No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1443
Filed under Healthcare.
Parkinson's Disease Registry ; Requires physicians & advanced practice registered nurses to report certain information to Parkinson's disease registry; provides limited liability for physicians & advanced practice registered nurses under certain circumstances; requires President of Senate & Speaker of House of Representatives to each appoint one member to Parkinson's Disease Research Board; revises membership qualifications & terms; revises report requirements; requires Institute for Parkinson's Disease within University of South Florida, subject to appropriation, to establish & maintain statewide Parkinson's disease registry; provides requirements for such registry; requires institute to create & maintain Parkinson's disease registry-specific website; provides requirements for such website.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDBeginning January 1, 2027, every physician and advanced practice registered nurse who diagnoses or treats a patient for Parkinson's disease or atypical parkinsonism must report standardized performance measures to a new statewide registry.
Physicians and advanced practice nurses cannot be sued or held liable in any way simply for submitting the required information to the statewide Parkinson's disease registry, as long as they report it.
The University of South Florida's Parkinson's institute will build the registry and a public website with county-level disease data, but only if the Legislature separately funds the project.
The state's Parkinson's Disease Research Board gains two legislative appointees, but its other members must now be movement-disorder specialists or informatics researchers rather than come from a broad range of scientific fields.
AIStarting January 1, 2027, every physician licensed under chapter 458 or 459 who diagnoses or treats a patient for Parkinson's disease or atypical parkinsonism must report standardized performance-measure data to the statewide registry.
AIThe identical reporting requirement applies to advanced practice registered nurses under chapter 464, extending the mandatory registry-reporting duty beyond physicians to this class of nurses as well.
AIThe University of South Florida's Parkinson's institute is only required to build and maintain the statewide registry if the Legislature makes a specific appropriation for it, unlike the reporting duty itself.
AIA physician cannot be sued or held liable for damages or any other relief solely because they submitted the required Parkinson's disease information to the statewide registry.
AIMost Parkinson's Disease Research Board members must now have experience as a movement disorder specialist and in informatics or population-health and Parkinson's disease research, replacing a broader list of acceptable scientific backgrounds.
AIThe Senate President and House Speaker each appoint one member to the Parkinson's Disease Research Board, adding two politically appointed seats alongside the university-representative members.
AIBy January 1, 2028, the institute must create a public website dedicated to the registry, publishing downloadable annual reports on Parkinson's disease incidence and prevalence and other board-determined information.