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The Sunshine Act requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biological and medical supplies covered by the three federal health care programs Medicare, Medicaid, and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to collect and track all financial relationships with physicians and teaching hospitals and to report these data to the ...
Film Developers (for child pornography purposes) As of April 2019, any person who suspects child abuse or neglect is required to report suspected abuse or neglect regardless of profession in 18 States and Puerto Rico. In all other States, territories, and the District of Columbia, any person is permitted to report.
Florida's Government in the Sunshine Law, commonly called the Sunshine Law, passed in 1967. It requires that all meetings of any state, county, or municipal board or commission in Florida be open to the public, and declares that actions taken at closed meetings are not binding ( Section 286.011, Florida Statutes ).
June 11, 2024 at 1:01 PM. Ernst Peters/The Ledger/Ernst Peters/The Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK. Florida’s restrictions on medical care for transgender children are unconstitutional, a federal ...
Freedom of information legislation (Florida) The open government laws in Florida are focused on three areas: [1] Statutory public records ↓ (codified at Fla. Stat. secs. 119.01 to 119.15 (1995)), Statutory public meetings ↓ (the Florida Sunshine Law, codified at Fla. Stat. secs. 286.011 to 286.012 (1991)), Judicial access decisional law ↓.
Mandated reporter. In the United States, a mandated reporter is a person who is legally required to report child abuse and neglect to Child Protective Services upon reasonable suspicion. Mandatory reporting laws generally apply to professionals who interact regularly with children (for example, teachers and pediatricians) while in some states ...
Regulate Fairly. The Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR) is the agency charged with licensing and regulating more than 1.6 million businesses and professionals in the State of Florida, such as alcohol, beverage & tobacco, barbers/cosmetologists, condominiums, spas, hotels and restaurants, real estate agents and appraisers ...
In 2004, an OECD report noted that "all OECD countries [except Mexico, Turkey, and the US] had achieved universal or near-universal (at least 98.4% insured) coverage of their populations by 1990". The 2004 IOM report also observed that "lack of health insurance causes roughly 18,000 unnecessary deaths every year in the US".