{"id":142809,"date":"2026-02-04T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142809\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:33:06","slug":"new-bill-would-require-florida-nurses-to-receive-human-trafficking-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142809\/","title":{"rendered":"New bill would require Florida nurses to receive human trafficking training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida nurses may soon need to get human trafficking training to work in the state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A House committee unanimously approved a bill requiring nurses to complete a course on human trafficking to receive their initial license. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This expands a current law that requires nurses to complete the course for license renewal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-center article-text\">More Florida politics:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida has one of the highest counts of human trafficking in the country. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bill sponsor Robin Bartleman, D-Weston, talked about the implementation of the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s a lapse in training, so what\u2019s happening is nurses are entering the workforce without training and that\u2019s a missed opportunity to save lives,\u201d Bartleman said. \u201cSo, all this bill does is require a two-hour training before licensure and subsequently at each renewal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bill is also moving in the Senate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; Florida nurses may soon need to get human trafficking training to work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69265,28,30,29,15596,69266,34468,19365,26766],"class_list":["post-142809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-curent-law","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-human-trafficking","tag-license-renewal","tag-nurses","tag-robin-bartleman","tag-state-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}