Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 588 Ì970258=Î970258 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: RCS . 04/17/2017 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Criminal Justice (Passidomo) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete lines 60 - 85 4 and insert: 5 Section 2. Subsection (6) of section 395.1041, Florida 6 Statutes, is amended to read: 7 395.1041 Access to emergency services and care.— 8 (6) RIGHTS OF PERSONS BEING TREATED.— 9 (a) A hospital providing emergency services and care to a 10 person who is being involuntarily examined under the provisions 11 of s. 394.463 shall adhere to the rights of patients specified 12 in part I of chapter 394 and the involuntary examination 13 procedures provided in s. 394.463, regardless of whether the 14 hospital, or any part thereof, is designated as a receiving or 15 treatment facility under part I of chapter 394 and regardless of 16 whether the person is admitted to the hospital. 17 (b) Each hospital with an emergency department shall 18 develop a best practices policy to promote the prevention of 19 unintentional drug overdoses. The policy may include, but is not 20 limited to: 21 1. A process to obtain the patient’s consent to notify the 22 patient’s next of kin, and each physician or health care 23 practitioner who prescribed a controlled substance to the 24 patient, regarding the patient’s overdose, her or his location, 25 and the nature of the substance or controlled substance involved 26 in the overdose. 27 2. A process for providing the patient or the patient’s 28 next of kin with information about licensed substance abuse 29 treatment services, voluntary admission procedures under part IV 30 of chapter 397, involuntary admission procedures under part V of 31 chapter 397, and involuntary commitment procedures under chapter 32 394. 33 3. Guidelines for emergency department health care 34 practitioners authorized to prescribe controlled substances to 35 reduce the risk of opioid use, misuse, and addiction. 36 4. The use of licensed or certified behavioral health 37 professionals or peer specialists in the emergency department to 38 encourage the patient to seek substance abuse treatment. 39 5. The use of Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral 40 to Treatment protocols in the emergency department. 41 Section 3. Section 401.253, Florida Statutes, is created to 42 read: 43 401.253 Reporting of controlled substance overdoses.— 44 (1)(a) A basic life support service or advanced life 45 support service that treats and releases, or transports to a 46 medical facility, a person in response to an emergency call for 47 a suspected or actual overdose of a controlled substance may 48 report such incidents to the department. Such reports must be 49 made using the Emergency Medical Services Tracking and Reporting 50 System, or other appropriate method with secure access, 51 including, but not limited to, the Washington/Baltimore High 52 Intensity Drug Trafficking Area’s Overdose Detection Mapping 53 Application Program or other program identified by the 54 department in rule. If a basic life support service or advanced 55 life support service reports such incidents, it shall use best 56 efforts to make the report to the department within 120 hours. 57 (b) The data collected by the department shall be made 58 available within 120 hours to law enforcement, public health, 59 fire rescue, and emergency medical service agencies in each 60 county. 61 (c) For purposes of this section, the term “overdose” 62 means: 63 1. A condition, including, but not limited to, extreme 64 physical illness, decreased level of consciousness, respiratory 65 depression, coma, or death resulting from the consumption or use 66 of any controlled substance which requires medical attention, 67 assistance, or treatment; or 68 2. Clinical suspicion of drug 69 70 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 71 And the title is amended as follows: 72 Delete line 3 73 and insert: 74 legislative findings and intent; amending s. 395.1041, 75 F.S.; requiring a hospital with an emergency 76 department to develop a best practices policy to 77 promote the prevention of unintentional drug 78 overdoses; authorizing the policy to include certain 79 processes, guidelines, uses of professionals or 80 specialists, and protocols; creating s. 401.253