Florida Senate - 2025 CS for SB 714 By the Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services; and Senator Burton 603-02535-25 2025714c1 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to nonopioid advance directives; 3 amending s. 765.1103, F.S.; requiring the Department 4 of Health to develop a voluntary nonopioid advance 5 directive form for a specified purpose and make the 6 form available on its website; providing requirements 7 for the form; providing for the valid execution of the 8 form; requiring that the form be filed in the 9 patient’s medical record with the facility or provider 10 of the patient’s choosing; authorizing a patient to 11 revoke the form for any reason, verbally or in 12 writing; providing health care providers with immunity 13 from civil and criminal liability for failing to act 14 in accordance with an advance directive under certain 15 circumstances; providing exceptions; defining the term 16 “medical emergency situation”; providing an effective 17 date. 18 19 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 20 21 Section 1. Subsection (3) is added to section 765.1103, 22 Florida Statutes, to read: 23 765.1103 Pain management and palliative care.— 24 (3)(a) The Department of Health shall develop a voluntary 25 nonopioid advance directive form that allows a person to 26 indicate to a treating health care provider that he or she does 27 not want to be prescribed or administered an opioid drug for 28 pain management or palliative care in the event that he or she 29 should become incapacitated and is unable to personally direct 30 his or her health care. The department shall make the form 31 available on its website. The form must indicate to a treating 32 health care provider that the person may not be prescribed or 33 administered an opioid drug. 34 (b) A valid nonopioid advance directive form must be signed 35 by both the patient and a physician licensed under chapter 458 36 or chapter 459. The form must be filed in the patient’s medical 37 record, either with a health care facility of the patient’s 38 choosing or the patient’s primary care physician, or both, and 39 is transferable to another facility or provider upon the 40 patient’s request. 41 (c) A person may, verbally or in writing, revoke the 42 voluntary nonopioid advance directive form for any reason. 43 (d) A health care provider without actual knowledge of a 44 patient’s nonopioid advance directive form who prescribes, 45 administers, or orders an opioid for the patient in a medical 46 emergency situation is not civilly or criminally liable for 47 failing to act in accordance with the directive unless the act 48 or omission was the result of a provider’s gross negligence or 49 willful misconduct. For purposes of this paragraph, the term 50 “medical emergency situation” includes an emergency medical 51 condition and emergency services and care, as those terms are 52 defined in s. 395.002. 53 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.