FL H1387

Prohibits enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research in Florida that is reasonably likely to create pathogens with increased transmissibility or virulence in humans, requires researchers applying for state or local funding to disclose whether their work meets this definition, and directs the Department of Health to enjoin violations.

Restricts medical marijuana treatment centers from producing products attractive to children (including shapes resembling humans, cartoons, animals, or commercially available candy), prohibits product names and advertising containing child-appealing imagery or wording that promotes recreational marijuana use, and expands background screening requirements to include all employees of marijuana testing laboratories.

Modernizes vital records by requiring local registrars to electronically file all birth, death, and fetal death records in the Department of Health's electronic registration system, extending the confidentiality period for birth records from 100 to 125 years, and allowing circuit courts to transmit marriage licenses and dissolution-of-marriage records on weekly or monthly electronic reporting schedules.

Revises emergency medical services provisions by removing the requirement that EMT/paramedic certification exams be offered monthly, eliminating temporary certificates and related fees, exempting certain EMS training program applicants from affiliation agreement requirements, and expanding the scope of paramedic and EMT community health care activities including nonemergency wellness activities and patient transport to non-hospital facilities.

Creates a distinction between "prescription hearing aids" and "over-the-counter hearing aids," exempts persons who exclusively sell over-the-counter hearing aids from hearing aid specialist licensure requirements, and allows licensed hearing aid specialists to service, market, sell, and distribute both prescription and over-the-counter hearing aids.