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FL H0803
Bill
Status
Failed
6/16/2025
Primary Sponsor
Health & Human Services Committee
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AI Summary
- Replaces the term "oriental" with "eastern" throughout Florida's acupuncture practice act (Chapter 457, F.S.) when referring to medicine, massage, and medical practitioners
- Adds new statutory definitions for "direct supervision," "eastern medicine," and "practice of acupuncture," and expands prescriptive rights to include herbs, homeopathics, and nutritional supplements in sterile form (vitamins, minerals, lipids, sugars, carbohydrates, amino acids) while explicitly excluding controlled substances, medicinal drugs, corticosteroids, antibiotics, vaccinations, and botulinum toxin
- Revises licensure education requirements to mandate a 4-year course of study in acupuncture and eastern medicine including 60 hours of injection therapy study, and removes the obsolete allowance for a 2-year course for those who enrolled before August 1, 1997
- Eliminates the department-administered examination as a licensure pathway, retaining only the board-approved national examination/certification process or licensure by endorsement, and removes associated examination and reexamination fees (previously up to $500 each)
- Allows acupuncturists licensed in another state, D.C., or U.S. territory to perform acupuncture procedures or demonstrate equipment at board-approved continuing education programs; effective July 1, 2025
Legislative Description
Acupuncture
Last Action
Died in Rules
6/16/2025
Committee Referrals
Health And Human Services3/27/2025
Health Professions & Programs Subcommittee2/26/2025
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