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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 voluntary nonopioid advance 2 |
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| 16 | 16 | | directive forms; creating s. 395.3042, F.S.; requiring 3 |
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| 17 | 17 | | a health care facility to create a voluntary nonopioid 4 |
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| 18 | 18 | | advance directive form; providing requirements for 5 |
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| 19 | 19 | | such form; authorizing an individual to revoke the 6 |
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| 20 | 20 | | directive for any reason by specified means; providing 7 |
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| 21 | 21 | | immunity from civil and criminal liability for health 8 |
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| 22 | 22 | | care practitioners under certain circumstance s; 9 |
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| 23 | 23 | | providing an exception; defining the term "medical 10 |
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| 24 | 24 | | emergency"; providing an effective date. 11 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 13 |
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| 28 | 28 | | Section 1. Section 395.3042, Florida Statutes, is created 15 |
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| 29 | 29 | | to read: 16 |
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| 30 | 30 | | 395.3042 Voluntary nonop ioid advance directive form. — 17 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) A health care facility shall create a voluntary 18 |
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| 32 | 32 | | nonopioid advance directive form. The form shall be available on 19 |
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| 33 | 33 | | the facility's website. The form shall indicate to a health care 20 |
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| 34 | 34 | | practitioner that an individual may not be administered or 21 |
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| 35 | 35 | | prescribed an opioid. The advance directive shall be filed in 22 |
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| 36 | 36 | | the individual's medical record in a health care facility or a 23 |
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| 37 | 37 | | private office of a health care practitioner, or both, and shall 24 |
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| 38 | 38 | | be transferred with the individual from one pract itioner to 25 |
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| 51 | 51 | | another or from one facility to another. 26 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (2) An individual may revoke the voluntary nonopioid 27 |
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| 53 | 53 | | advance directive for any reason and may do so by written or 28 |
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| 54 | 54 | | oral statement. 29 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (3) A health care practitioner without actual knowledge of 30 |
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| 56 | 56 | | an advance directive as provided in subsection (1) who 31 |
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| 57 | 57 | | administers or prescribes an opioid in a medical emergency is 32 |
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| 58 | 58 | | immune from civil or criminal liability for failing to act in 33 |
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| 59 | 59 | | accordance with the directive unless the act or omission was the 34 |
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| 60 | 60 | | result of the practitio ner's gross negligence or willful 35 |
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| 61 | 61 | | misconduct. For purposes of this section, the term "medical 36 |
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| 62 | 62 | | emergency" means an acute injury or illness that poses an 37 |
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| 63 | 63 | | immediate risk to an individual's life or long -term health. 38 |
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| 64 | 64 | | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025. 39 |
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