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HB 2131: End-of-life Care

GENERAL BILL by Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care ; Argenziano ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Heyman ; Sobel ; Reddick ; Fiorentino ; Bilirakis ; Littlefield ; Kosmas ; Bitner ; Jacobs ; Levine ; Bloom

End-of-life Care; authorizes personnel of hospital emergency services, long-term care facilities, assisted living facilities, home health agencies, hospices, & adult family-care homes to withhold or withdraw cardiopulmonary resuscitation pursuant to order not to resuscitate; revises authority of EMTs & paramedics to withhold or withdraw resuscitation or life-prolonging techniques; revises procedure for making living will, etc. Amends FS. APPROPRIATION: $100,000.

Effective Date: 10/01/1999 except as otherwise provided
 Last Action: 4/30/1999 House - Died on Calendar, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331)
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  • Bill History

    Date Chamber Action
    4/6/1999 House • Filed; Introduced -HJ 00502
    4/8/1999 House • Referred to Judiciary (CJC); Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC) -HJ 00548
    4/13/1999 House • On Committee agenda-- Judiciary (CJC), 04/15/99, 1:30 pm, Morris Hall
    4/15/1999 House • Comm. Action: Unanimously Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by Judiciary (CJC) -HJ 00750
    4/19/1999 House • Now in Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC) -HJ 00750
    4/21/1999 House • Withdrawn from Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC) -HJ 00673; Placed on calendar, available for General Calendar
    4/22/1999 House • Placed on Special Order Calendar
    4/23/1999 House • Placed on Special Order Calendar; Temporarily postponed, on Second Reading -HJ 01089
    4/30/1999 House • Died on Calendar, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331)

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  • HB 2131, Original Filed Version (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/28/2000 at 9:27 AM

    Bill Text:   Web Page | PDF
    Analyses:   Judiciary (Post-Meeting) 4/15/1999 (pdf)
    Judiciary (Post-Meeting) 4/16/1999 (pdf)
    Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (Post-Meeting) 4/6/1999 (pdf)
    Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (Post-Meeting) 7/27/1999 (pdf)

    Related Bills (5)

    Bill Number Subject Filed By Relationship Last Action and Location
    H 343 End-of-life Care Similar Last Action: 3/10/1999 H Withdrawn from Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Health Care Services (HFC); Health & Human Services Appropriations (FRC); Withdrawn from further cons.,Iden/Sim/Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331) -HJ 00286
    Location:
    S 2228 (e1) Klein Similar Last Action: 6/11/1999 Approved by Governor; Chapter No. 99-331
    Location:
    H 249 Health Care Advance Directives Heyman Compare Last Action: 4/30/1999 H Died in Committee on Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC), Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331)
    Location:
    S 1240 Health Care Advance Directives Brown-Waite Compare Last Action: 4/30/1999 S Died in Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331)
    Location:
    S 1722 Assisted Living Facilities Clary Compare Last Action: 3/30/1999 S Withdrawn from Health, Aging and Long-Term Care; Fiscal Policy -SJ 00372; Withdrawn from further cons.,Iden/Sim/Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to CS/CS/SB 2228 (Ch. 99-331) -SJ 00372
    Location:

    Committee Amendments (1)

    Amendment Sponsor Filed Last Committee Action Format
    981359 - Amendment
    		Judiciary 4/23/1999
    3:52 AM     		Web Page
    PDF

    Floor Amendments (2)

    Amendment Sponsor Filed Last Floor Action Format
    hierarchy 114331 - Amendment to Amendment (981359)
    		Argenziano 4/22/1999
    11:08 AM     		Web Page
    PDF
    hierarchy 945267 - Amendment to Amendment (981359)
    		Argenziano 4/22/1999
    11:22 AM     		Web Page
    PDF

    Citations - Statutes (34)

    Citation Catchline Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
    395.1041 Access to emergency services and care.
    400.142 Emergency medication kits.
    400.4255 Use of licensed personnel.
    400.487 Patient assessment; establishment and review of plan of care; provision of services.
    400.6095 Patient admission; assessment; plan of care; discharge; death.
    400.621 Rules and standards relating to adult family-care homes.
    401.45 Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability.
    455.604 Requirement for instruction for certain licensees on human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
    458.319 Renewal of license.
    459.008 Renewal of licenses and certificates.
    732.912 Persons who may make an anatomical gift.
    732.914 Manner of executing anatomical gifts.
    732.917 Rights and duties at death.
    732.922 Duty of certain hospital administrators; liability of hospital administrators, organ procurement organizations, eye banks, and tissue banks.
    765.101 Definitions.
    765.102 Legislative findings and intent.
    765.103 Existing advance directives.
    765.104 Revocation.
    765.107 Construction.
    765.110 Health care facilities and providers; discipline.
    765.1105
    765.1115
    765.204 Capacity of principal; procedure.
    765.205 Responsibility of the surrogate.
    765.301 Short title.
    765.302 Procedure for making a living will; notice to physician.
    765.303 Suggested form of a living will.
    765.304 Procedure for living will.
    765.305 Procedure in absence of a living will.
    765.306 Determination of patient condition.
    765.308 Transfer of a patient.
    765.310 Falsification, forgery, or willful concealment, cancellation, or destruction of declaration or revocation; penalties.
    765.401 The proxy.
    765.404

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