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FL HB 651

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Electronic Monitoring Devices in Long-term Care Facilities

Florida · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

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 broadcast or recorded by electronic monitoring device.

Introduced
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Status date
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Latest action
2026-03-13 — Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Plasenciaprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-12-04

    Filed

    filing

  2. 2025-12-12

    Referred to Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    referral-committee

  3. 2025-12-12

    Referred to Judiciary Committee

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-12-12

    Referred to Health & Human Services Committee

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-12-12

    Now in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

  6. 2026-01-13

    1st Reading (Original Filed Version)

    filing,reading-1

  7. 2026-03-13

    Died in Health Care Facilities & Systems Subcommittee

    failure

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

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Official source

https://flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2026/651/ByCategory

Attribution

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