Annual Report and Long-Range Plan | Fiscal Year 2022-23 8 ABOUT MQA Purpose While the regulatory landscape is complex and ever-changing, the primary purpose of MQA remains consistent: to protect health care consumers. Section 456.003, Florida Statutes, provides MQA with the authority to regulate. It is the Legislature’s intent that health care professions should be regulated for the preservation of the health, safety, and welfare of the public and such professions should be regulated when: a) Their unregulated practice can harm or endanger the health, safety, and welfare of the public, and when the potential for such harm is recognizable and clearly outweighs any anticompetitive impact which may result from regulation. b) The public is not effectively protected by other means, including, but not limited to, other state statutes, local ordinances, or federal legislation. c) Less restrictive means of regulation are not available.
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