Senate Bill 1182e1

    SB 1182                                        First Engrossed



  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         injuries 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 certain gunshot

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

14  or employee thereof and any employee of a hospital,

15  sanitarium, clinic, or nursing home knowingly treating any

16  person suffering from a gunshot wound or life-threatening

17  injury other wound indicating an act of violence, or receiving

18  a request for such treatment, shall report the same

19  immediately to the sheriff's department of the county in which

20  said treatment is administered or request therefor received.

21  This section does not affect any requirement that a person has

22  to report abuse pursuant to chapter 39 or chapter 415. Any

23  such person willfully failing to report such treatment or

24  request therefor is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first

25  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

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

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