FL S1486

Allows residents or their representatives in nursing homes and assisted living facilities to install electronic monitoring devices (video cameras and/or audio recorders) in their rooms, subject to specified conditions.

Requires residents to pay all costs for the device, installation, maintenance, and removal (excluding electricity); if in a shared room, the other resident must consent, and can impose conditions such as directing the camera away from them.

Prohibits facilities from denying admission, discharging residents, or retaliating against residents for choosing to install monitoring devices; violations result in a $500 fine per violation.

Makes it a first-degree misdemeanor for any unauthorized person to obstruct, tamper with, or destroy the device or its recordings; only the resident, their representative, law enforcement, or authorized persons may view or listen to recordings.

Establishes July 1, 2023 as the effective date and authorizes the Agency for Health Care Administration to adopt implementing rules.