No. CS/CS/CS/SB 902
Filed under Healthcare.
Department of Health; Revising requirements for department approval of qualified physicians and medical directors of medical marijuana treatment centers; prohibiting medical marijuana treatment center cultivating, processing, or dispensing facilities from being located within a specified distance of parks, child care facilities, or facilities providing early learning services; creating the Neurofibromatosis Disease Grant Program within the department; revising duties of the department in administering the Early Steps Program; authorizing a registered nurse to delegate the administration of certain controlled substances to a home health aide for medically fragile children under certain circumstances, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDNew medical marijuana cultivating, processing, and dispensing facilities cannot locate within 500 feet of parks, child care facilities, or early learning facilities, though facilities the department already approved before July 2026 are exempt from these new distance rules.
A registered nurse may now delegate giving a Schedule IV emergency seizure medication to a home health aide caring for a medically fragile child, expanding who can respond during a seizure at home.
The Department of Health must create and, by January 2027, electronically distribute to NICU hospitals a pamphlet on preterm-infant nutrition, and it gains a new competitive grant program funding neurofibromatosis research.
Statutory deadlines and notice requirements for transitioning toddlers with disabilities out of early intervention services are removed, replaced by protocols the department will write itself, and a health practitioner's arrest for murder now triggers emergency license suspension.
AIMedical marijuana cultivating, processing, and dispensing facilities may not locate within 500 feet of a park, licensed child care facility, or early learning facility, extending a buffer that previously applied only to schools.
AIEstablishes a competitive, peer-reviewed grant program inside the Department of Health funding scientific and clinical research into diagnostics, treatments, and cures for neurofibromatosis, open to any university or research institute in the state.
AIA registered nurse may now delegate to a home health aide caring for a medically fragile child the administration of a Schedule IV controlled substance prescribed for emergency treatment of an active seizure, a new exception to the general ban on delegating controlled substances.
AIInstead of the detailed 90-day notice, opt-out, and conference process previously written into law, the department must now create its own statewide protocols governing how toddlers with disabilities transition out of Early Steps and its Extended Option into school-district or other programs.
AIA health care practitioner arrested for murder, or for attempting, soliciting, or conspiring to commit murder, now falls under the department's existing authority to summarily suspend a practitioner's license upon arrest for listed offenses.
AIThe department must create an evidence-based pamphlet on preterm infants' nutritional needs, covering breast milk, donor milk, formula risks, and necrotizing enterocolitis, and make it available electronically to NICU hospitals by January 1, 2027.
AIThe definition of "low-THC cannabis" now requires more than 2 percent cannabidiol content by weight, down from more than 10 percent, while explicitly excluding edible products from qualifying regardless of potency.
AIApplicants may still qualify through the alternate master's-degree pathway for marriage and family therapy licensure if their degree was conferred before September 1, 2032, five years later than the prior cutoff.