HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2156
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Representative(s) Mealor offered the following:
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17 Section 5. Subsection (2) of section 765.1103, Florida
18 Statutes, is amended to read:
19 765.1103 Pain management and palliative care.--
20 (2) Health care providers and practitioners regulated
21 under chapter 458, chapter 459, or chapter 464 must, as
22 appropriate, comply with a request for pain management or
23 palliative care from a patient under their care or, for an
24 incapacitated patient under their care, from a surrogate,
25 proxy, guardian, or other representative permitted to make
26 health care decisions for the incapacitated patient.
27 Facilities regulated under chapter 400 or chapter 395 must
28 comply with the pain management or palliative care measures
29 ordered by the patient's physician. When the patient is
30 receiving care as an admitted patient of a facility or a
31 provider or is a subscriber of a health care facility, health
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2156
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
1 care provider, or health care practitioner regulated under
2 chapter 395, chapter 400, chapter 458, chapter 459, chapter
3 464, or chapter 641, such facility, provider, or practitioner
4 must, when appropriate, comply with a request for pain
5 management or palliative care from a capacitated patient or an
6 incapacitated patient's health care surrogate or proxy,
7 court-appointed guardian as provided in chapter 744, or
8 attorney in fact as provided in chapter 709. The
9 court-appointed guardian or attorney in fact must have been
10 delegated authority to make health care decisions on behalf of
11 the patient.
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15 And the title is amended as follows:
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19 amending s. 765.1103, F.S.; directing certain
20 health care providers and practitioners to
21 comply with a request for pain management or
22 palliative care from a patient under certain
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