Senate Bill sb0112e1

    CS for CS for SB 112                     First Engrossed (ntc)



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to electroconvulsive therapy

  3         and psychosurgical procedures; requiring the

  4         Department of Health to compile data on the

  5         frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

  6         therapy and psychosurgery procedures on

  7         children; providing criteria for the data;

  8         requiring the department to report the data to

  9         the Legislature; providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  The Department of Health shall compile data

14  concerning the frequency and usage of electroconvulsive

15  therapy and psychosurgery procedures on children under 18

16  years of age in this state. The data shall include the

17  severity of the illness requiring these procedures, any

18  adverse events resulting from the procedures, the efficacy of

19  the procedures, the number of these procedures performed over

20  a 3-year period in this state, the age of the children, and

21  the informed-consent process of each procedure. The data shall

22  also include the number of these procedures performed on

23  children who are in the custody of the Department of Children

24  and Family Services. The department shall report this data to

25  the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of

26  Representatives by January 1, 2008, and annually thereafter.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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