Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1346
       
       
        
       By Senator Polsky
       
       
       
       
       
       30-00921A-25                                          20251346__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to fentanyl testing; creating s.
    3         395.1042, F.S.; providing a short title; requiring
    4         hospitals and hospital-based off-campus emergency
    5         departments to test for fentanyl as part of any urine
    6         testing they conduct to treat individuals for possible
    7         drug overdose or poisoning; requiring such facilities
    8         to perform further laboratory and toxicology
    9         screenings if the urine test results are positive for
   10         fentanyl; requiring that the results of such tests and
   11         screenings be preserved as part of the patient’s
   12         clinical record in accordance with the facility’s
   13         current recordkeeping practices; providing an
   14         effective date.
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   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Section 395.1042, Florida Statutes, is created
   19  to read:
   20         395.1042 Fentanyl testing.—
   21         (1) This section may be cited as “Gage’s Law.”
   22         (2)(a) If an individual is treated at a hospital or
   23  hospital-based off-campus emergency department for emergency
   24  services and care for a possible drug overdose or poisoning and
   25  the hospital or hospital-based off-campus emergency department
   26  conducts a urine test to assist in diagnosing the individual’s
   27  condition, the hospital must include testing for fentanyl in the
   28  urine test.
   29         (b) If the test results are positive for fentanyl, the
   30  hospital must perform laboratory and toxicology screenings.
   31         (c) The results of the urine test and the laboratory and
   32  toxicology screenings must be preserved as part of the patient’s
   33  clinical record for the timeframe required by the hospital’s or
   34  hospital-based off-campus emergency department’s current
   35  clinical recordkeeping practices.
   36         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.