Senate Bill sb0112c1

    Florida Senate - 2007                            CS for SB 112

    By the Committee on Health Regulation; and Senator Hill





    588-1912-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to electroconvulsive therapy

  3         and psychosurgical procedures; requiring the

  4         Department of Health to compile data on the

  5         frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

  6         therapy and psychosurgery procedures on

  7         children; providing criteria for the data;

  8         requiring the department to report the data to

  9         the Legislature; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  The Department of Health shall compile data

14  concerning the frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

15  therapy and psychosurgery procedures on children under 18

16  years of age in this state. The data shall include the

17  severity of the illness requiring these procedures, any

18  adverse events resulting from the procedures, the efficacy of

19  the procedures, the number of these procedures performed over

20  a 3-year period in this state, the age of the children, and

21  the informed-consent process of each procedure. The department

22  shall report this data to the President of the Senate and the

23  Speaker of the House of Representatives.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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26          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
27                         Senate Bill 112

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29  The committee substitute requires the Department of Health to
    compile certain data regarding the frequency and usage of
30  electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery procedures on
    children in Florida rather than prohibit the administration of
31  electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery on persons younger
    than 18 years of age.
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