Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1240
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/15/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services
       (Calatayud) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 118 and 119
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Paragraph (i) of subsection (2) of section
    6  394.463, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         394.463 Involuntary examination.—
    8         (2) INVOLUNTARY EXAMINATION.—
    9         (i) One of the following must occur within 24 12 hours
   10  after the patient’s attending physician documents that the
   11  patient’s medical condition has stabilized or that an emergency
   12  medical condition does not exist:
   13         1. The patient must be examined by a facility and released;
   14  or
   15         2. The patient must be accepted for transfer transferred to
   16  a designated facility in which appropriate medical treatment is
   17  available. However, the facility must be notified of the
   18  transfer within 2 hours after the patient’s condition has been
   19  stabilized or after determination that an emergency medical
   20  condition does not exist.
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   22  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   23  And the title is amended as follows:
   24         Delete line 12
   25  and insert:
   26         experience; amending s. 394.463, F.S.; revising the
   27         timeframe within which a receiving facility must take
   28         certain actions after the attending physician of a
   29         patient being involuntarily examined documents certain
   30         information about the patient’s medical condition;
   31         revising a required action; amending s. 394.4655,
   32         F.S.; providing