Chapter

HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS

Fla. Stat. § 456.001— Definitions
Fla. Stat. § 456.002— Applicability
Fla. Stat. § 456.003— Legislative intent; requirements
Fla. Stat. § 456.004— Department; powers and duties
Fla. Stat. § 456.005— Long-range policy planning
Fla. Stat. § 456.006— Contacting boards through department
Fla. Stat. § 456.007— Board members
Fla. Stat. § 456.008— Accountability and liability of board members
Fla. Stat. § 456.009— Legal and investigative services
Fla. Stat. § 456.011— Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses
Fla. Stat. § 456.012— Board rules; final agency action; challenges
Fla. Stat. § 456.013— Department; general licensing provisions
Fla. Stat. § 456.014— Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing
Fla. Stat. § 456.015— Limited licenses
Fla. Stat. § 456.016— Use of professional testing services
Fla. Stat. § 456.017— Examinations
Fla. Stat. § 456.018— Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination
Fla. Stat. § 456.019— Restriction on requirement of citizenship
Fla. Stat. § 456.021— Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation
Fla. Stat. § 456.022— Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions
Fla. Stat. § 456.023— Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted
Fla. Stat. § 456.024— Members of Armed Forces and veterans; spouses; licensure
Fla. Stat. § 456.025— Fees; receipts; disposition
Fla. Stat. § 456.026— Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations
Fla. Stat. § 456.027— Education; accreditation
Fla. Stat. § 456.028— Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements
Fla. Stat. § 456.029— Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements
Fla. Stat. § 456.031— Requirement for instruction on domestic violence
Fla. Stat. § 456.032— Hepatitis B or HIV carriers
Fla. Stat. § 456.033— Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS
Fla. Stat. § 456.035— Address of record
Fla. Stat. § 456.036— Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency
Fla. Stat. § 456.36— Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting
Fla. Stat. § 456.037— Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability
Fla. Stat. § 456.038— Renewal and cancellation notices
Fla. Stat. § 456.38— Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies
Fla. Stat. § 456.039— Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure
Fla. Stat. § 456.041— Practitioner profile; creation
Fla. Stat. § 456.41— Complementary or alternative health care treatments
Fla. Stat. § 456.042— Practitioner profiles; update
Fla. Stat. § 456.42— Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs
Fla. Stat. § 456.043— Practitioner profiles; data storage
Fla. Stat. § 456.43— Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs
Fla. Stat. § 456.044— Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops
Fla. Stat. § 456.44— Controlled substance prescribing
Fla. Stat. § 456.045— Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information
Fla. Stat. § 456.046— Practitioner profiles; confidentiality
Fla. Stat. § 456.47— Use of telehealth to provide services
Fla. Stat. § 456.048— Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners
Fla. Stat. § 456.049— Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions
Fla. Stat. § 456.50— Repeated medical malpractice
Fla. Stat. § 456.051— Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health’s responsibility to provide
Fla. Stat. § 456.51— Consent for pelvic examinations
Fla. Stat. § 456.052— Disclosure of financial interest by production
Fla. Stat. § 456.52— Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures; prohibitions; informed consent
Fla. Stat. § 456.053— Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services
Fla. Stat. § 456.054— Kickbacks prohibited
Fla. Stat. § 456.055— Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation
Fla. Stat. § 456.056— Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians
Fla. Stat. § 456.057— Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished; disclosure of information
Fla. Stat. § 456.058— Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice
Fla. Stat. § 456.059— Communications confidential; exceptions
Fla. Stat. § 456.061— Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability
Fla. Stat. § 456.61— Use of free speech by a health care practitioner; prohibition
Fla. Stat. § 456.062— Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement
Fla. Stat. § 456.62— Communication of COVID-19 treatment alternatives
Fla. Stat. § 456.063— Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
Fla. Stat. § 456.065— Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fees; allocation and disposition of moneys collected
Fla. Stat. § 456.066— Prosecution of criminal violations
Fla. Stat. § 456.067— Penalty for giving false information
Fla. Stat. § 456.068— Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints
Fla. Stat. § 456.069— Authority to inspect
Fla. Stat. § 456.071— Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas
Fla. Stat. § 456.072— Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement
Fla. Stat. § 456.073— Disciplinary proceedings
Fla. Stat. § 456.074— Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license
Fla. Stat. § 456.075— Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives
Fla. Stat. § 456.076— Impaired practitioner programs
Fla. Stat. § 456.077— Authority to issue citations
Fla. Stat. § 456.078— Mediation
Fla. Stat. § 456.079— Disciplinary guidelines
Fla. Stat. § 456.081— Publication of information
Fla. Stat. § 456.082— Disclosure of confidential information
Fla. Stat. § 456.0135— General background screening provisions
Fla. Stat. § 456.0145— Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement (MOBILE) Act
Fla. Stat. § 456.0241— Temporary certificate for active duty military health care practitioners
Fla. Stat. § 456.0242— Office of Veteran Licensure Services
Fla. Stat. § 456.0301— Requirement for instruction on controlled substance prescribing
Fla. Stat. § 456.0341— Requirements for instruction on human trafficking
Fla. Stat. § 456.0361— Compliance with continuing education requirements
Fla. Stat. § 456.0391— Advanced practice registered nurses; information required for licensure
Fla. Stat. § 456.0392— Prescription labeling
Fla. Stat. § 456.0495— Reporting adverse incidents occurring in planned out-of-hospital births
Fla. Stat. § 456.0496— Provision of information on eye and vision disorders to parents during planned out-of-hospital births
Fla. Stat. § 456.0575— Duty to notify patients
Fla. Stat. § 456.0625— Patient overpayments; refunds
Fla. Stat. § 456.0635— Health care fraud; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration
Fla. Stat. § 456.4501— Interstate Medical Licensure Compact
Fla. Stat. § 456.4502— Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; disciplinary proceedings
Fla. Stat. § 456.4503— Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission; public records and meetings exemptions
Fla. Stat. § 456.4504— Interstate Medical Licensure Compact rules