Florida Senate - 2015 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 758 Ì209192/Î209192 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 03/04/2015 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Health Policy (Galvano) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment 2 3 Delete lines 63 - 94 4 and insert: 5 prescribing authorized health care practitioner or his or her 6 agent. The patient or caregiver who has an opioid antagonist 7 prescription may store and possess an approved opioid 8 antagonist. In an emergency situation when a physician or other 9 authorized health care practitioner is not immediately 10 available, any patient or caregiver who has received emergency 11 overdose treatment information may administer the opioid 12 antagonist to a person believed in good faith to be experiencing 13 an opioid overdose, regardless of whether that person has a 14 prescription for an opioid antagonist. 15 (4) An authorized health care practitioner may, directly or 16 by standing order, prescribe and dispense opioid antagonists to 17 first responders, as defined in s. 112.1815, and such first 18 responders may possess, store, and administer approved opioid 19 antagonists as prescribed and clinically indicated, and in 20 accordance with the policies of the employer of such first 21 responders. 22 (5) Any person, including an authorized health care 23 practitioner, a dispensing health care practitioner, a 24 pharmacist, or a first responder, as defined in s. 112.1815, who 25 possesses,