TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Though Gov. Rick Scott wants to require nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have generators and enough fuel to cool their buildings for 96 hours if they loose power, legislative leaders did not publicly commit to supporting such a mandate.
Senate President Joe Negron did not directly answer a question Thursday about whether the Senate would sign off during the upcoming 2018 legislative session on the requirements that nursing homes and assisted living facilities have generators.
The generator issue stems from the deaths of residents of a sweltering Broward County nursing home after Hurricane Irma.
Eight residents of the rehabilitation center at Hollywood Hills died three days after Irma knocked out the facility's air-conditioning system.
Six more residents died later after evacuation.
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