No. SB 878
Filed under Healthcare.
Clinical Laboratory Personnel; Requiring that an applicant who qualifies for licensure under specified provisions provide proof of such qualification and pay the required fees to be eligible for licensure; requiring that applicants for licensure as a technologist or technician who meet specified criteria be deemed to have satisfied minimum qualifications for licensure to perform high or moderate complexity testing as a technologist or technician, as applicable, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDA lab technologist or technician who meets federal requirements to perform high-complexity testing is automatically deemed to meet Florida's own minimum qualifications for a license to perform that same level of testing.
The same deeming applies to technicians, though not technologists, who meet the separate federal standard for moderate-complexity testing, letting them satisfy Florida's licensing qualifications the same way.
Qualifying this way does not skip the licensing process itself: the applicant must still prove they meet the standard, pass background screening, and pay the usual licensing fees.
AIA technologist or technician applicant who meets the federal requirement to perform high-complexity lab testing is automatically treated as having met Florida's own minimum qualifications for a license to perform that testing.
AIA technician applicant, but not a technologist applicant, who meets the federal requirement to perform moderate-complexity lab testing is likewise deemed to meet Florida's minimum qualifications for that license.
AIAn applicant relying on the new federal-equivalency pathway must still provide proof of the qualification, complete background screening, and pay the standard licensing fees to actually become licensed.