for purpose of safely importing cost-effective prescription drugs into state from Canada & other foreign nations under specified conditions; provides eligibility criteria for prescription drugs & program participants; provides distribution requirements; provides annual reporting requirements; provides application & permitting requirements for certain participating entities; provides that implementation of International Prescription Drug Importation Program is contingent on federal arrangement or obtaining federal guidance. | Passed in the House & Senate Goes to Gov DeSantis to be signed |
HB 69 / SB 96 | Makes injuring or killing a police, fire or search/rescue canine a second degree felony and the injury or killing of a police horse a third degree felony |
Gov. DeSantis signed into law Becomes effective 10/1/2019 |
HB 841 / SB 976 | Creates Care for Retired Law Enforcement Dogs Program within FDLE; requires FDLE to contract with corporation not for profit to administer & manage program; provides requirements for funding veterinary care for eligible dogs; places annual cap on funds available for a dog; prohibits reimbursement if funds are depleted. | Failed |
| HB1095 / SB1202 | Companion Animal Public-Private Partnership ACT Prohibits animal shelters from euthanizing animals under certain conditions; requires animal shelters to release animals to rescue organizations; provides exceptions. | Failed |
HB 1105 / | Declaring that certain contracts entered into on or after a specified date for the sale or lease of a pet are void and unenforceable as being against the public policy of this state; providing an exception, etc. | Failed |
| HB 721 / SB1128 | Provides that individual with disability who has emotional support animal is entitled to access to housing accommodation; prohibits housing accommodation from requiring such individual pay extra compensation; authorizes housing accommodation to request written documentation verifying individual’s disability or disability-related need under certain circumstances; specifies individual is liable for certain damage done by emotional support animal; prohibits falsification of written documentation or other misrepresentation; provides penalties | Failed |
| SB 1738 | Prohibiting a person from restraining a dog outside and unattended during a manmade disaster or a natural disaster, etc. | Failed |
HB 991 / SB 1090 | Keep Our Graduates Working Act: Creating the “Keep Our Graduates Working Act of 2019”; prohibiting a state authority from suspending or revoking a person’s professional license, certificate, registration, or permit solely on the basis of a delinquency or default in the payment of his or her student loan; prohibiting a state authority from suspending or revoking a person’s professional license, certificate, registration, or permit solely on the basis of a default in satisfying the requirements of his or her work-conditional scholarship, etc. | Failed |
| HB 3661 | Provides an appropriation for the University of Florida: Increasing Veterinary Medicine Class Size by 60 Students per graduating class | Withdrawn
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