TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida Home handed a invoice Wednesday that forestalls well being care discrimination based mostly on vaccination standing and maintains the state’s prohibition in opposition to discrimination associated to mRNA vaccines.
What it does: HB 1299 prohibits well being care suppliers and amenities from discriminating in opposition to a affected person based mostly solely on vaccination standing and affirms a affected person’s proper to neutral entry to therapy or lodging no matter vaccination standing.
- The invoice repeals the scheduled expiration of the definition of mRNA vaccines, sustaining the prohibition in opposition to discrimination based mostly on vaccination standing.
- It prohibits well being care suppliers and amenities from discriminating in opposition to sufferers based mostly solely on vaccination standing.
- The invoice requires Medical Marijuana Remedy Facilities and Testing Laboratories to report precise or tried theft, loss, or diversion of medical marijuana to the Division of Well being along with regulation enforcement, and defines “house owners,” “managers,” and “workers” for background screening functions.
The invoice additionally The invoice additionally revises definitions to incorporate the “American Board of Doctor Specialties,” updates the checklist of establishments whose college could obtain medical college certificates with out examination, and authorizes non permanent observe certificates for sure doctor assistants.
The sponsors: Rep. Taylor Michael Yarkosky is carrying the Home invoice. The same invoice, SB 1270, is being carried by Sen. Jay Collins within the Senate.
What they’re saying: Florida Surgeon Common Dr. Joseph Ladapo urged lawmakers to go the Senate model of the invoice Tuesday, and stated dad and mom in Florida are having bother discovering a pediatrician of their space as a result of sure docs refuse to see kids “in the event that they deviate in any respect from the vaccine schedule issued by the CDC.”
- “We’re in a brand new period. There are extra folks now asking questions on ‘what’s actually finest for my child’ after the previous few years we’ve been in,” Ladapo stated.
WATCH: @FLSurgeonGen Dr. Joseph Ladapo says dad and mom in Florida are having bother discovering a pediatrician of their space as a result of sure docs refuse to see kids “in the event that they deviate in any respect from the vaccine schedule issued by the CDC”
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— Florida’s Voice (@FLVoiceNews) April 22, 2025
Subsequent steps: The invoice handed the complete Home ground 114-1. The Senate invoice is heading to the Senate ground for consideration.
