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Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 223: Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities

Did not advance Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted
  6. Did not advance

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 223 is a bill introduced in the Florida House on January 24, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities. Primary sponsor: Susan Plasencia (Republican), Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee. It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Judiciary Committee.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities; Defines "electronic monitoring device" & "representative"; authorizes resident, or his or her representative, of nursing home facility or assisted living facility, respectively, to install & use electronic monitoring device in resident's room if specified conditions are met; provides for consent of resident living in shared room with resident who intends to install device; authorizes other resident or his or her representative to impose conditions on consent; provides for withdrawal of consent & modification of conditions; requires AHCA to adopt forms by rule; prohibits facilities from denying admission or otherwise discriminating against resident for installing electronic monitoring device; provides administrative penalty; provides criminal penalty for unlawfully obstructing, tampering with, or destroying electronic monitoring device or recording made by such device; specifies who may view or listen to images & sounds broadcast or recorded by electronic monitoring device.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Susan PlasenciaPrimary sponsorRepublicanHouse37
Health Care Facilities & Systems SubcommitteePrimary sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Johanna LópezCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Mitch RosenwaldCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse98

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Died in Judiciary Committee
  2. Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
  3. 1st Reading (Committee Substitute 1)
  4. 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
  5. Now in Judiciary Committee
  6. Referred to Health & Human Services Committee
  7. Referred to Judiciary Committee
  8. CS Filed
  9. Laid on Table under Rule 7.18(a)
  10. Reported out of Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
  11. Favorable with CS by Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
  12. Added to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee agenda

Showing 12 most recent of 17 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source