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| 3 | 3 | | HB 1053 2023 |
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| 7 | 7 | | CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. |
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| 10 | 10 | | F L O R I D A H O U S E O F R E P R E S E N T A T I V E S |
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| 14 | 14 | | A bill to be entitled 1 |
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| 15 | 15 | | An act relating to organ donation; providing a short 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | title; amending s. 395.2050, F.S.; requiring the 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | Department of Health to adopt rules to streamline 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | medical testing and transfer medical records for 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | certain entities; providing an effective date. 6 |
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| 21 | 21 | | WHEREAS, Nancy Whited suffered from polycystic kidney 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | disease and scleroderma, her declining kidney function required 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | her to have kidney dialysis and eventually a kidney transplant, 10 |
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| 24 | 24 | | and 11 |
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| 25 | 25 | | WHEREAS, unfortunately Nancy was removed from the kidney 12 |
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| 26 | 26 | | transplant list due to complications from an error in a 13 |
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| 27 | 27 | | prescribed medication that affected her bone marrow, and 14 |
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| 28 | 28 | | WHEREAS, despite her reluctance to ask, several individuals 15 |
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| 29 | 29 | | stepped forward as live donor candidates for Nancy, leaving two 16 |
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| 30 | 30 | | candidates as perfect matches, and 17 |
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| 31 | 31 | | WHEREAS, as one donor seemingly became lost in the 18 |
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| 32 | 32 | | paperwork process, the other donors moved further in the 19 |
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| 33 | 33 | | process; however, it took nine months to get the tests 20 |
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| 34 | 34 | | scheduled, and 21 |
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| 35 | 35 | | WHEREAS, Nancy Whited went in for the transplant procedure 22 |
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| 36 | 36 | | but her cardiac function had decreased so significantly that the 23 |
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| 37 | 37 | | procedure caused her to go into heart failure which eventually 24 |
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| 38 | 38 | | ended her life, and 25 |
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| 40 | 40 | | HB 1053 2023 |
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| 51 | 51 | | WHEREAS, while no one can definitively state that an 26 |
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| 52 | 52 | | earlier transplant would have extended Nancy's life 27 |
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| 53 | 53 | | significantly, any reasonable person would say that a healthier 28 |
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| 54 | 54 | | organ recipient is more likely to have a better outcome, NOW, 29 |
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| 55 | 55 | | THEREFORE, 30 |
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| 57 | 57 | | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 32 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Section 1. This act may be cited as "Nancy's Law." 34 |
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| 60 | 60 | | Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 395.2050, 35 |
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| 61 | 61 | | Florida Statutes, to read: 36 |
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| 62 | 62 | | 395.2050 Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; 37 |
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| 63 | 63 | | certification for procurement act ivities; death records review. — 38 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (4) The department shall adopt rules that establish 39 |
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| 65 | 65 | | standards to streamline: 40 |
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| 66 | 66 | | (a) Medical testing of living organ donors by eliminating 41 |
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| 67 | 67 | | redundant medical testing if prior testing was done within a 42 |
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| 68 | 68 | | specific time. 43 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (b) The transfer of medical records between physicians of 44 |
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| 70 | 70 | | donors and recipients. 45 |
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| 71 | 71 | | Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023. 46 |
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