Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 950
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/10/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Grimsley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 126 - 185
    4  and insert:
    5         (d) “Quarantine” means the separation of an asymptomatic
    6  individual or a premises reasonably believed to have been
    7  exposed to a communicable disease from individuals who have not
    8  been exposed to the disease to prevent its possible spread.
    9         (2) Individuals who assist the State Health Officer at his
   10  or her request on a volunteer basis during a public health
   11  emergency are entitled to the benefits specified in s.
   12  110.504(2), (3), (4), and (5).
   13         (3) To facilitate effective emergency management, when the
   14  United States Department of Health and Human Services contracts
   15  for the manufacture and delivery of licensable products in
   16  response to a public health emergency and the terms of those
   17  contracts are made available to the states, the department shall
   18  accept funds provided by counties, municipalities, and other
   19  entities designated in the state emergency management plan
   20  required under s. 252.35(2)(a) for the purpose of participation
   21  in those contracts. The department shall deposit those funds in
   22  the Grants and Donations Trust Fund and expend those funds on
   23  behalf of the donor county, municipality, or other entity for
   24  the purchase of the licensable products made available under the
   25  contract.
   26         (4) The department has the duty and the authority to
   27  declare, enforce, modify, and abolish the isolation or
   28  quarantine quarantines of persons, animals, and premises as the
   29  circumstances indicate for controlling communicable diseases or
   30  providing protection from unsafe conditions that pose a threat
   31  to public health, except as provided in ss. 384.28 and 392.545
   32  392.60. Any order the department issues pursuant to this
   33  subsection is immediately enforceable by a law enforcement
   34  officer under s. 381.0012.
   35         (5) The department shall adopt rules to specify the
   36  conditions and procedures for imposing and lifting an order for
   37  isolation or and releasing a quarantine. The rules must include
   38  provisions related to:
   39         (a) The closure of premises.
   40         (b) The movement of persons or animals exposed to or
   41  infected with a communicable disease.
   42         (c) The tests or treatment, including vaccination, for
   43  communicable disease required prior to employment or admission
   44  to the premises or to comply with an isolation or a quarantine
   45  order.
   46         (d) Testing or destruction of animals with or suspected of
   47  having a disease transmissible to humans.
   48         (e) Access by the department to persons in isolation or
   49  quarantine or to premises housing persons in isolation or in
   50  quarantine quarantined premises.
   51         (f) The disinfection of isolated or quarantined animals,
   52  persons, or premises.
   53         (g) Methods of isolation or quarantine.
   54         (6) The rules adopted under this section and actions taken
   55  by the department pursuant to a declared public health
   56  emergency, isolation, or quarantine shall supersede all rules
   57  enacted by other state departments, boards or commissions, and
   58  ordinances and regulations enacted by political subdivisions of
   59  the state. Any person who violates any rule adopted under this
   60  section, any order of isolation or quarantine, or any
   61  requirement adopted by the department pursuant to a declared
   62  public health emergency, commits a misdemeanor of the second
   63  degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.
   64         Section 3. The Legislature finds that this act fulfills an
   65  important state interest by providing measures for the control
   66  of communicable diseases and the protection of public health.
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   69  And the title is amended as follows:
   70         Between lines 14 and 15
   71  insert:
   72         providing a legislative finding of important state
   73         interest;