Florida Statutes Chapter 456 — HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS: GENERAL PROVISIONS

From the Legislature's 2026 edition, which includes changes effective through January 1, 2027. Later effective dates are retained in each section's source notes.

Title XXXII

• § 456.001 — Definitions.
• § 456.002 — Applicability.
• § 456.003 — Legislative intent; requirements.
• § 456.004 — Department; powers and duties.
• § 456.005 — Long-range policy planning.
• § 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.
• § 456.0135 — General background screening provisions.
• § 456.014 — Public inspection of information required from applicants; exceptions; examination hearing.
• § 456.0145 — Mobile Opportunity by Interstate Licensure Endorsement (MOBILE) Act.
• § 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 and veterans; spouses; licensure.
• § 456.0241 — Temporary certificate for active duty military health care practitioners.
• § 456.0242 — Office of Veteran Licensure Services.
• § 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.
• § 456.0301 — Requirement for instruction on controlled substance prescribing.
• § 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.
• § 456.0341 — Requirements for instruction on human trafficking.
• § 456.035 — Address of record.
• § 456.036 — Licenses; active and inactive status; delinquency.
• § 456.0361 — Compliance with continuing education requirements.
• § 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 practice registered nurses; information required for licensure.
• § 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.
• § 456.0495 — Reporting adverse incidents occurring in planned out-of-hospital births.
• § 456.0496 — Provision of information on eye and vision disorders to parents during planned out-of-hospital births.
• § 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; disclosure of information.
• § 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.
• § 456.0625 — Patient overpayments; refunds.
• § 456.063 — Sexual misconduct; disqualification for license, certificate, or registration.
• § 456.0635 — Health care fraud; 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.
• § 456.073 — Disciplinary proceedings.
• § 456.074 — Certain health care practitioners; immediate suspension of license.
• § 456.075 — Criminal proceedings against licensees; appearances by department representatives.
• § 456.076 — Impaired practitioner programs.
• § 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.
• § 456.44 — Controlled substance prescribing.
• § 456.4501 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact.
• § 456.4502 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact; disciplinary proceedings.
• § 456.4503 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact Commission; public records and meetings exemptions.
• § 456.4504 — Interstate Medical Licensure Compact rules.
• § 456.47 — Use of telehealth to provide services.
• § 456.50 — Repeated medical malpractice.
• § 456.51 — Consent for pelvic examinations.
• § 456.52 — Sex-reassignment prescriptions and procedures; prohibitions; informed consent.
• § 456.61 — Use of free speech by a health care practitioner; prohibition.
• § 456.62 — Communication of COVID-19 treatment alternatives.