Florida Senate - 2025                             CS for SB 1346
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Health Policy; and Senator Polsky
       
       
       
       
       
       588-02848-25                                          20251346c1
    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 a confirmation test if the urine test
    9         results are positive for fentanyl; requiring that the
   10         results of such tests and screenings be preserved as
   11         part of the patient’s clinical record in accordance
   12         with the facility’s current recordkeeping practices;
   13         providing an effective date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Section 395.1042, Florida Statutes, is created
   18  to read:
   19         395.1042 Fentanyl testing.—
   20         (1) This section may be cited as “Gage’s Law.”
   21         (2)(a) If an individual is treated at a hospital or
   22  hospital-based off-campus emergency department for emergency
   23  services and care for a possible drug overdose or poisoning and
   24  the hospital or hospital-based off-campus emergency department
   25  conducts a urine test to assist in diagnosing the individual’s
   26  condition, the hospital must include testing for fentanyl in the
   27  urine test.
   28         (b) If the test results are positive for fentanyl, the
   29  hospital must perform a confirmation test as defined in s.
   30  440.102(1).
   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.