Title: Sickle Cell Care Management and Treatment Education

Summary: Requires specified continuing education course for first licensure & certification renewal for specified health care professions; provides requirements for such courses; authorizes appropriate boards to adopt rules.

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An act relating to sickle cell care management and treatment education; creating s. 456.0311, F.S.; requiring a specified continuing education course for the first licensure and certification renewal for specified health care professions; providing requirements for such course; authorizing appropriate boards to adopt rules; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Flori da: Section 1. Section 456.0311, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 456.0311 Requirement for instruction on sickle cell disease.-(1)(a) The appropriate board shall require each person licensed or certified under chapter 458, chapter 459, or pa rt I of chapter to complete one-hour continuing education course, approved by the board, on sickle cell disease care management as part of the first licensure or certification renewal. The course shall consist of education specific to sickle cell dis ease and sickle cell trait including, but not limited to, evidence-based treatment protocols for patients of all ages, continuing patient and family education, periodic comprehensive evaluations and other disease-specific health HB 2025 hb333 FL OR I DA HO US EO FR EP RE SE NT A TI VE Smaintenance services, psych osocial care, genetic counseling, and pain management. (b) Each licensee or certificateholder shall submit confirmation of having completed such course on a form provided by the appropriate board when submitting fees for the first renewal. (c) The boar dmay approve additional equivalent courses that may be used to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a). Each licensing board that requires a licensee to complete an educational course pursuant to this section may include the hour required for completion of the course in the total hours of continuing education required by law for such profession unless the continuing education requirements for such profession consist of fewer than hours biennially. (d) Any person holding two or more licenses subject to the provisions of this section shall be permitted to show proof of having taken one board-approved course to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a) for purposes of relicensure or recertification for additional licenses. (e) Failure to comply with the requirements of this section shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action under each respective practice act and under s. 456.072(1)(k). In addition to discipline by the appropriate board, the licensee shall be required to complete the course requir ed under this section. HB 2025 hb333 FL OR I DA HO US EO FR EP RE SE NT A TI VE S(2) Each appropriate board may adopt rules to carry out this section. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.