Fla. Stat. 945.6031
Required reports and surveys

(1)

Not less than annually, the authority shall report to the Governor and the Legislature the status of the Department of Corrections’ health care delivery system. The report must include, but need not be limited to:Recommendations regarding cost containment measures the Department of Corrections could implement; andRecommendations regarding performance and financial audits of the Department of Corrections’ Office of Health Services.

(a)

Recommendations regarding cost containment measures the Department of Corrections could implement; and

(b)

Recommendations regarding performance and financial audits of the Department of Corrections’ Office of Health Services.

(2)

The authority shall conduct surveys of the physical and mental health care system at each correctional institution at least triennially and shall report the survey findings for each institution to the Secretary of Corrections.

(3)

Deficiencies found by the authority to be life-threatening or otherwise serious shall be immediately reported to the Secretary of Corrections. The Department of Corrections shall take immediate action to correct life-threatening or otherwise serious deficiencies identified by the authority and within 3 calendar days file a written corrective action plan with the authority indicating the actions that will be taken to address the deficiencies. Within 60 calendar days following a survey, the authority shall submit a report to the Secretary of Corrections indicating deficiencies found at the institution.

(4)

Within 30 calendar days after the receipt of a survey report from the authority, the Department of Corrections shall file a written corrective action plan with the authority, indicating the actions which will be taken to address deficiencies determined by the authority to exist at an institution. Each plan shall set forth an estimate of the time and resources needed to correct identified deficiencies.

(5)

The authority shall monitor the Department of Corrections’ implementation of corrective actions which have been taken at each institution to address deficiencies related to the Department of Corrections’ provision of physical and mental health care services found to exist by the authority.

(6)

Failure of the Department of Corrections to file a corrective action plan or to timely implement the provisions of a corrective action plan correcting identified deficiencies may result in the initiation of the dispute resolution procedures by the authority pursuant to s. 945.6035.

Source: Section 945.6031 — Required reports and surveys, https://www.­flsenate.­gov/Laws/Statutes/2024/0945.­6031 (accessed Aug. 7, 2025).

945.01
Definitions 945.04
Department of Corrections 945.10
Confidential information 945.12
Transfers for rehabilitative treatment 945.25
Records 945.025
Jurisdiction of department 945.27
Proceedings by department 945.28
Selection of probation or parole offices by the department 945.31
Restitution and other payments 945.35
Requirement for education on human immunodeficiency virus, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, and other communicable diseases 945.035
Notice of employment, appointment, or separation 945.36
Law enforcement personnel authorized to conduct drug tests on inmates and releasees 945.40
Corrections Mental Health Act 945.041
Reports 945.41
Legislative intent of ss 945.42
Definitions 945.43
Placement of inmate in a mental health treatment facility 945.043
Department-operated day care services 945.44
Emergency placement of inmate in a mental health treatment facility 945.45
Continued placement of inmates in mental health treatment facilities 945.46
Initiation of involuntary placement proceedings with respect to a mentally ill inmate scheduled for release 945.47
Discharge of inmate from mental health treatment 945.047
Licensing requirements for physicians, osteopathic physicians, and chiropractic physicians employed by the department 945.48
Rights of inmates provided mental health treatment 945.49
Operation and administration 945.71
Inmate training programs 945.72
Eligibility and screening of inmates 945.73
Inmate training program operation 945.74
Implementation 945.091
Extension of the limits of confinement 945.092
Limits on work-release and minimum security custody for persons who have committed the crime of escape 945.215
Inmate welfare and employee benefit trust funds 945.0311
Employment of relatives 945.355
HIV testing of inmates prior to release 945.601
Correctional Medical Authority 945.602
State of Florida Correctional Medical Authority 945.603
Powers and duties of authority 945.604
Medical claims 945.0913
Inmates prohibited from driving state-owned vehicles to transport inmates in a work-release program 945.2151
Verifying social security numbers 945.6031
Required reports and surveys 945.6032
Quality management program requirements 945.6033
Continuing contracts with health care providers 945.6034
Minimum health care standards 945.6035
Dispute resolution 945.6036
Enforcement 945.6037
Nonemergency health care 945.6038
Inmate litigation costs 945.6041
Inmate medical services 945.21501
Employee Benefit Trust Fund 945.21503
Federal Grants Trust Fund

Current through Fall 2025

§ 945.6031. Required reports & surveys's source at flsenate​.gov