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2007 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 456
HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
    
    HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 456
                HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
            
                        456.001
                        
                    Definitions. 
                    
                        456.002
                        
                    Applicability. 
                    
                        456.003
                        
                    Legislative intent; requirements. 
                    
                        456.004
                        
                    Department; powers and duties. 
                    
                        456.005
                        
                    Long-range policy planning; plans, reports, and recommendations. 
                    
                        456.006
                        
                    Contacting boards through department. 
                    
                        456.007
                        
                    Board members. 
                    
                        456.008
                        
                    Accountability and liability of board members. 
                    
                        456.009
                        
                    Legal and investigative services. 
                    
                        456.011
                        
                    Boards; organization; meetings; compensation and travel expenses. 
                    
                        456.012
                        
                    Board rules; final agency action; challenges. 
                    
                        456.013
                        
                    Department; general licensing provisions. 
                    
                        456.014
                        
                    Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing. 
                    
                        456.015
                        
                    Limited licenses. 
                    
                        456.016
                        
                    Use of professional testing services. 
                    
                        456.017
                        
                    Examinations. 
                    
                        456.018
                        
                    Penalty for theft or reproduction of an examination. 
                    
                        456.019
                        
                    Restriction on requirement of citizenship. 
                    
                        456.021
                        
                    Qualification of immigrants for examination to practice a licensed profession or occupation. 
                    
                        456.022
                        
                    Foreign-trained professionals; special examination and license provisions. 
                    
                        456.023
                        
                    Exemption for certain out-of-state or foreign professionals; limited practice permitted. 
                    
                        456.024
                        
                    Members of Armed Forces in good standing with administrative boards or the department; spouses. 
                    
                        456.025
                        
                    Fees; receipts; disposition. 
                    
                        456.026
                        
                    Annual report concerning finances, administrative complaints, disciplinary actions, and recommendations. 
                    
                        456.027
                        
                    Education; accreditation. 
                    
                        456.028
                        
                    Consultation with postsecondary education boards prior to adoption of changes to training requirements. 
                    
                        456.029
                        
                    Education; substituting demonstration of competency for clock-hour requirements. 
                    
                        456.031
                        
                    Requirement for instruction on domestic violence. 
                    
                        456.032
                        
                    Hepatitis B or HIV carriers. 
                    
                        456.033
                        
                    Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on HIV and AIDS. 
                    
                        456.034
                        
                    Athletic trainers and massage therapists; requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS. 
                    
                        456.035
                        
                    Address of record. 
                    
                        456.036
                        
                    Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency. 
                    
                        456.037
                        
                    Business establishments; requirements for active status licenses; delinquency; discipline; applicability. 
                    
                        456.038
                        
                    Renewal and cancellation notices. 
                    
                        456.039
                        
                    Designated health care professionals; information required for licensure. 
                    
                        456.0391
                        
                    Advanced registered nurse practitioners; information required for certification. 
                    
                        456.0392
                        
                    Prescription labeling. 
                    
                        456.041
                        
                    Practitioner profile; creation. 
                    
                        456.042
                        
                    Practitioner profiles; update. 
                    
                        456.043
                        
                    Practitioner profiles; data storage. 
                    
                        456.044
                        
                    Practitioner profiles; rules; workshops. 
                    
                        456.045
                        
                    Practitioner profiles; maintenance of superseded information. 
                    
                        456.046
                        
                    Practitioner profiles; confidentiality. 
                    
                        456.048
                        
                    Financial responsibility requirements for certain health care practitioners. 
                    
                        456.049
                        
                    Health care practitioners; reports on professional liability claims and actions. 
                    
                        456.051
                        
                    Reports of professional liability actions; bankruptcies; Department of Health's responsibility to provide. 
                    
                        456.052
                        
                    Disclosure of financial interest by production. 
                    
                        456.053
                        
                    Financial arrangements between referring health care providers and providers of health care services. 
                    
                        456.054
                        
                    Kickbacks prohibited. 
                    
                        456.055
                        
                    Chiropractic and podiatric health care; denial of payment; limitation. 
                    
                        456.056
                        
                    Treatment of Medicare beneficiaries; refusal, emergencies, consulting physicians. 
                    
                        456.057
                        
                    Ownership and control of patient records; report or copies of records to be furnished. 
                    
                        456.0575
                        
                    Duty to notify patients. 
                    
                        456.058
                        
                    Disposition of records of deceased practitioners or practitioners relocating or terminating practice. 
                    
                        456.059
                        
                    Communications confidential; exceptions. 
                    
                        456.061
                        
                    Practitioner disclosure of confidential information; immunity from civil or criminal liability. 
                    
                        456.062
                        
                    Advertisement by a health care practitioner of free or discounted services; required statement. 
                    
                        456.063
                        
                    Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration. 
                    
                        456.065
                        
                    Unlicensed practice of a health care profession; intent; cease and desist notice; penalties; enforcement; citations; fees; allocation and disposition of moneys collected. 
                    
                        456.066
                        
                    Prosecution of criminal violations. 
                    
                        456.067
                        
                    Penalty for giving false information. 
                    
                        456.068
                        
                    Toll-free telephone number for reporting of complaints. 
                    
                        456.069
                        
                    Authority to inspect. 
                    
                        456.071
                        
                    Power to administer oaths, take depositions, and issue subpoenas. 
                    
                        456.072
                        
                    Grounds for discipline; penalties; enforcement. 
                    
                        456.0721
                        
                    Practitioners in default on student loan or scholarship obligations; investigation; report. 
                    
                        456.073
                        
                    Disciplinary proceedings. 
                    
                        456.074
                        
                    Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license. 
                    
                        456.075
                        
                    Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives. 
                    
                        456.076
                        
                    Treatment programs for impaired practitioners. 
                    
                        456.077
                        
                    Authority to issue citations. 
                    
                        456.078
                        
                    Mediation. 
                    
                        456.079
                        
                    Disciplinary guidelines. 
                    
                        456.081
                        
                    Publication of information. 
                    
                        456.082
                        
                    Disclosure of confidential information. 
                    
                        456.36
                        
                    Health care professionals; exemption from disqualification from employment or contracting. 
                    
                        456.38
                        
                    Practitioner registry for disasters and emergencies. 
                    
                        456.41
                        
                    Complementary or alternative health care treatments. 
                    
                        456.42
                        
                    Written prescriptions for medicinal drugs. 
                    
                        456.43
                        
                    Electronic prescribing for medicinal drugs. 
                    
                        456.50
                        
            Repeated medical malpractice.