Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1580
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/20/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Trumbull) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (206378) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 153 - 165
    5  and insert:
    6  papers, documents, and other evidence. The Department of Legal
    7  Affairs may adopt rules to implement this subsection.
    8         (5) IMMUNITY FROM LIABILITY.—A health care provider or
    9  health care payor may not be held civilly liable solely for
   10  declining to participate in or pay for a health care service on
   11  the basis of a conscience-based objection. However, this section
   12  does not limit a person′s ability to recover damages or other
   13  relief under any other applicable law due to behavior that
   14  constitutes a violation of this section or that is not related
   15  to a conscience-based objection.
   16         (6) REQUIREMENT TO PROVIDE EMERGENCY MEDICAL TREATMENT.
   17  This section may not be construed to override any requirement to
   18  provide emergency medical treatment in accordance with state law
   19  or the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, 42
   20  U.S.C. s. 1395dd.
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   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 233
   25  and insert:
   26         complaints; authorizing the Department of Legal
   27         Affairs to adopt rules; providing health care
   28         providers and health