Senate Bill sb2070

    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 2070

    By Senator Saunders





    25-346A-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to final disposition of a body;

  3         amending s. 470.002, F.S.; redefining the term

  4         "legally authorized person" for purposes of ch.

  5         470, F.S.; providing an effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Subsection (18) of section 470.002, Florida

10  Statutes, is amended to read:

11         470.002  Definitions.--As used in this chapter:

12         (18)  "Legally authorized person" means, in the

13  priority listed, the decedent, when written inter vivos

14  authorizations and directions are provided by the decedent,

15  the surviving spouse, unless the spouse has been arrested for

16  committing against the deceased an act of violence as defined

17  in s. 471.28(1), son or daughter who is 18 years of age or

18  older, parent, brother or sister 18 years of age or over,

19  grandchild who is 18 years of age or older, or grandparent; or

20  any person in the next degree of kinship. In addition, the

21  term may include, if no family exists or is available, the

22  following: the guardian of the dead person at the time of

23  death; the personal representative of the deceased; the

24  attorney in fact of the dead person at the time of death; the

25  health surrogate of the dead person at the time of death; a

26  public health officer; the medical examiner, county commission

27  or administrator acting under chapter 245, or other public

28  administrator; a representative of a nursing home or other

29  health care institution in charge of final disposition; or a

30  friend or other person not listed in this subsection who is

31  willing to assume the responsibility as authorized person.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 2070
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  1         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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  4                          SENATE SUMMARY

  5    Redefines the term "legally authorized person," for
      purpose of final disposition of a body, to exclude the
  6    spouse of a deceased when the spouse has been arrested
      for committing against the deceased an act of domestic
  7    violence.

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