Florida Statute 468.808 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 468
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

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468.808 Support personnel.—A person must be licensed to practice orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics in this state. However, a licensed orthotist, prosthetist, or pedorthist may delegate duties, not to include patient evaluation, treatment formulation, or the final fitting of a device prior to patient use, to nonlicensed support personnel. All other delegated duties must be performed under the supervision, as defined by the board by rule, of a licensed orthotist, prosthetist, or pedorthist, and the persons acting as support personnel must be identified as such by wearing an identification tag as defined by the board by rule. In such instances the supervising licensee is responsible for all acts performed by such persons.

History.—s. 9, ch. 97-284; s. 7, ch. 2008-121.

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Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc. v. Dep't of Health, Bd. of Orthotists & Prosthetists, 948 So. 2d 980 (Fla. 1st DCA 2007).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 2358, 2007 WL 516131

...The responsible licensed practitioner must at all times be accessible by two way communication, enabling the supervisor to respond to questions relating to the repair. 31 Fla. Admin. W. 3081-82 (Sept. 2, 2005). The Legislature employed the term “direct supervision” in section 468.808, Florida Statutes (2005): Support personnel....

...The Board’s proposed rule also does not enlarge, modify, or contravene the Legislature’s requirement that unlicensed professionals be given direct supervision. The Legislature has mandated that licensed professionals directly supervise the work they delegate to unlicensed support staff. See § 468.808, Fla....