Senate Bill 1182

    Florida Senate - 1999                                  SB 1182

    By Senator Silver





    38-1010A-99

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to medical treatment of violent

  3         wounds; amending s. 790.24, F.S.; requiring

  4         medical personnel to report life-threatening

  5         wounds to the sheriff; providing penalties;

  6         providing an effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Section 790.24, Florida Statutes, is

11  amended to read:

12         790.24  Report of medical treatment of gunshot wounds;

13  penalty for failure to report.--Any physician, nurse, or

14  employee thereof and any employee of a hospital, sanitarium,

15  clinic, or nursing home knowingly treating any person

16  suffering from a gunshot wound or other life-threatening wound

17  indicating an act of violence, or receiving a request for such

18  treatment, shall report the same immediately to the sheriff's

19  department of the county in which said treatment is

20  administered or request therefor received.  Any such person

21  willfully failing to report such treatment or request therefor

22  is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as

23  provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Requires medical personnel to report to the sheriff the
      treatment of or request of treatment for a
29    life-threatening wound that indicates an act of violence.

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