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2023 Florida Statutes (including 2023C)
Chapter 381
PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 381
PUBLIC HEALTH: GENERAL PROVISIONS
381.001
Public health system.
381.0011
Duties and powers of the Department of Health.
381.0012
Enforcement authority.
381.0016
County and municipal regulations and ordinances.
381.0018
Application for and acceptance of gifts or grants.
381.0019
Disposition of equipment and material; transfers to county health departments.
381.002
Grant of title to prescriptive medical personal property to client.
381.0021
Client welfare accounts.
381.0022
Sharing confidential or exempt information.
381.003
Communicable disease and AIDS prevention and control.
381.0031
Epidemiological research; report of diseases of public health significance to department.
381.00315
Public health advisories; public health emergencies; isolation and quarantines.
381.00316
Discrimination by governmental and business entities based on health care choices; prohibition.
381.00317
Private employer COVID-19 vaccination mandates prohibited.
381.00318
Complaints and investigations regarding mandate prohibitions; public records exemption.
381.00319
Prohibition on mask mandates and vaccination and testing mandates for educational institutions.
381.00321
The right of medical conscience of health care providers and health care payors.
381.00322
International health organization policies.
381.0034
Requirement for instruction on HIV and AIDS.
381.0035
Educational course on HIV and AIDS; employees and clients of certain health care facilities.
381.0038
Education; sterile needle and syringe exchange programs.
381.0039
Oversight of AIDS education programs.
381.004
HIV testing.
381.0041
Donation and transfer of human tissue; testing requirements.
381.0042
Patient care for persons with HIV infection.
381.0043
Blood Donor Protection Act; blood and blood component donors; confidentiality.
381.0045
Targeted outreach for pregnant women.
381.0046
Statewide HIV and AIDS prevention campaign.
381.005
Primary and preventive health services.
381.0051
Family planning.
381.0052
Dental health.
381.0053
Comprehensive nutrition program.
381.0055
Confidentiality and quality assurance activities.
381.0056
School health services program.
381.0057
Funding for school health services.
381.0059
Background screening requirements for school health services personnel.
381.00591
Department of Health; National Environmental Laboratory accreditation; application.
381.00593
Public school volunteer health care practitioner program.
381.006
Environmental health.
381.0061
Administrative fines.
381.0062
Supervision; private and certain public water systems.
381.0063
Drinking water funds.
381.0064
Continuing education program for installation and use of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems.
381.0065
Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; regulation.
381.00651
Periodic evaluation and assessment of onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems.
381.00655
Connection of existing onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems to central sewerage system; requirements.
381.0066
Onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems; fees.
381.0067
Corrective orders; private and certain public water systems and onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems.
381.0072
Food service protection.
381.0075
Regulation of body-piercing salons.
381.00771
Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.00771-381.00791.
381.00773
Application of ss. 381.00771-381.00791; exemption.
381.00775
Tattoo artists; licensure; registration of guest tattoo artists.
381.00777
Tattoo establishments; licensure; temporary establishments.
381.00779
Practice requirements.
381.00781
Fees; disposition.
381.00783
Grounds for discipline; administrative penalties.
381.00785
Criminal penalties.
381.00787
Tattooing prohibited; penalty.
381.00789
Rulemaking.
381.00791
Local laws and ordinances.
381.008
Definitions of terms used in ss. 381.008-381.00897.
381.0081
Permit required to operate a migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing; penalties for unlawful establishment or operation; allocation of proceeds.
381.0082
Application for permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.
381.0083
Permit for migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.
381.0084
Application fees for migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing.
381.0085
Revocation of permit to operate migrant labor camp or residential migrant housing.
381.0086
Rules; variances; penalties.
381.0087
Enforcement; citations.
381.0088
Right of entry.
381.00893
Complaints by aggrieved parties.
381.00895
Prohibited acts; application.
381.00896
Nondiscrimination.
381.00897
Access to migrant labor camps and residential migrant housing.
381.009
Toilets required by department regulations; charge for use of prohibited.
381.0098
Biomedical waste.
381.0101
Environmental health professionals.
381.0201
Technical and support services.
381.0202
Laboratory services.
381.0203
Pharmacy services.
381.02035
Canadian Prescription Drug Importation Program.
381.0204
Vital statistics.
381.0205
Emergency medical services.
381.026
Florida Patient’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
381.0261
Summary of patient’s bill of rights; distribution; penalty.
381.028
Adverse medical incidents.
381.0303
Special needs shelters.
381.0402
Area health education center network.
381.0405
Office of Rural Health.
381.0406
Rural health networks.
381.04065
Rural health network cooperative agreements.
381.0601
Self-derived and directed-donor blood programs.
381.06014
Blood establishments.
381.06015
Public Cord Blood Tissue Bank.
381.06016
Umbilical cord blood awareness.
381.4018
Physician workforce assessment and development.
381.4019
Dental Student Loan Repayment Program.
381.40195
Donated Dental Services Program.
381.735
Office of Minority Health and Health Equity.
381.7351
Short title; Closing the Gap Act.
381.7352
Legislative intent.
381.7353
Reducing Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: Closing the Gap grant program; administration; department duties.
381.7354
Eligibility.
381.7355
Project requirements; review criteria.
381.7356
Local matching funds; grant awards.
381.739
Short title; Charlie Mack Overstreet Brain or Spinal Cord Injuries Act.
381.7395
Legislative intent.
381.74
Establishment and maintenance of a central registry.
381.745
Definitions; ss. 381.739-381.79.
381.75
Duties and responsibilities of the department.
381.755
Benefits not assignable.
381.76
Eligibility for the brain and spinal cord injury program.
381.765
Retention of title to and disposal of equipment.
381.775
Applicant and recipient records; confidential and privileged.
381.78
Advisory council on brain and spinal cord injuries.
381.785
Recovery of third-party payments for funded services.
381.79
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Program Trust Fund.
381.815
Sickle-cell program.
381.82
Ed and Ethel Moore Alzheimer’s Disease Research Program.
381.825
Education and public awareness relating to Alzheimer’s disease and related forms of dementia.
381.84
Comprehensive Statewide Tobacco Education and Use Prevention Program.
381.853
Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research.
381.8531
Florida Center for Brain Tumor Research; public records exemption.
381.86
Institutional Review Board.
381.875
Enhanced potential pandemic pathogen research prohibited.
381.88
Emergency allergy treatment.
381.885
Epinephrine auto-injectors; emergency administration.
381.887
Emergency treatment for suspected opioid overdose.
381.89
Regulation of tanning facilities.
381.895
Standards for compressed air used for recreational diving.
381.91
Jessie Trice Cancer Prevention Program.
381.911
Prostate Cancer Awareness Program.
381.915
Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program.
381.922
William G. "Bill" Bankhead, Jr., and David Coley Cancer Research Program.
381.92201
Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements; peer review panels.
381.925
Cancer Center of Excellence Award.
381.93
Breast and cervical cancer early detection program.
381.931
Annual report on Medicaid expenditures.
381.9312
Uterine fibroid research database; education and public awareness.
381.9315
Gynecologic and ovarian cancer education and awareness.
381.932
Breast cancer early detection and treatment referral program.
381.933
Mammography reports.
381.95
Medical facility information maintained for terrorism response purposes; confidentiality.
381.96
Pregnancy support and wellness services.
381.98
The Florida Public Health Institute, Inc.; establishment; purpose; mission; duties; board of directors.
381.981
Health awareness campaigns.
381.982
Short title.
381.983
Definitions.
381.984
Educational programs.
381.985
Screening program.
381.986
Medical use of marijuana.
381.987
Public records exemption for personal identifying information relating to medical marijuana held by the department.
381.988
Medical marijuana testing laboratories; marijuana tests conducted by a certified laboratory.
381.989
Public education campaigns.
381.99
Rare Disease Advisory Council.