Florida Senate - 2025 CS for CS for SB 714 By the Committee on Fiscal Policy; the Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; and Senator Burton 594-03193-25 2025714c2 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to nonopioid advance directives; 3 amending s. 395.3042, F.S.; defining the term episode 4 of care; requiring the Agency for Health Care 5 Administration to create and post on its website a 6 voluntary nonopioid patient form; requiring each 7 health care facility to post the form on its website 8 or provide a link to the form on the agencys website; 9 providing for the filing of the form before a 10 specified episode of care; providing for revocation 11 and expiration of the form; providing an effective 12 date. 13 14 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 15 16 Section 1.Section 395.3042, Florida Statutes, is created 17 to read: 18 395.3042Voluntary nonopioid patient form. 19 (1)As used in this section, the term episode of care 20 includes all the services provided to a patient to clinically 21 treat a condition, an illness, or a procedure. 22 (2)The agency shall create and post on its website a 23 voluntary nonopioid patient form that allows a person to 24 indicate to a treating health care provider that the person 25 should not be prescribed or administered an opioid drug during 26 an episode of care. Each health care facility shall post the 27 voluntary nonopioid patient form on the facilitys website or 28 provide a link to the form on the agencys website. 29 (3)At the persons request and before a specified episode 30 of care, the form may be filed in the persons medical record in 31 a health care facility or a private office of a health care 32 practitioner who is providing pretreatment or posttreatment 33 care, or both, to the person for a specified episode of care 34 related to the form. The form serves as a persons directive 35 related to treatment using opioid drugs during the episode of 36 care at the facility or during the health care practitioners 37 pretreatment or posttreatment care. 38 (4)A person may revoke a voluntary nonopioid form for any 39 reason and may do so by written or oral statement. The form 40 expires upon the conclusion of the specified episode of care for 41 which it was filed. 42 Section 2.This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.