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FL H0103
Bill
Status
Failed
6/16/2025
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, 2026
- 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 is July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Protection from Surgical Smoke
Last Action
Died in Health & Human Services Committee
6/16/2025
Committee Referrals
Health And Human Services2/25/2025
Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee1/15/2025
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