Fla. Stat. 381.0011
Duties and powers of the Department of Health

(1)

Assess the public health status and needs of the state.

(2)

Administer and enforce laws and rules relating to sanitation, control of communicable diseases, illnesses and hazards to health among humans and from animals to humans, and the general health of the people of the state.

(3)

Coordinate with federal, state, and local officials for the prevention and suppression of communicable and other diseases, illnesses, injuries, and hazards to human health.

(4)

Provide for a thorough investigation and study of the incidence, causes, modes of propagation and transmission, and means of prevention, control, and cure of diseases, illnesses, and hazards to human health.

(5)

Provide for the dissemination of information to the public relative to the prevention, control, and cure of diseases, illnesses, and hazards to human health.

(6)

Act as registrar of vital statistics.

(7)

Manage and coordinate emergency preparedness and disaster response functions to: investigate and control the spread of disease; coordinate the availability and staffing of special needs shelters; support patient evacuation; ensure the safety of food and drugs; provide critical incident stress debriefing; and provide surveillance and control of radiological, chemical, biological, and other environmental hazards.

Source: Section 381.0011 — Duties and powers of the Department of Health, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0381.­0011 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

381.001
Public health system 381.002
Grant of title to prescriptive medical personal property to client 381.003
Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control 381.004
HIV testing 381.005
Primary and preventive health services 381.006
Environmental health 381.008
Definitions of terms used in ss 381.009
Toilets required by department regulations 381.0011
Duties and powers of the Department of Health 381.0012
Enforcement authority 381.0016
County and municipal regulations and ordinances 381.0018
Application for and acceptance of gifts or grants 381.0019
Disposition of equipment and material 381.0021
Client welfare accounts 381.0022
Sharing confidential or exempt information 381.026
Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities 381.028
Adverse medical incidents 381.0031
Epidemiological research 381.0034
Requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS 381.0035
Educational course on HIV and AIDS 381.0038
Education 381.0039
Oversight of AIDS education programs 381.0041
Donation and transfer of human tissue 381.0042
Patient care for persons with HIV infection 381.0043
Blood Donor Protection Act 381.0045
Targeted outreach for pregnant women 381.0046
Statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign 381.0051
Family planning 381.0052
Dental health 381.0053
Comprehensive nutrition program 381.0055
Confidentiality and quality assurance activities 381.0056
School health services program 381.0057
Funding for school health services 381.0059
Background screening requirements for school health services personnel 381.0061
Administrative fines 381.0062
Supervision 381.0063
Drinking water funds 381.0064
Continuing education program for installation and use of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems 381.0065
Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems 381.0066
Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems 381.0067
Corrective orders 381.0072
Food service protection 381.74
Establishment and maintenance of a central registry 381.75
Duties and responsibilities of the department 381.0075
Regulation of body-piercing salons 381.76
Eligibility for the brain and spinal cord injury program 381.78
Advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries 381.79
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund 381.0081
Permit required to operate a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing 381.82
Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program 381.0082
Application for permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing 381.0083
Permit for migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing 381.84
Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program 381.0084
Application fees for migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing 381.0085
Revocation of permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing 381.86
Institutional Review Board 381.0086
Rules 381.0087
Enforcement 381.88
Emergency allergy treatment 381.0088
Right of entry 381.89
Regulation of tanning facilities 381.91
Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program 381.93
Breast and cervical cancer early detection program 381.95
Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes 381.96
Pregnancy support and wellness services 381.98
The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc. 381.0098
Biomedical waste 381.99
Rare Disease Advisory Council 381.0101
Environmental health professionals 381.0201
Technical and support services 381.0202
Laboratory services 381.0203
Pharmacy services 381.0204
Vital statistics 381.0205
Emergency medical services 381.0261
Summary of patient’s bill of rights 381.0303
Special needs shelters 381.00315
Public health advisories 381.00316
Discrimination by governmental and business entities based on health care choices 381.00318
Complaints and investigations regarding mandate prohibitions 381.00319
Prohibition on mask mandates and vaccination and testing mandates for educational institutions 381.00321
The right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors 381.00322
International health organization policies 381.402
Florida Reimbursement Assistance for Medical Education Program 381.0402
Area health education center network 381.0405
Office of Rural Health 381.0406
Rural health networks 381.00591
Department of Health 381.00593
Public school volunteer health care practitioner program 381.0601
Self-derived and directed-donor blood programs 381.00651
Periodic evaluation and assessment of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems 381.00655
Connection of existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewerage system 381.735
Office of Minority Health and Health Equity 381.739
Short title 381.745
Definitions 381.755
Benefits not assignable 381.765
Retention of title to and disposal of equipment 381.00771
Definitions of terms used in ss 381.00773
Application of ss 381.775
Applicant and recipient records 381.00775
Tattoo artists 381.00777
Tattoo establishments 381.00779
Practice requirements 381.00781
Fees 381.00783
Grounds for discipline 381.00785
Criminal penalties 381.785
Recovery of third-party payments for funded services 381.00787
Tattooing prohibited 381.00789
Rulemaking 381.00791
Local laws and ordinances 381.814
Sickle Cell Disease Research and Treatment Grant Program 381.815
Sickle-cell program 381.825
Education and public awareness relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia 381.853
Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research 381.875
Enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research prohibited 381.885
Epinephrine auto-injectors 381.887
Emergency treatment for suspected opioid overdose 381.00893
Complaints by aggrieved parties 381.895
Standards for compressed air used for recreational diving 381.00895
Prohibited acts 381.00896
Nondiscrimination 381.00897
Access to migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing 381.911
Prostate Cancer Awareness Program 381.915
Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program 381.922
William G. “Bill” Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program 381.925
Cancer Center of Excellence Award 381.931
Annual report on Medicaid expenditures 381.932
Breast cancer early detection and treatment referral program 381.933
Mammography reports 381.981
Health awareness campaigns 381.982
Short title 381.983
Definitions 381.984
Educational programs 381.985
Screening program 381.986
Medical use of marijuana 381.987
Public records exemption for personal identifying information relating to medical marijuana held by the department 381.988
Medical marijuana testing laboratories 381.989
Public education campaigns 381.991
Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program 381.02035
Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program 381.4015
Florida health care innovation 381.4018
Physician workforce assessment and development 381.4019
Dental Student Loan Repayment Program 381.4021
Student loan repayment programs reporting 381.04065
Rural health network cooperative agreements 381.06014
Blood establishments 381.06015
Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank 381.06016
Umbilical cord blood awareness 381.7351
Short title 381.7352
Legislative intent 381.7353
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap grant program 381.7354
Eligibility 381.7355
Project requirements 381.7356
Local matching funds 381.7395
Legislative intent 381.8531
Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research 381.9312
Uterine fibroid research database 381.9315
Gynecologic and ovarian cancer education and awareness 381.9855
Dr. and Mrs. Alfonse and Kathleen Cinotti Health Care Screening and Services Grant Program 381.40195
Donated Dental Services Program 381.92201
Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements

Current through Fall 2025

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