Florida SB 902: Safety Standards for Amusement Rides

Bill Text

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Department of Health 
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Revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services; creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the department; revising duties of the department in administering the Early Steps Program; authorizing a registered nurse to delegate the administration of certain controlled substances to a home health aide for medically fragile children under certain circumstances, etc. 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for CS for SB 902 

 By the Committee on Rules; the Appropriations Committee on 
 Health and Human Services; the Committee on Health Policy; and 
 Senator Garcia 

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 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Department of Health; amending 
 3 s. 381.986, F.S.; revising the definition of the term 
 4 “low-THC cannabis”; revising requirements for 
 5 department approval of qualified physicians and 
 6 medical directors of medical marijuana treatment 
 7 centers; deleting obsolete language; defining the term 
 8 “park”; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center 
 9 cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from 
 10 being located within a specified distance of parks, 
 11 child care facilities, or facilities providing early 
 12 learning services; authorizing counties and 
 13 municipalities to approve a dispensing facility within 
 14 such distance under certain circumstances; providing 
 15 that the subsequent establishment of any park, child 
 16 care facility, early learning facility, or school 
 17 after the approval of a medical marijuana treatment 
 18 center’s cultivating, processing, or dispensing 
 19 facility does not affect the continued operation or 
 20 location of the approved cultivating, processing, or 
 21 dispensing facility; exempting cultivating, 
 22 processing, or dispensing facilities approved before a 
 23 specified date from such distance requirements; 
 24 creating s. 381.994, F.S.; creating the 
 25 Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the 
 26 department; providing the purpose of the program; 
 27 requiring the program, subject to legislative 
 28 appropriation, to award grants for certain purposes; 
 29 specifying entities that are eligible to apply for 
 30 grants under the program; allowing certain grant 
 31 proposals to receive preference in the awarding of 
 32 grants; requiring the department to award grants after 
 33 consulting with the Rare Disease Advisory Council; 
 34 specifying the types of applications that may be 
 35 considered for grant funding; requiring the department 
 36 to appoint peer review panels to review the scientific 
 37 merit of grant applications and establish their 
 38 priority scores; requiring the council to consider the 
 39 priority scores in determining which proposals are 
 40 recommended for grant funding under the program; 
 41 requiring the council and peer review panels to 
 42 establish and follow certain guidelines when 
 43 performing their duties under the program; prohibiting 
 44 members of the council or peer review panels from 
 45 participating in discussions or decisions if there are 
 46 certain conflicts of interest; authorizing certain 
 47 appropriated funds to be carried forward under certain 
 48 circumstances; amending s. 383.14, F.S.; requiring the 
 49 department to create an evidence-based educational 
 50 pamphlet on the nutritional needs of preterm infants 
 51 for a specified purpose; requiring the department to 
 52 make the pamphlet available electronically to certain 
 53 hospitals by a specified date; specifying requirements 
 54 for the pamphlet; amending s. 391.308, F.S.; revising 
 55 duties of the department in administering the Early 
 56 Steps Program; revising provisions related to 
 57 transitioning children from the Early Steps Program to 
 58 school district programs; amending s. 391.3081, F.S.; 
 59 revising provisions relating to the Early Steps 
 60 Extended Option to conform to changes made by the act; 
 61 amending s. 456.074, F.S.; requiring the department to 
 62 issue an emergency order suspending the license of a 
 63 health care practitioner arrested for committing or 
 64 attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit murder 
 65 in this state or another jurisdiction; amending s. 
 66 464.0156, F.S.; authorizing a registered nurse to 
 67 delegate the administration of certain controlled 
 68 substances to a home health aide for medically fragile 
 69 children under certain circumstances; amending s. 
 70 491.005, F.S.; revising licensure requirements for 
 71 marriage and family therapists; amendi