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The bill, sponsored by Sen. Burgess and taken up by the committee at its meeting, would reduce the annual number of nominations for the Veterans Hall of Fame from 20 to five, expand Florida Department of Veterans' Affairs (FDVA) health-survey and coordination efforts to connect veterans to benefits, add mental-health training to the Veterans Suicide Prevention Training pilot program, and require FDVA to develop a plan to establish adult day health-care facilities across the state to serve veterans and their families.

The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Burgess, described the adult day-health provision as a response to the prohibitive cost and logistics of adding more skilled nursing beds and said adult day health centers would help keep veterans at home while ensuring they receive care. Burgess also said the bill would improve interoperability between Veterans Florida and the department to better link veterans to workforce services.

Committee members adopted amendment barcode 3901 by unanimous consent. The amendment appropriated $300,000 to the Veterans Suicide Prevention Training Pilot Program and $50,000 for the FDVA health survey; no mover or seconder was recorded on the amendment and it was adopted without objection.

During debate, Sen. Hale thanked the sponsor for adding the adult day-health provision, calling it key to building a support community for veterans and a pipeline into veterans nursing-home services. The committee recorded two appearance forms from Karen Murillo of AARP and Mitchell McCombs; neither gave extended public testimony in the transcript beyond appearance-form acknowledgment.

The committee took a roll call after debate and the clerk reported the committee would show CS for Senate Bill 116 as reported favorably. The roll call in the transcript gives affirmative responses for Senator Berman, Senator Broder, Senator Burton, Senator Garcia, Senator Harrell, Senator Roussan, Vice Chair Davis and Chair Trumbull; separate entries later show Senator Rodriguez and Senator Garcia asking to be recorded affirmative on SB116.

SB116 now goes forward as a committee substitute reported favorably; the transcript does not specify the bill’s next committee or floor calendar date.

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Sponsor Sen. Harrell told the committee the original collaborative-practice expansion (about six years earlier) listed chronic conditions such as arthritis, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, type 2 diabetes, HIV and obesity, and authorized the Board of Pharmacy to expand the list in collaboration with the Board of Medicine. SB294 would specifically exclude complex cardiac diagnoses — Sen. Harrell identified heart failure, coronary heart disease and cardiac arrhythmias — from those conditions eligible for pharmacist management under collaborative practice agreements.

Opposing the bill, Stacy Hall, executive vice president and CEO of the Florida Pharmacy Association, told the committee that collaborative practice agreements (CPAs) are voluntary, require physician oversight and patient consent, and include provisions that limit services to those appropriate to a pharmacist’s training; she argued that the statute and rules already provide safeguards and that excluding cardiac conditions would limit patient access and reduce efficient, team-based care.

Dr. Mario Lopez, a cardiologist with the Florida chapter of the American College of Cardiology, testified in support of SB294. Lopez said cardiac patients are complex, that no protocol captures the full complexity of cardiac decision-making and that pharmacists do not have the same clinical training as cardiologists; he described two cases he called examples of potentially dangerous medication decisions made at a pharmacy counter.

Sen. Burton spoke in support of the bill, saying pharmacists play an important role but that diagnosing and treating serious cardiac conditions should remain with physicians. When asked whether the bill would impose state costs, Sen. Harrell said he did not anticipate a cost to the state; he noted an individual patient could face higher out-of-pocket costs if forced to see a cardiologist, but argued that adverse cardiac events would be costlier.

After public testimony and debate, the committee reported SB294 favorably. The transcript records roll-call affirmatives for Senator Berman, Senator Broder, Senator Burton, Senator Garcia, Senator Gruters, Senator Harrell, Senator Rodriguez, Senator Roussan, Vice Chair Davis and Chair Trumbull.","Senate Bill 294, sponsored by Sen. Harrell, would exclude specific cardiac diseases from conditions pharmacists may manage under collaborative practice agreements; the bill drew testimony from the Florida Pharmacy Association in opposition and cardiologists in support and was reported favorably by the committee.","actionData","errors"]

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Senate panel approves veterans package directing FDVA to plan adult day health centers and funding surveys and suicide-prevention pilot

Senate committee narrows collaborative pharmacy practice by excluding complex cardiac diseases