Florida · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
SB 170: Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
Did not advance Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
- Did not advance
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Plain-language summary
SB 170 is a bill introduced in the Florida Senate on February 25, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Quality of Care in Nursing Homes. Primary sponsor: Colleen Burton (Republican), Health Policy, Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services. Most recent recorded action (June 16, 2025): Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199), SB 2514 (Ch. 2025-204).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Quality of Care in Nursing Homes; Reviving, reenacting, and amending a provision relating to consumer satisfaction surveys; requiring the Agency for Health Care Administration to develop user-friendly consumer satisfaction surveys for nursing home facilities; requiring medical directors of nursing home facilities to obtain, or to be in the process of obtaining, certain qualifications by a specified date; requiring nursing home facilities to conduct biennial patient safety culture surveys; requiring nursing home facilities that maintain certain electronic health records to make available certain data to the agency’s Florida Health Information Exchange program for a specified purpose; exempting nursing homes operated by state agencies from certain financial reporting requirements, etc.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colleen Burton | Primary sponsor | Republican | Senate | 12 |
| Health Policy | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
| Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services | Primary sponsor | Not applicable (committee) | — | — |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199), SB 2514 (Ch. 2025-204)
- Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
- In Messages
- Immediately certified
- CS passed; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
- Read 3rd time
- Read 2nd time
- Placed on Special Order Calendar, 04/09/25
- Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading
- CS/CS by Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services read 1st time
- Favorable by- Appropriations; YEAS 18 NAYS 0
- On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 04/03/25, 9:00 am, 412 Knott Building --Meeting cancelled
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