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FL H0063
Bill
Status
Failed
3/8/2024
Primary Sponsor
Marie Woodson
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AI Summary
- Creates section 395.1013, Florida Statutes, requiring licensed hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers to adopt and implement policies mandating the use of smoke evacuation systems during any surgical procedure likely to generate surgical smoke by January 1, 2025
- Defines "smoke evacuation system" as equipment that captures, filters, and eliminates surgical smoke at the site of origin before it contacts the eyes or respiratory tract of room occupants
- Defines "surgical smoke" as gaseous byproducts produced by energy-generating devices such as lasers and electrosurgical devices, including surgical plume, bio-aerosols, laser-generated airborne contaminants, and lung-damaging dust
- Effective date of July 1, 2024
Legislative Description
Protection from Surgical Smoke
Last Action
Died in Fiscal Policy
3/8/2024
Committee Referrals
Health And Human Services1/24/2024
Health Care Appropriations Subcommittee1/17/2024
Select Committee on Health Innovation10/5/2023
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