Florida Senate - 2025                                    SB 1380
       
       
        
       By Senator Arrington
       
       
       
       
       
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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to reproductive health rights;
    3         creating part VI of ch. 760, F.S., entitled
    4         “Reproductive Health Rights”; creating s. 760.901,
    5         F.S.; providing a short title; creating s. 760.902,
    6         F.S.; defining the term “reproductive health care”;
    7         creating s. 760.903, F.S.; providing legislative
    8         findings; providing that every individual has a
    9         fundamental right to make autonomous decisions about
   10         the individual’s own reproductive health; providing
   11         that individuals who become pregnant have a
   12         fundamental right to make certain decisions in
   13         exercise of such right; prohibiting local units of
   14         government from regulating an individual’s ability to
   15         exercise such right in a manner more restrictive than
   16         that set forth in specified provisions; providing an
   17         effective date.
   18          
   19  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   20  
   21         Section 1. Part VI of chapter 760, Florida Statutes,
   22  consisting of ss. 760.901-760.903, Florida Statutes, is created
   23  and entitled “Reproductive Health Rights.”
   24         Section 2. Section 760.901, Florida Statutes, is created to
   25  read:
   26         760.901 Short title.—This part may be cited as the “Protect
   27  Reproductive Options Act.”
   28         Section 3. Section 760.902, Florida Statutes, is created to
   29  read:
   30         760.902 Definition.—As used in this part, the term
   31  “reproductive health care” means health care offered, arranged,
   32  or furnished for the purpose of preventing pregnancy,
   33  terminating a pregnancy, managing pregnancy loss, or improving
   34  maternal health and birth outcomes. The term includes, but is
   35  not limited to, contraception, sterilization, preconception
   36  care, maternity care, abortion care, family planning, and
   37  fertility services, and counseling regarding reproductive health
   38  care.
   39         Section 4. Section 760.903, Florida Statutes, is created to
   40  read:
   41         760.903 Reproductive freedom.—
   42         (1) The State Constitution establishes the principles of
   43  individual liberty, personal privacy, and equality. The
   44  Legislature finds that such principles ensure the fundamental
   45  right to reproductive freedom.
   46         (2) Notwithstanding chapter 390 or any other law to the
   47  contrary:
   48         (a) Every individual has a fundamental right to make
   49  autonomous decisions about the individual’s own reproductive
   50  health, including the fundamental right to use or refuse
   51  reproductive health care.
   52         (b) Every individual who becomes pregnant has a fundamental
   53  right to continue the pregnancy and give birth, or obtain an
   54  abortion, and to make autonomous decisions about how to exercise
   55  this fundamental right.
   56         (3) A local unit of government may not regulate an
   57  individual’s ability to freely exercise the fundamental right to
   58  reproductive freedom in a manner that is more restrictive than
   59  that set forth in this section.
   60         Section 5. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.