Florida Senate - 2018                                    SB 1086
       
       
        
       By Senator Stargel
       
       
       
       
       
       22-01145-18                                           20181086__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to anatomical gifts; amending s.
    3         765.513, F.S.; authorizing a nonprofit surgical
    4         training center to become a donee of anatomical gifts
    5         for education, research, or training purposes;
    6         defining the term “nonprofit surgical training
    7         center”; prohibiting a nonprofit surgical training
    8         center from providing an anatomical gift to another
    9         facility; 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. Subsection (1) of section 765.513, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (2) of that section is
   15  republished, to read:
   16         765.513 Donees; purposes for which anatomical gifts may be
   17  made.—
   18         (1) The following persons or entities may become donees of
   19  anatomical gifts of bodies or parts of them for the purposes
   20  stated:
   21         (a) Any procurement organization or accredited medical or
   22  dental school, college, or university for education, research,
   23  therapy, or transplantation.
   24         (b) Any individual specified by name for therapy or
   25  transplantation needed by him or her.
   26         (c) The anatomical board or a nontransplant anatomical
   27  donation organization, as defined in s. 406.49, for donation of
   28  the whole body for medical or dental education or research.
   29         (d) A nonprofit surgical training center for education,
   30  research, or training.
   31         1. For purposes of this section, the term “nonprofit
   32  surgical training center” means a nonprofit facility or
   33  department, owned by a hospital licensed under chapter 395,
   34  which offers multidisciplinary learning opportunities, including
   35  continuing medical education courses.
   36         2. A nonprofit surgical training center may not provide an
   37  anatomical gift to another facility.
   38         (2) If multiple purposes are set forth in the document of
   39  gift but are not set forth in any priority order, the anatomical
   40  gift shall be used first for transplantation or therapy, if
   41  suitable. If the gift cannot be used for transplantation or
   42  therapy, the gift may be used for research or education.
   43         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.