Florida SB 64: Exemptions from School-entry Health Requirements

Bill Text

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Medical Review Committees 
2025-09-23T10:42:47Z 
Revising the definition of the term “medical review committee”, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 64 

 By Senator Harrell 

 31-00320-26 202664__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to medical review committees; amending 
 3 s. 766.101, F.S.; revising the definition of the term 
 4 “medical review committee”; revising provisions 
 5 related to discovery and evidence in civil and 
 6 administrative actions to conform to changes made by 
 7 the act; providing an effective date. 
 8 
 9 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 10 
 11 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and subsection 
 12 (5) of section 766.101, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 
 13 766.101 Medical review committee, immunity from liability.— 
 14 (1) As used in this section: 
 15 (a) The term “medical review committee” or “committee” 
 16 means: 
 17 1.a. A committee of a hospital or ambulatory surgical 
 18 center licensed under chapter 395 or a health maintenance 
 19 organization certificated under part I of chapter 641; 
 20 b. A committee of a physician-hospital organization, a 
 21 provider-sponsored organization, or an integrated delivery 
 22 system; 
 23 c. A committee of a state or local professional society of 
 24 health care providers; 
 25 d. A committee of a medical staff of a licensed hospital or 
 26 nursing home, provided the medical staff operates pursuant to 
 27 written bylaws that have been approved by the governing board of 
 28 the hospital or nursing home; 
 29 e. A committee of the Department of Corrections or the 
 30 Correctional Medical Authority as created under s. 945.602, or 
 31 employees, agents, or consultants of either the department or 
 32 the authority or both; 
 33 f. A committee of a professional service corporation formed 
 34 under chapter 621 or a corporation organized under part I of 
 35 chapter 607 or chapter 617, which is formed and operated for the 
 36 practice of medicine as defined in s. 458.305(3), and which has 
 37 at least 25 health care providers who routinely provide health 
 38 care services directly to patients; 
 39 g. A committee of the Department of Children and Families 
 40 or a managing entity as defined in s. 394.9082(2), which may 
 41 include includes employees or, agents of, or consultants to the 
 42 department or managing entity and any other persons the 
 43 department or managing entity deems as deemed necessary to 
 44 provide peer review, utilization review, or and mortality review 
 45 of treatment services provided pursuant to chapters 394, 397, 
 46 and 916; 
 47 h. A committee of a mental health treatment facility 
 48 licensed under chapter 394 or a community mental health center 
 49 as defined in s. 394.907, provided the quality assurance program 
 50 operates pursuant to the guidelines that have been approved by 
 51 the governing board of the agency; 
 52 i. A committee of a substance abuse treatment and education 
 53 prevention program licensed under chapter 397 provided the 
 54 quality assurance program operates pursuant to the guidelines 
 55 that have been approved by the governing board of the agency; 
 56 j. A peer review or utilization review committee organized 
 57 under chapter 440; 
 58 k. A committee of the Department of Health, a county health 
 59 department, healthy start coalition, or certified rural health 
 60 network, when reviewing quality of care, or employees of these 
 61 entities when reviewing mortality records; or 
 62 l. A continuous quality improvement committee of a pharmacy 
 63 licensed pursuant to chapter 465, 
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 65 which committee is formed to evaluate and improve the quality of 
 66 health care rendered by providers of health service, to 
 67 determine whether that health services rendered were 
 68 professionally indicated or were performed in compliance with 
 69 the applicable standard of care, or whether that the cost of 
 70 health care rendered was considered reasonable by the providers 
 71 of professional health services in the area; or 
 72 2. A committee of an insurer, self-insurer, or joint 
 73 underwriting association of medical malpractice insurance, or 
 74 other persons conducting review under s. 766.106. 
 75 (5) The investigations, proceedings, and records of a 
 76 committee as described in the preceding subsections are shall 
 77 not be subject to discovery or introduction into evidence in any 
 78 civil or administrative action against a provider of 
 79 professional health services or a managing entity arising out of 
 80 the matters which are the subject of evaluation and review by 
 81 such committee, and any no person who was in attendance at a 
 82 meeting of such committee is not shall be permitted or required 
 83 to testify in any such civil action as to any evidence or other 
 84 matters produced or presented during the p